Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation Reviews Sectoral Investment Targets in the Development Plan for the Next Fiscal Year

327 billion Egyptian pounds in public investments directed to the health, education, scientific research, and other services sectors in the 2025/2026 plan.

86 billion Egyptian pounds in public investments for the health sector and 63.4 billion Egyptian pounds for the educational services sector.

The plan aims to establish 17.3 thousand new classrooms, develop 1851 existing schools, and rehabilitate, replace, and renovate 12.5 thousand classrooms in pre-university education.

Incentivizing private sector participation in establishing technical education schools and accelerating digital transformation in the educational process.

Plan to develop technical education: 536 new classrooms and 10 technological schools to meet labor market needs.

We are working on developing a comprehensive and integrated vision for the executive plan of the second phase of the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family.

 

 

H.E. Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation, reviewed the sectoral features of the 2025/2026 plan, highlighting the plan's directions in achieving the dimensions of sectoral development, during the House of Representatives session today, chaired by H.E. Counselor Dr. Hanafy Gebaly, and in the presence of the esteemed members of the Council.

 

In her speech, H.E. Dr. Al-Mashat affirmed that the fundamental goal of development efforts is to build the Egyptian person. Therefore, the plan has been intended to give utmost importance to consolidating the dimensions of human development by directing a significant proportion of total investments to identify and develop health and educational services and make them available to all citizens in various regions of the Republic. This aims to reduce qualitative and spatial gaps and continue to improve Egypt's position in the global Human Development Index.

 

 

Public Investments in the Health, Education, and Scientific Research Sectors

 

H.E. Minister Al-Mashat added that the 2025/2026 development plan directs public investments amounting to approximately 327 billion Egyptian pounds to the health, education, scientific research, and other services sectors.

As the primary goal of development efforts is to build the Egyptian person, the development plan has been focused to give utmost importance to consolidating the dimensions of human development by directing a significant proportion of total investments to modernize and develop health and educational services and make them available to all citizens in various regions of the Republic. This aims to reduce qualitative and spatial gaps and continue to improve the indicators of human development, the index of which has gradually increased from 0.706 in 2015 to 0.75 in 2023/2024.

 

Regarding the improvement of the health and education system, the Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation affirmed that approximately 85.6 billion Egyptian pounds have been allocated as public investments for the health sector and 63.4 billion Egyptian pounds for the educational services sector, and about 178 billion Egyptian pounds for other social services.

The state's general budget contributes to the financing with approximately 219 billion Egyptian pounds, equivalent to two-thirds of the total investments directed to these three sectors, emphasizing the importance of investing in human capital development as a driving force for the advancement of the Egyptian person and enhancing their effectiveness in embarking on the path of sustainable development.

 

H.E. Dr. Al-Mashat pointed to the pre-university education sector, where the plan includes the establishment of 17.3 thousand new classrooms, the development of 1851 existing schools, and the rehabilitation, replacement, and renovation of 12.5 thousand classrooms.

The development plan aims to improve existing schools and provide new classrooms to reduce classroom density and expand the provision of education services, especially in the most needy areas, and to direct investments to basic education schools, particularly in the governorates of Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, and Fayoum, in addition to expanding educational buildings.

The plan's directions included increasing attention to qualifying schools for quality, committing to the implementation of the plan to appoint 150,000 teachers, as well as activating literacy programs, especially in governorates with high illiteracy rates, and expanding the establishment of nurseries.

 

H.E. Minister Al-Mashat reiterated that in the field of technical education, the plan aims to establish 536 new classrooms, rehabilitate and renovate about 902 classrooms, and develop and rehabilitate 126 existing schools. In addition, it includes the application of competencies and the establishment of 10 applied technological schools.

H.E. Dr. Al-Mashat pointed out that the plan aims to encourage partnership with the private sector to establish these schools in order to meet the labor market's needs for this specialized type of school graduates, as well as accelerating the digital transformation that supports the educational process due to its great importance in developing students' skills, in addition to continuing to develop curricula to improve the quality of school education outcomes and develop students' abilities in innovation and creativity.

Regarding the field of university and higher education, H.E. Minister Al-Mashat added that the 2025/2026 plan includes the completion of educational building and university city projects in 29 public universities, the provision of workshop and laboratory equipment in 12 technological universities, and the completion of electronic examinations in Egyptian universities.

