A Decent Life... LE200 Billion Allocated for 2021/2022

The economic and social development plan for the fiscal year 2022/2021 submitted by Minister of Planning Hala Al-Saeed to the House of Representatives, revealed the allocation of LE200 billion for A Decent Life initiative.

The initiative aims at achieving the quality of life for citizens, providing balanced regional development pillars, and changing the Egyptian countryside in terms of development to the best aspects related to the standard of living of the Egyptian citizen, such as health, education, drinking water, sanitation, road paving, and kindergarten.

The plan confirmed that A Decent Life initiative is an unprecedented developmental project, the largest development initiative in the history of Egypt and even the world, both in the size of the financial allocations or the number of beneficiaries. It represents an integrated and comprehensive experience.

The second phase of the Decent Life initiative is expected to fulfill the success of the first phase, launched in January 2019 targeting 375 villages and contributed to the alleviation of the coronavirus effects on the lives of 4.5 million citizens.

According to the first phase’s statistics, the initiative helped to reduce poverty rates in some villages by 14 percentage, resulting in improving the rate of access to basic services by about 50 percent in some villages, where the completion of the establishment of 51 health units, and the establishment of 1534 classrooms, and providing sanitation services health in 37 villages and raise the efficiency of 5339 homes, as well as other development projects that converge with the 17 goals of sustainable development.

As for the second phase, the initiative will be implemented over a period of three years, starting from 2021 and ending in 2023.

It is scheduled to target 1,371 villages and benefit 17 percent of the Egyptian population, and in 2022 it will be applied to 3,299 villages, and 35 percent of the Egyptian population will benefit from them.

According to the plan submitted to the House of Representatives, allocations for the Decent Life initiative were distributed in the year 22/21, amounting to 200 billion pounds, to different sectors, where the share of health is 27.5 billion pounds, allocations for paving roads are 2 and 12 billion pounds, allocations for sanitation and drinking water are 102 billion pounds, solidarity is 14 billion, and electricity allocations are 20 billion pounds.