Egypt’s Planning Minister reviews the features of the "Citizen Investment Plan" in Minya Governorate for FY 20/2021

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development announced the features of the “Citizen Investment Plan” in Minya Governorate for the fiscal year 20/2021, as part of the continuation of announcing the citizen’s plan in all governorates of Egypt for the second year in a row, intending to activate community participation and involve citizens in planning and follow-up.

Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development explained that the “citizen’s plan” includes the most prominent features of the sustainable development plan for the fiscal year 20/2021, at the national level, and the most important economic indicators for each governorate represented in the gross domestic product, the real growth rate, the unemployment rate and the number of employed.

El-Said added that the "Citizen Plan" is based on evidence-based planning, by making use of databases and performance measurement indicators in all developmental areas in the 27 governorates of Egypt, in a way that ensures bridging development gaps between the different governorates.

On the citizens' investment plan in Minya Governorate, El-Said indicated that the number of development projects in the governorate reaches 327 projects and that the value of public investments directed to Minya Governorate in the 2021/2021 plan is EGP 4.1 billion, an increase of 10.8% over the 2019/2020 plan. It represents 1.6% of distributed public investment.

 

 

 

 

About the sectorial distribution of public investments targeted in the Minya governorate in the 2021/2021 plan, El-Said pointed to directing investments worth EGP 1.4 billion to the housing sector and slum development at a rate of 34%.

“The local development sector is allocated investments worth EGP 604.7 million, or 14.7%., while the transport sector is allocated EGP 547.4 million or 13.4%,” El-Said explained.

The higher education sector will receive EGP 455 million, at a rate of 11.1%, while the pre-university sector will receive EGP 312.4 million, at a rate of 7.6%, in addition to directing EGP 570.5 million to other sectors, by 19.2%.

The report of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development stated that the most important development targets in the housing sector and the development of informal settlements in Minya Governorate in the 2021/20 Plan are to direct about EGP 858.2 million to drinking water and sanitation services, in addition to directing EGP 117.5 million to social housing projects.

The reports indicated that in the pre-university education sector, the most important development goals are to establish 105 schools with a total of 1,490 classrooms, pointing to the local development programs in the governorate represented in the program of extending and strengthening electricity networks and lighting equipment.

 

The report referred to the features of the “Decent Life” Initiative in Minya Governorate, where the volume of the initiative’s investments in the governorate amounted to EGP 734 million, and the number of beneficiary villages is 25 villages, the number of beneficiaries reached 310,000 citizens, and the most important sectors benefiting from the initiative are sanitation, transportation, irrigation (filtering canals).