Report: Decent Life Fruits to be Seen on June 30, 2022

Walaa Gad Al-Karim, Director of the Central Department of the Decent Life Initiative at the Ministry of Local Development, said that Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly personally supervises the Decent Life Initiative in all its details.

Gad Al-Karim added, during a telephone interview to Al-Youm TV show broadcast on DMC channel, presented by Dina Essmat on Thursday, that there is coordination to continue work on construction projects and not stop them permanently, and to end land procedures and respond to allotment lands.

He noted that the first phase requires licenses for a very large group of lands, and that there are entire villages on June 30, 2022 will be completed within the framework of the Decent Life initiative.

He also pointed out to the presidential directives to overcome all obstacles to the projects of the Decent Life Initiative.

A study by the Egyptian Center for Thought and Studies revealed that this project is being implemented in three phases. The first includes villages with poverty rates of 70% or more. The second includes villages with poverty rates from 50% to 70%, and the third includes villages with poverty rates less than 50 %.

The villages most in need are identified according to several criteria, including weak basic services and facilities (such as sewage networks, water networks, electricity and communications, availability of schools, the need for intensive health services to meet health care needs, and the condition of road networks) the lack of quality of life standards such as ( Low education rates, increased illiteracy rates, high classroom density, and high poverty rates for families residing in those villages).

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development issued a report on Wednesday to follow up and evaluate the impact of the presidential initiative “A Decent Life.”

The report pointed out that 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