Egypt Award for Gov't Excellence holds a workshop for representatives of service units at the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade

The Egypt Award for Gov't Excellence held a workshop for representatives of service units in 18 governorates affiliated with the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade on the award’s processes and criteria, at the Ministry’s general office. The organization of the workshop comes within the framework of Egypt Award for Gov't Excellence’s keenness to spread the culture of excellence and institutional development, to make a qualitative leap in institutional performance, and consolidate the principles and values of excellence in the state’s sectors during its journey towards government excellence.Brigadier Khaled Sharaf, Assistant Minister of Supply for Planning, Development, Financial and Administrative Affairs, praised the efforts of the award administration to spread a culture of excellence and keenness on continuous communication and coordination during the various stages of the award.
 Sharaf stressed the importance of the continuation of the service sectors in the ministry in maintaining the march of government excellence.During the workshop, Ms. Soha Said, Executive Director of the Award presented an overview of the dimensions and axes of Egypt's Vision 2030, which are consistent with the vision, mission, and objectives of the Award. She referred to the different categories of the award and the stages of its implementation, in addition to highlighting the 100% electronic transformation witnessed in the second cycle for all applications and evaluation processes, which contributed significantly to reducing the percentage of exclusions to 14% instead of 39% in the first cycle.Said explained that experts from Egypt, the UAE, Jordan, and other nationalities participated in the evaluation, and the arbitration process was carried out through an independent committee from the Emirates.

On the achievements of the second session; Said explained that it included 19 categories, for which more than 2,000 applications were submitted, while 4 new categories were created, including the best government employee, the best work team, the best health office, and the best catering office.The Executive Director of the Egypt Award for Gov't Excellence indicated that the award's operations operate within a framework of transparency, cooperation, perfection, and access to added value. She further reviewed the stages of the evaluation process, and the evidence of criteria for the Distinguished Unity Award in providing government services, which are based on the main pillars and criteria of the government excellence system.Ms. Mona Abdel-Nabi, the Institutional Awards Officer at the award, reviewed the role of the ambassadors of excellence in the participating bodies and the importance of recognizing and disseminating the concepts of government excellence and system standards in the organization, with clarification of the mechanisms for forming the excellent team and preparing a timetable for implementing the standards.