Egypt’s Ministry of Planning & Economic Development launches a guide to strategic management in the government’s administrative apparatus

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development has launched the second edition of the strategic management guide for the Egyptian state's administrative apparatus.

Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, explained that the guideline for strategic management prepared by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development comes within the framework of efforts to develop the planning and development process and ensure the effectiveness of the planning process and its outputs.

 El-Said pointed out that the guide deals with the institutional framework for the work of the strategic management in terms of the main tasks, competencies, and expected outputs, adding that the guide also reviews the organizational sub-divisions included in the strategic management.

El-Said said that the strategic management helps the heads of the various units to develop a future vision and strategies to achieve that vision to achieve the unit’s tasks within the framework of Egypt’s Vision 2030, as well as the government’s work program, and to follow up on the policies and programs necessary to activate that strategy.

On his part, Khaled Mustafa, Permanent Representative of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, said that the strategic management guide launched by the ministry sheds light on the competencies and specialized technical, leadership, and personal skills necessary to fill vacant jobs.
“ Believing in the importance of having qualified and professional cadres, the guide singles out a set of training programs in various fields of strategic management competence to reach efficient and effective management that contributes to achieving the objectives of the strategic unit,” Mustafa said.

Mustafa stressed that the guide comes within the framework of the role of the strategic management of the Ministry of Planning in providing technical support to all units of the state's administrative apparatus in the areas of strategic management.

This is in light of the Prime Minister’s Resolution No. 1146 of 2018 regarding the creation of 6 new organizational divisions in the units of the state’s administrative apparatus, and the decision of the Head of the Central Agency for Organization and Administration No. 86 of 2019 regarding the creation of an organizational division for strategic management in the units of the state’s administrative apparatus.