Economic and social impacts of haya karima initiative as one of social protection mechanisms for rural residents in one of villages, Mutobas District, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

The research mainly aimed to study the economic and social impacts of the Haya Karima initiative as one of mechanisms of social protection on rural people in one of villages, Mutobas district, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, by identifying projects that were implemented in village, standing on extent to which respondents were affected by economic and social returns of those projects, identifying level of respondents' satisfaction with these projects, determining the relationship between degree of respondents' satisfaction with these projects and some of their personal characteristics. Mutobas district was chosen to conduct the research, as it is only district in which Haya Karima initiative was implemented in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate in the first phase, a random manner, village (Ezab El-Gharb) was chosen. questionnaire form after conducting an initial test on it, and some statistical methods such as frequencies, percentages, and chi-square test were used to analyze data. The most prominent results were that two most important projects were implemented in village and village was in dire need of them according to opinion of respondents: (sanitation project, natural gas project), and that the largest percentage of sample (60.7%, 55.6%) was affected in a moderate degree with economic returns and social returns, respectively, for projects implemented in village through Haya Karima initiative. Almost half of respondents (46.1%) are completely satisfied with has been accomplished projects of Haya Karima initiative, and there is a significant correlation between (gender, age, level of education, occupation, family type) and degree of satisfaction of respondents with implemented projects in village through Haya Karima initiative.