State's FY 2022/2023 sustainable development plan is linked to the human rights strategy: Planning Minister

Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, reviewed on Tuesday the main features of the draft plan for the fiscal year 22/2023 before the Planning and Budget Committee in the House of Representatives.
Dr. Hala El-Said referred to the role of the investment plan for the fiscal year 22/2023 in implementing the national strategy for human rights, as investments in economic, social, and cultural rights amounted to more than 446 billion pounds.Of these, 69 billion pounds for the right to education, 46 billion pounds for health, 50 billion pounds for the right to work, 57 billion pounds for the right to food, 97 billion pounds for the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and 120 billion pounds for investments to provide adequate housing.
 This is in addition to more than 12 billion pounds for the rights of women, children, people with disabilities, youth, and the elderly.El-Said shed light on the most important spatial development initiatives and programs in the 22/2023 plan, including the "Localization of Sustainable Development Goals" initiative, which aims to address development gaps and discrepancies in development indicators between governorates.El-Said explained that the health and education sectors are the priority sectors in this initiative, noting the initiative "Incentives for Excellence in Public Investment Management at the local level, which aims to encourage governorates to adopt international best practices in the field of planning, follow-up, performance evaluation, public expenditure management, and developing Work systems in the local administration. 
The total cost of this initiative is 1.7 billion Egyptian pounds.

In the context of gender-responsive planning, El-Said indicated that the general plan (22/2023) aims to direct 10 billion pounds to integrate the social dimension into development plans, to achieve equality and equal opportunities among social groups, and to serve priority issues for women, children, and people of determination.

 Among the most important targeted projects is the provision of primary health care for EGP 5.1 billion, in addition to establishing 20 centers for productive families, 10 pediatric hospitals, 23 children’s culture houses, and 3,000 nurseries, in addition to developing pediatric and women’s health hospitals.

Dr. Hala El-Said referred to the most important programs and projects in the telecommunications sector in the plan for the year 22/2023, which is to develop cooperation programs with companies and international organizations and to establish a unified national network for emergency services and advanced public safety, at 2.4 billion pounds.

It also includes the most important programs and projects in the telecommunications sector with the plan for the year 22/2023, a project to raise the efficiency of the use of the Internet and link networks in the state’s administrative apparatus at 1.5 billion pounds, automating the technological infrastructure in the administrative apparatusRegarding the electricity sector, El-Said explained that the plan aims to complete strategic projects to support the national electricity network and secure electrical nutrition for economic and social development projects with investments amounting to 6.4 billion pounds, referring to the national project to replace overhead lines with ground cables, and works to transfer and transfer facilities that conflict with the national project. to develop roads.

El-Said pointed to the most important green projects in the sustainable development plan for the fiscal year 22/2023, whose financial appropriations amount to 336 billion pounds, including 300 billion pounds for the transportation sector, 26.4 billion pounds for the irrigation sector, 4.5 billion pounds for housing, and 2, 8 billion pounds for local development, and 2.4 billion pounds for the electricity sector, explaining the development of the percentage of green public investments from 15% in 20/2021 to 30% in 21/2022, and it is targeted to reach 40% in 22/2023.