Report: Get to Know Egypt's Efforts to Eradicate Poverty

Over the past seven years, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi paid attention to the Egyptian citizen, and provided him with many social protection programs such as “Solidarity and Dignity” program, “2 Are Enough”, and “100 million health.”

He also showed a great interest in pensioners and in other programs for a decent life for every Egyptian citizen.

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development issued a report recently on the government’s efforts to achieve sustainable development goals. In the coming lines, SEE will sum up the report.

With regard to the first goal, the eradication of poverty, the state directed LE 750 billion (from the state’s general budget) during the period (2018/2019-2020-2021) for social protection programs with a growth rate of 50 percent between the years 2016/2015-2021, which resulted in many achievements in the field of social protection.

1- 3.8 million families (14.1 million citizens) benefited from cash support programs.

2- 1.1 million persons of disabilities “known as people of determination” benefited from cash support programs, at a rate of 8 percent of the total number of beneficiaries.

3- The preliminary stage of the “Decent Life” initiative included directing about LE 15 billion to develop the 375 most-needy villages in Egypt (4.5 million citizens), which resulted in a percentage point reduction in poverty rates in these villages on average.

4- These efforts have resulted in the improvement of many development indicators, including a decrease in the poverty rate in 2019/2020 for the first time since 1999/2000 to reach 29.7 percent.

5- The extreme poverty rate decreased from 6.2 percent in 2017/2018 to 4.5 percent in 2019/2020.

It’s noteworthy that, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, the Decent Life Foundation announced the launching of (Wasl Al Khair) food aid convoys in all governorates as part of the “One Million Cartons” campaign in implementation of directives given by President Sisi in this regard.

The field monitoring teams and volunteers of Decent Life Foundation in all governorates across Egypt have already begun loading trucks in preparation for storing them and then distributing them to the beneficiaries in a number of governorates as a first stage within the One Million Cartons campaign, namely the governorates of “Beheira, Beni Suef, Sharqia, Kafr El-Sheikh and Minya.

The first phase of Egypt’s Decent Life initiative – which launched in July 2019 and ended at the end of 2020 – included 143 villages in 46 centers 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, a former report by the Ministry of Planning stated 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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