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 initiative also aims at the establishment of industrial zones to promote small and medium enterprises, developing health units, raising the efficiency of the irrigation network of canals and drains, agricultural development and veterinary services, and establishing a series of advanced milk collection centers.
It also includes the establishment of a number of government service projects in cooperation with civil society organizations, as well as the expansion of social safety nets to contribute to reducing poverty by helping the neediest groups, in a way that supports the concept of comprehensive social protection.
The study added that the Decent Life contributes to providing job opportunities for the people of Upper Egypt, reducing poverty and unemployment rates, achieving the quality of life for citizens in terms of housing and entertainment, reducing the phenomenon of displacement to urban governorates, achieving the element of decentralization and creating an integrated map between governorates.
Moreover, Decent Life initiative makes the Egyptian countryside attractive for investments such as the establishment of storage warehouses. The packaging of agricultural products leads to lowering their cost, as they are currently transported to warehouses outside the villages and redistributed again to the governorates, causing their prices to rise.
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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