This stems from the aim to improve the quality of higher education and increase the international competitiveness of Egyptian universities, in light of increasing the competitiveness of higher education by developing a package of investment incentives encouraging the private sector to invest in establishing more private universities, particularly with the achievement of high accessibility rates in public and national universities, and increasing attention to projects for qualifying Egyptian public universities to obtain quality and increase international competitiveness, which contributes to increasing exports of education services and increasing the number of universities listed in international rankings.

 

 

Advancing Health Services

 

The Minister pointed to the public investments directed towards the advancement of health services, estimated at about 86 billion Egyptian pounds in the 2025/2026 plan, including an increase in investments funded by the public treasury by more than 87%.

The main projects targeted by the plan include the completion of 47 health and university hospitals, including 41 health hospitals and 6 university hospitals, with completion rates exceeding 70% in preparation for their entry into service. These include 15 hospitals for therapeutic care, 10 hospitals for the first phase of the comprehensive health insurance, 4 hospitals for the second phase of the comprehensive health insurance in the governorates of Matrouh, Minya, North Sinai, 3 hospitals under the General Authority for Specialized Medical Centers, and 3 psychiatric hospitals.

 

H.E. Dr. Al-Mashat added that the implementation of 17 Egyptian family development centers, 9 health units, and the plasma center in Sohag Governorate has also been completed. This is in addition to completing the development and equipping of 75 therapeutic care hospitals, 50 hospitals affiliated with the General Authority for Specialized Medical Centers, 27 psychiatric health authority hospitals, and 11 plasma centers.

The initiation of 10 model hospitals, including 2 hospitals in Minya and Kafr El-Sheikh, is also underway, alongside the implementation of 172 projects in the field of developing university hospitals, completing their automation, and completing the development and equipping of medical centers and units, such as completing the central laboratories building in Badr City, the medical city at Nasser Institute, developing control centers, and equipping the unified national network for emergencies and public safety.

The Minister confirmed the plan's target to enhance the accessibility of health services by increasing the rates of doctors per 10,000 people and the rate of hospital beds available, with special attention directed to the development and generalization of the primary healthcare sector and preventive medicine departments, as well as continuing the effective implementation of the national comprehensive health insurance program in the remaining governorates of the Republic.

 

In the field of sports services, H.E. Minister Al-Mashat outlined that the plan aims to expand the establishment of youth facilities and develop 156 youth centers, as well as establish and develop 10 youth cities, 6 youth camps, 4 youth development centers, 3 civil education centers, 3 scouting facilities, 5 youth forums, and 2 youth hostels. This is in addition to expanding the establishment of sports facilities by constructing and developing 28 playgrounds, developing 8 stadiums, 53 clubs in addition to 9 clubs for people with special needs, 4 sports cities, 18 swimming pools, 2 sports medicine hospitals, and 9 sports medicine units.

 

 

The National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family

 

H.E. Minister Al-Mashat touched on the high importance the government attaches to continuing the implementation of the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family with its integrated developmental axes and dimensions, which include women's economic empowerment, service intervention, cultural, awareness, and educational intervention, digital transformation, monitoring and evaluation, and legislative intervention, within the framework of managing the population issue according to a comprehensive developmental perspective.

 

H.E. Dr. Al-Mashat explained that the efforts to implement the project in its first phase (2021-2024) resulted in approximately 28 million citizens benefiting from the project's services until October 2024. The percentage of beneficiaries from the cultural and awareness intervention axis reached 66%, while 31.5% benefited from the economic empowerment axis interventions.

This resulted in a noticeable improvement in demographic indicators, including a decrease in the population growth rate from 1.9% in 2018 to 1.4% in 2024, as well as a decrease in the annual number of births from 2.5 million births in 2018 to 1.97 million in 2024. The lowest population growth rate in Egypt during the first quarter of 2025 was recorded at 1.34%, compared to about 1.4% in the corresponding quarter of 2024 and 1.6% in the same quarter of 2023.

 

H.E. Minister Al-Mashat emphasized that the Ministry is currently working on developing a comprehensive and integrated vision for the executive plan of the second phase of the project, setting measurable targets and indicators that are consistent with national and sectoral strategies such as Egypt's Vision 2030, the government's work program, relevant presidential initiatives, Egypt's partnership frameworks with development partners, and the Sustainable Development Goals.