President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s initiative “A Decent Life” has been working on an integrated government services complex as one of the most important projects implemented by the presidential initiative within the national project to develop Egyptian rural villages.
It is expected that the integrated government services complexes will achieve an unprecedented leap in providing government services to citizens due to the rapid technological and digital services they provide in one place.
The government complexes are considered as mini units linked to the central government, which is preparing to move to the New Administrative Capital by next December upon directives given by President Sisi last week.
It is planned that 333 complexes for procedural government services will be established in all villages targeted by the "Decent Life" initiative.
The Ministry of Local Development counted the government buildings in the villages of "A Decent Life" and grouped them in one place, to re-utilize a large number of unused buildings or that will be transferred to government service complexes.
A recent report by the Ministry of Local Development revealed that the construction phase of 301 procedural services complexes had begun, with 90% of the number of the targeted complexes, while the concrete structures work for a large number of complexes had been completed.
Each of the integrated government complex buildings is located on an area of 420 square meters. Each of them contains a headquarters for the village local unit, the local council, a social solidarity unit, a civil registry, a real estate registry office, a supply office, and a small technology center.
The Ministry of Local Development continues to complete the development procedures carried out by the Ministry in cooperation with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in the technological centers to serve citizen.
Major General Mahmoud Shaarawy, Minister of Local Development, stressed that the government complexes being established within the framework of the "Decent Life" initiative are one of the features of the 'new republic' that has been founded since 2014 after President Sisi took office according to a clear vision of the political leadership and the government.
The second phase of the Decent Life Initiative includes 1,381 villages, in 22 governorates: Assiut, Sohag, Minya, Qena, Aswan, Luxor, New Valley, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Sharqiya, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Menoufia, Gharbia, Alexandria, Ismailia, Damietta, Kafr El-Sheikh, Giza and Beheira.
The Decent Life Initiative reflects the state’s interest in implementing local development plans, and caring for the neediest groups and providing them with the necessary assistance to raise the economic, social and environmental level of families in poor villages, and enable them to obtain all essential services.
A study by the Egyptian Center for Thought and Studies stated that the stage aims to raise the standard of living of citizens, reduce poverty rates, develop infrastructure and basic services provided to them, especially in a number of areas such as education, schools, housing, electricity, sanitation, drinking water, natural gas, waste recycling.
The first phase of the initiative – which kicked off in July 2019 until the end of 2020 – included 143 villages in 46 centres in about 11 governorates, bringing the number of beneficiaries to 1.8 million.
Assessing the impact of the initiative on achieving the sustainable development goals; The Ministry’s report said that “A Decent life” was able to achieve several achievements in terms of the third, fourth, sixth, eighth, and eleventh goals.
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