During her speech at the launch of the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family: Egypt’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development: The project aims to build people and improve the characteristics of the population

El-Said: $400 billion have been allocated to improve the quality of life of the Egyptian citizen during the period from June 2014 to June 2021

Cairo on February 28, 2022
H.E. Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, said that the national project for the development of the Egyptian family enjoys unprecedented political support, as H.E. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held several meetings to follow up on the preparation of the project and directed the mobilization of resources for its implementation.El-Said explained that through this project, the population issue is managed from a comprehensive development perspective to improve the population characteristics.She further noted that for the first time the state relies on economic activities to empower women in managing this issue. The project also includes a program for deferred positive incentives to change the motives of women to increase childbearing. The project also included adding a digital intervention axis for smart access to target groups, raising the efficiency of the follow-up and evaluation process, and ensuring the sustainability of various activities, according to El-Said El-Said emphasized that the project focuses in its various pillars on providing positive incentives, which is consistent with the project's goal of achieving comprehensive human development and improving the quality of life for the Egyptian person.This came during her speech today at the launch of the national project for the development of the Egyptian family, with the presence of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.El-Said pointed to the state's efforts to improve the quality of life for citizens, as the volume of projects implemented during the period from June 30, 2014, to June 30, 2021, amounted to $400 billion.


 El-Said explained that the general strategic objective of the Egyptian family development plan is to improve the quality of life of citizens by controlling population growth and improving population characteristics. The plan includes several axes represented in the axis of economic empowerment, the axis of service intervention: reproductive health services, the axis of cultural, awareness, and educational intervention, the axis of digital transformation and follow-up and evaluation (KPIs), in addition to the axis of legislative interventions.El-Said referred to the target groups of the family development plan, which are women from the age of 18-45, young people (males - females), university and school students, those who are about to marry, both sexes, and rural communities. El-Said noted that the first phase of the project will be implemented following the initiative for a decent life in 52 centers in the governorates of the Republic.On the economic empowerment axis, El-Said explained that it includes economic empowerment of women in the age group from 18 to 45 years to achieve financial independence through training 2 million women in project management and financial education, in addition to implementing one million small projects and establishing production units. As for the service intervention axis, it includes reducing women’s unmet need for reproductive health methods and making them available free of charge to all through the training and settlement of 1,500 female doctors, cooperation with 400 NGOs to provide reproductive health services, in addition to equipping mobile service centers, as well as providing food baskets, the 1000-day program first in a child's life.About the cultural, awareness, and educational axis, El-Said said that it consists in raising citizens’ awareness of the basic concepts of the population issue and the social and economic effects of the population increase, using drama and television, field activities in villages, awareness activities and storytelling workshops for children, the role of clergy, activities in cooperation with schools and universities, courses For those who are about to get married.El-Said referred to the axis of digital transformation, which is represented in the mechanization and linking of all services provided to the Egyptian family to provide all data and information for the National Family Development Project, as well as making sure that the project is managed efficiently and achieving the desired goals by building the Egyptian family system to link the family development unit database with all databases of different initiatives. 
This is in addition to building a system of follow-up and evaluation of the national project for the development of the Egyptian family to carry out continuous monitoring of all demographic characteristics at the level of the Republic.El-Said referred to the deferred savings document, which is a program of deferred financial incentives for women, provided that the controls that achieve the project's objectives are adhered to.The program is implemented for all married women (recent or existing marriages) who have two children at most, and it is stipulated that the age of women when joining the program is not less than 21 years and not more than 40 years.El-Said also discussed the material incentive program - the insurance policy, where insurance benefits are disbursed to women at the age of 45 years, provided that several controls are adhered to, represented in having two children at most, in addition to periodic visits to family development clinics, in addition to periodic examinations for breast cancer and non-communicable diseases.El-Said concluded her speech by emphasizing that development results and positive indicators cannot be sustained in isolation from population policies.