Deputy Minister of Planning, Fayoum Governor discuss SDGs indicators’ report for the governorate

Dr. Ahmed Al-Ansari, Governor of Fayoum, and Dr. Ahmed Kamali, Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Development, discussed the report on sustainable development indicators to achieve Egypt’s Vision 2030.The session dealt with a presentation of the indicators of the sustainable development report - issued by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development - on services in the Fayoum governorate, the goals of sustainable development, the pillars of the "Egypt 2030" vision, and the criteria for evaluating the level of performance in some service and development sectors to determine the indicators in terms of rising and fall.The session also dealt with a discussion with officials of the executive body, to determine the mechanisms for applying the indicators, the most important problems and challenges facing sustainable development and achieving its goal, working to reduce poverty and unemployment, confronting the marriage of relatives and minors, implementing literacy programs, health and family planning, and violence against women, child labor, and mechanisms to combat illegal immigration.At the beginning of the session, the Governor of Fayoum welcomed the Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Development, stressing the importance of constructive cooperation between the governorate and the ministry, to achieve sustainable development goals following the "Egypt Vision 2030" for the benefit of the Fayoumi citizen.


 The Governor of Fayoum referred to the importance of settling the sustainable development goals on the ground, through actual indicators and criteria, which are in line with the standards of the United Nations Population Fund, as Egypt is one of the leading countries in signing the sustainable development goals, pointing out that defining the sustainable development goals comes through an integrated series according to a scientific methodology and a clear vision.The governor added that the idea of ​​sustainable development comes on two pillars, one of which is spatial development and the other of human development, through transparency, justice, and equality, in providing services and providing facilities to citizens within a framework of human dignity.The governor of Fayoum explained that the development indicators on the governorate’s land change from year to year for the better, according to the efforts made in various sectors to provide a decent life for citizens, especially in the centers of Itsa and Youssef Al-Siddiq, because they are within the first phase of the presidential initiative “Dignified Life” to develop the Egyptian countryside.The Governor of Fayoum stressed the need to review the data of the sustainable development report for the governorate, determine its tracks and study its indicators carefully to determine the reasons for its decline in some sectors, work scientifically and target the active groups to raise the level of the report, in addition to work and participatory planning and review and follow-up the implementation level from time to time to determine the location of the governorate on the development map.For his part, Dr. Ahmed Kamali, Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Development, thanked the Governor of Fayoum for the warm reception, his constructive support, and his active participation in discussing the development indicators report on the governorate’s land, noting that the Fayoum Governor attached great importance to the governorate’s sustainable development report, after receiving it from Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development.Dr. Ahmed Kamali added that the data is of great importance in determining the real indicators of the report, according to the efforts being monitored to upgrade the sectors on the ground, to determine the vision of each governorate according to its needs.Kamali explained that the state is working through a scientific methodology to set the real indicators of development for each of the governorates of the republic, which helps to draw plans to bridge the development gaps. Kamali pointed out that the development indicators report will be prepared annually and monitored objectively through actual numbers, and work in parallel with the projects of the presidential initiative "Decent Life" to benefit all parts of the governorate and work to make Fayoum Governorate the first governorate that prepared a voluntary report on development indicators on her land.


During the session, some executive branch officials reviewed some of the challenges, including health, education, literacy, family planning and reproductive health, agriculture and irrigation, illegal immigration, women's empowerment, early marriage, unemployment, and self-employment.