Get more details on the newly established Equal Opportunities Units at Egypt’s Planning Ministry

Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, said that equal opportunities between men and women units have been established in the Ministry’s agencies, namely the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMS), the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (NIGSD), the National Planning Institute and the Demographic Center, to be entrusted with achieving equal opportunities for all From men and women within the work environment.
El-Said pointed to the reasons behind the establishment of equal opportunities units, which are represented in the necessity of an institutional framework concerned with following up the implementation of equal opportunities based on the sustainable development strategy and the fifth UN goal on the need for gender equality.“Equal opportunity units were also established because Egypt aims to not discriminate between men and women in all economic, social, and political fields related to the vision of Egypt 2030, the strategy for empowering women, and many articles stipulated in the Egyptian constitution of 2014,” She added.
For her part, Dr. Shaima Siraj, Director of the Equal Opportunities Unit at the Ministry of Planning, affirmed that in light of the Minister of Planning's decision to establish the Equal Opportunities Unit between Men and Women in the Ministry; Coordination and cooperation will take place between that unit and other units that have been established in the subordinate authorities.




Siraj indicated that the next stage will witness taking steps towards simulating the central unit model of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in various affiliated entities, as part of the work to achieve the fifth goal of the sustainable development goals on gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, and in light of Egypt's 2030 vision.The tasks assigned to the equal opportunity units in the entities affiliated with the ministry include preparing databases of the ministry’s employees and its affiliated agencies, classifying them by type and analyzing them, enumerating and studying the problems that any of the workers are exposed to as a result of qualitative discrimination, and proposing solutions to the aforementioned problems.The tasks also include documenting data, information, studies, and research that reflect the reality of working women, working for women to obtain their rights in the field of training, entertainment, and educational programs, as well as working to empower women to reconcile family duties with work requirements.