The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development participates in a workshop to survey the characteristics of the local community in the villages of "a Decent Life"

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, represented by Dr. Jamil Helmy, Assistant Minister for Follow-up Affairs of the Sustainable Development Plan, participated in a workshop organized by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), to discuss the preliminary results of a survey of the characteristics of the local community in the villages of the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Rural "Decent Life".During the workshop, Helmy stressed the importance of the surveys conducted by (CAPMAS), especially as they provide a comprehensive update of the development situation in the targeted villages for a "Decent Life" and the services and development projects available therein.The General Supervisor of " Decent Life" at the Ministry of Planning stated that the ministry made available a file for each village that includes all the details of the projects and interventions being implemented for researchers in the Statistics Authority to be a reference to verify the accuracy of the monitoring data. Helmy stressed the need to form a working group that includes representatives of the executive bodies, especially the sectors of education, health, drinking water, sanitation, and roads, to cooperate with researchers in completing the data, as well as the need for the survey to include the nature of each project and the final exit for it and the person responsible for it in all the villages of “a decent life.”.Helmy reviewed the features of the presidential project and its objectives in all pillars, which include improving the quality of human and social development services, infrastructure, and urbanization, as well as economic development, job creation, and the expansion of welfare and social protection services. Helmy pointed out that the data issued by the electronic system for following up on the "Decent Life" project indicates that the cost of "Decent Life" projects in the 14 villages covered by the survey is approximately EGP 4 billion. The projects include all services (educational, health, youth, and sports, drinking water and sewage, development of post offices, communications, natural gas delivery, etc.), benefiting more than 375,000 citizens.

It is noteworthy that the initial survey experiment included 14 villages at the level of 11 governorates (Assiut, Minya, Sohag, Qena, Beheira, Giza, Dakahlia, Sharkia, Menoufia, Gharbia, Qalyubia), carried out by 14 researchers and 14 reviewers over three continuous days.