LCHR's Organizational Structure

The Land Center for Human Rights is a non-governmental organization was established as a civilian non-profit in 1996, and the Center's mission is to help strengthen and enhance the small farmers and workers in agriculture to be able to rely on themselves and to achieve the Center works to strengthen the rule of law and the legal and social equality, monitoring, documenting and studying the situation of the Egyptian countryside and educating the rural population of their rights. The center consists of two bodies: the first Board of Trustees, an advisory body for the session five years may not be any renewal of its members for more than two consecutive terms or apart and another executive committee and the daily work and planning for the Centre and implement a plan of activity.
The center holds a meeting every month to the heads of the units place in addition to the Director of the Center, and provides official of each unit report a simplified on the achievements and problems and constraints and how their solutions will also hold a monthly meeting of the Working Group to assess the performance of the center and planning and to overcome obstacles and solve problems related activities, and evaluation shall be conducted primarily at the activity plans, annual The projected monthly and stomach before the start of the year. And through the provision of an official of each unit a detailed report including the activities, results and advantages and obstacles to the Executive Director presents in the periodic meetings of heads of units, the solution to these problems, overcome obstacles and official of each unit follow-up of his staff and evaluate their performance and make observations on this performance. In the event of differences between the official unit and a working command displays the Executive Director to resolve the problem. And take into account all the staff of the center, the general rules for the management of the Centre, as well as the rules for financial and administrative policy, is also committed to the rules governing lawyers for their work, contained in the Regulations.
1. General rules for the management of the Centre:
- The relationship between the Executive Director and the various units is through officials of the units.
- The unit responsible for the right to make decisions that will conduct the work within the unit.
- The complexity of the Legal Unit weekly meeting for the distribution of legal work for members of the unit and follow-up to previous work and discuss the problems faced by employees, and hold each of the Documentation Unit and the administrative unit meeting each month to discuss the problems and obstacles and develop solutions to it and to the Executive Director to participate in these meetings.
- The various units of the annual activity plans to submit these plans to the Executive Director no later than early October of each year, and the different exposure scenarios for workers in meetings for discussion during the month of November for approval.
- In case of dissolution or termination status strongly determines the law center's director or his representative shall transfer the assets of the center to a human rights organization concerned with economic and social rights.
- The Center shall maintain all documents and files related to his activities at its headquarters, and is entitled to after the end of the activity to get rid of these documents, and launched by the same rule applies to the case files that were saved.
2. - Financial and administrative policies for the Land Centre:
There are a number of financial and administrative points and policies of the Centre including:
- The Secretary of the Treasury does disbursement only after the adoption of the financial officer of the amounts to be disbursed by selecting the amount disbursed.
- At the end of each day the Secretary of the Treasury is to prepare detection for the movement of the treasury, and are reviewed every month and approved by the Director of the Center, and the facility must be a disclosure of all documents supporting the payment.
- Be recorded detect the movement of the treasury daily treasury book, but for the transitions of workers are preparing a request custody and adoption of the financial officer to settle these amounts at the end of each month.
- The lawyers at the end of each month prepare a statement analytical litigation and the supporting documents attached to it.
- The statement after the adoption of analytical and logistical litigation and attached documents supporting the payment is a settlement with the Managing Director and the amount paid after approval by the Executive Director.
3 – Treasury:
- Supervised by the responsible administrative unit associate.
- The amount of cash shall not exceed 1000 pounds. And the centre manager is required to complete the amount after spending.
4 - Salaries and bonuses:
- Lawyers are given rewards according to the contracts concluded with them, and the workers union management are given a monthly salary and shall be the obligation and not to loss of time and effort for all employees, and paid an incentive for the performance of each worker, but due appreciation to the Director, must not increase the incentive more than the basic salary should be incentives to adopt all of the director of the center before discharge and disposal of increment for each worker over the year to the beginning of his place on the premium shall not exceed 15% of his basic wage.
- All staff of the center commitment to attend and leave on a daily basis and regular to be the official working hours, from 9 am to 3 pm except on Friday and Saturday and public holidays, taking into account that the weekly working hours are 42 hours and calculated work hours increase paid extra.
- For researchers and part-time workers from abroad do not meet the rules of engagement to attend and leave due to the voluntary nature of their work.
- Days of absence will be deducted and the delay of salary for the administrative unit to be deducted each day the absence of two days of basic pay or a bonus monthly.
