Strategic National Development Support Project - Egypt

The basic strategy for improving local administration is to increase local powers to manage local services. In essence, local levels as well as the citizens will be partners in this system to ensure that both decision making power and monitoring are closer to the beneficiaries, and as such the central level will NOT bear the sole responsible for public service provision in terms of identifying priorities and implementing essential services such as health, education and urban planning. To optimize the use of community resources needs, the decentralization measures will both enable local communities to adopt their own programmes and initiatives with the aim of increasing individual income in the poor rural areas and for those who work in the informal economy; and affect re-prioritization at the local level to ensure more public spending are directed to health, education and social protection programmes for the poorest areas and regions. Furthermore, to monitoring social services provision efficiency, the decentralization measures will empower local communities with decision-making powers in planning, financing and implementing the public services at the local level

The Strategic National Development Support Project, signed in October, 2008, will facilitate the long-term cooperation between MoLD, GOPP, MoPIC and MoF with the objective of activating and promoting strategic development planning while institutionalizing a framework that produces Strategic Plans in a participatory manner, and that facilitates their actual implementation.