Strengthening Development Planning And Management In Greater Cairo (Umbrella Project); Component 1: Urban Planning And Governance)

The project's strategic objective is represented in the active contribution to achieving the strategic vision for the development of Greater Cairo represented in achieving social justice and economic competitiveness, as well as being environment-friendly through the development of priority development projects, participatory planning processes and preparing studies of institutional, legal and administrative development to contribute to achieving this vision.

 Project-specific objectives

·        Restore the value of important major historical and heritage sites in a way that contributes to achieving economic development and improving the living and environmental conditions for the residents of these areas.

·        The project aims at

·        Restore the value of important major historical and heritage sites in a way that contributes to achieving economic development and improving the living and environmental conditions for the residents of these areas.

·        Seek to narrow the gap between strategic and action plans in a way that contributes to facilitating the processes of their implementation.

·        Develop the institutional and legal framework and the governance system in a way that contributes to achieving the strategic vision and urban development in Greater Cairo.

·        Develop the urban administration system in Greater Cairo.

·        Develop a gender strategy and guidelines to integrate gender equality into this project (GC) especially and the work of GOPP in general.

·        Achieve community communication with development partners and relevant parties to the urban development planning processes.

·        Skills and capacity of the employees of the General Organization of Physical Planning and local development partners in the field of strategic participatory planning, administration and implementation will be developed.

The outcomes of the project would be the specific changes in attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, skills, social status, economic level, or level of functioning that result from project implementation activities, such as finding a job, reducing polluting emissions by a certain amount..etc.

 

The project targets to build bridges of communication through bases of confidence, transparency, and to secure community project support from development partners and communities concerned with development on the level of Greater Cairo and its strategic vision project.  

 

It is hoped that the project will help to enrich the ongoing process of discussion and debate about the required reforms, seeking to reach consensus on a specific final formula of the development strategy, including possible adjustments to the development plan management and the proposed solutions.

Country:
Egypt
Region: Middle East
Donors: Egypt
Theme: Urban development and management
Project Timeline
End Date: 31st December 2021
Start Date: 9th June 2016
Budget Utilisation
Budget: $1,014,406
Expenditure: $462,566

Outputs List