Hala Al-Saeed: Egypt is keen to achieve sustainable development through its cooperation with Arab partners

Hala Al-Saeed: Egypt is keen to achieve sustainable development through its cooperation with Arab partners

Dr. Hala Al-SaeedMinister of Planning and Economic Development, stressed that Egypt is keen toachieve sustainable development, through its cooperation and exchange of experiences with all partners from Arab countries. This came during a speech by “the doctor” at the activities of the Arab Sustainability Day at theArab League yesterday, which comes to be a media engine to form an ideal and correct image of the concepts of sustainability, and to learn about the achievements of the Arab countries in achieving theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs)and their goals.

In a related context, Al-Saeed added that Arab cooperation is of great importance, which is now more evident than ever before, as the importance of establishing effective partnerships towards achieving comprehensive sustainable development that maximizes the benefit of Arab potentials and responds to the aspirations of our peoples clearly emerges, at a difficult time in which the world, especially our Arab region, is witnessing various circumstances and variables, including economic, social and political ones, which impose more major challenges on our Arab countries, in addition to negatively affecting the efforts made by By governments to achieve sustainable development, especially with the unprecedented and ongoing health and economic crises of the Corona virus pandemic, and the subsequent outbreak of the geopolitical crisis. This is because of theRussian War.

In the context of her speech, she explained that these crises have become difficult and obstruct the path of countries towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as the financing gap has grown in light of the large shortfall in the amount of financing available globally, especially with the additional challenges faced by the health, education and technological infrastructure sectors, in addition to environmental issues and what countries need to build broad financial stimulus packages, which is considered one of the most important pillars of countries’ efforts to confront the repercussions of the pandemic and achieve recovery.

It also highlighted the need for this Arab forum to provide the opportunity to exchange dialogue and experiences between representatives of governments, the private sector, civil society, women, youth and the media, in addition to universities, specialized research centers and Arab, regional and international organizations, as everyone seeks to enhance and develop cooperation in order to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and try to work to find solutions and provide useful treatments for development issues and challenges in the Arab region.

“The Doctor” concluded her speech by noting that the Ministry is working with the “Information and Decision Support Center” in the Council of Ministers, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, and the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, in completing a project to develop the first index of the competitiveness of Egyptian governorates, as this index was designed to be a solid and supportive tool to ensure the effectiveness of policies and improve development performance,

Working to increase the productivity of the governorates and creating a suitable environment for investment. The goal of this indicator is to follow up on the implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the framework of Egypt’s Vision 2030 at the governorate level, and to identify the development gaps between the different governorates and seek to address them, in addition to supporting the governorates to improve their competitive performance by creating a positive, supportive environment that works to enhance competitive capabilities and direct additional resources to the governorates.