- Depending on the nature and size of the error to start the sanctions of the blame, warning and deduction of salary, leave without pay, and terminating sanctions the separation taking into account the delivery worker dismissed bonus estimated at two months bonus for each year, and shall be signed by the Director Center for any penalty issued against a staff, but in the case of desire worker to leave work for personal reasons must inform the management of the Centre before at least two months to receive a month bonus for each year, and in the case of leaving the work without briefing center knowing that he does not deserve any reward referred to earlier, and the Centre may sue him if there was a breach of committed a grave before he left work.
- In case of failure of any of the employees work assigned to them are entitled to director of the center so as not affected by the activity plan and objectives that the initiative taken for the implementation of these actions, whether based on some of the staff of the center or by relying on workers from abroad, or volunteers, in addition to the appropriate punishment for the error factor.
5 - The workers' duties:
- Must place the worker to lead the work assigned to him carefully and conscientiously, and that the role of himself perfectly.
- The worker is to devote time to act for the performance of official duties may be assigned by the management of the Centre or the unit administrator to work in the non-working hours if the interest of this work.
- The worker must improve the treatment of visitors to the Centre and the decent treatment of humane treatment.
- The worker is to maintain the property and funds of the Centre and the unit works and observance, maintenance and all the tools and hardware ... etc.
- The worker must collaborate with colleagues in all units in the performance of urgent tasks necessary to ensure the workflow.
- The worker must not disclose any secret of the center of one of the files or cases or reports.
- The worker at the center is prohibited to accept any gifts or remuneration or commission on the occasion of his work inside the unit from any of the visitors to the center or the beneficiaries of its activities.
- The violation of any item of the liable to disciplinary sanctions contained is considered an offense which attracts punishment.
- The financial rules do not apply to administrative staff or volunteers from abroad, and apply to them, the provisions of the contract agreement signed between the Centres, including with respect to the type of work and duration agreed not entitled to claim the center of any dues other than the specific contract agreement between them and the center.
6 - Job description:
The center is divided by its terms of reference and the role of each member to the following:
- Board of Trustees:
Is the advisory body to the center for its five years should be changed after two periods of its formation does not count the first period as a temporary foundation and the Director of the Center to provide annual reports to it and took her opinion, is the Executive Director is the liaison between the Center and in the absence of selection of the Board of Trustees for the current session 2012 --2,016 the director of the center will follow the work of this body with some friends of the center.
- Executive Director:
Is the link between the staff of the center and the coordinators of units to each other and the Executive Director continue to work day units and overcome obstacles that would conduct the work and achieve the goals of the center, as he planned with the coordinators of units of activity and objectives of each unit and how to implement those activities, and director of the center represent the Centre at international forums and local has the right to choose who's intent in this regard.
- Legal Unit:
The unit involved in the provision of legal proceedings before the courts and various points of the investigation, the Unit is composed of lawyers, or full-time employees or volunteers from abroad, and works to support the rights of peasants, workers, women and children of workers and the agricultural sector and fishermen. The unit shall arrange for the complaints and violations under its Documentation Unit, which are handed over to the legal unit on a daily basis in the event of a sudden violation of human rights or for farmers, fishermen and workers.
- Research and Documentation Unit:
Unity means the preparation and follow up reports issued by the Center and its researchers through volunteers, and the unit follow-up activities in the field of studies issued by the. As well as dealing with the unit to save the Centre's information retrieval and organization is interested in classification and indexing of the library and the responsibility of distribution of books and magazine and reports in addition to the classification of the archive.
The unit also documented and the order information and the problems of workers, peasants, women, children and fishermen.
The Unit issued press releases and pamphlets of the center, which reflects the situation of farmers and rural Egypt. The Unit also monitors the implementation of workshops, seminars and training courses The Centre in the different villages.
- International Relations Unit:
The Unit is building a network of relations with international non-governmental organizations, trade unions, peasant, labor and international exchange of experiences, skills and participation in international activities of common interest, also follows the activities of the commissions of the United Nations and the organization to participate in its work.
- Administration Unit:
Unit will work the administrative management of the daily work of the center and receive the cases and maintenance headquarters and send and receive faxes and compile notes and issues lawyers and follow the work of printing and the purchase of office equipment and communications center and e-mail, and distribution of reports and publications center and supervising the implementation of the activity plan and annual follow-up to this website, and follow-up translation Some reports, newsletters, workshops, and management of daily exchange and arrange meetings daily for the researchers and lawyers and new work daily, and will by the accountant to review the movement of the Treasury and the processing and review of salaries and transitions month for staff and budget preparation and preparation of the financial assessment each year, the annual budget for the Centre and an inventory of the contents and belongings and furniture of the center.