This book is interesting as it involves different and the most important decentralization initiatives in Egypt between the year 1994 and 2011. These are great initiatives that have started, but it is important that they should remain continuing and also sustainable. Therefore, a presentation of each of the four main initiatives is demonstrated and also positive and negative points in the chosen projects is highlighted. All in all, this work is considerd to be a manuscript in form of a review of the most important and recent decentralization and local development initiatives, in Egypt.