Sustainable Development Strategy:

Egypt's vision 2030

And Planning Reform

Nihal El-Megharbel, PhD

Deputy to the Minister of
Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform

Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Planning and Implementation

New York
May 27, 2105
 MAIN GOALS OF SDS

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 SDS PILLARS

Education and
Energy Environment
Training

Transparency and
Knowledge,
Efficiency of
Innovation and Urban Development
Governmental
Scientific Research
Institutions

Heath Social Justice Domestic Policy

Foreign Policy and

Economy Culture
National Security

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 ECONOMIC KPIS (2013/14 – 2030)

2013/14 2030

7%
GDP growth Rate 2% 12% on average

Investment Rate 14% 30%

Contribution of
services to GDP
46% 70%

Unemployment
Rate 13% 5%

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Goal (8.1) Sustain per capita

economic growth in accordance
with national circumstances, and
in particular at least 7% per
annum GDP growth in the least-
developed countries

Goal (8.6) by 2020 substantially

reduce the proportion of youth
not in employment, education or
training
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 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS

• An efficient and effective government administrative body,

Vision characterized by professionalism, transparency, justice and
responsiveness, offers quality services, and can be held
accountable, able to increase citizen satisfaction, and strongly
contributes in the achievement of Egypt’s development goals
and in improving the status of the Egyptian people.

• To improve the working conditions of civil employees and

New Civil enhance transparency of government services and strengthen
Service Law citizens' confidence in the state administration

• Improve working conditions and income for civil employees

• A New wage system
• Effective, neutral and accurate evaluation system
• An early retirement system
• A new Code of conduct

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 ENERGY REFORM MEASURES

• The government put in place measures to rationalize all subsidies

Subsidies during 2014/15 as part of a gradual plan in the medium term to
reduce these subsidies.

• The government issued the renewables feed in tariff law to

Feed-in-Tariff encourage private investments in this sector

Electricity • The new law will help in gradually deregulating the market
law

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Goal (7.1) by 2030 ensure universal access to affordable,

reliable, and modern energy services

Goal (7.2) increase substantially the share of renewable energy

in the global energy mix by 2030

Goal (7.3) double the global rate of improvement in energy

efficiency by 2030

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 EDUCATION KPIS
top 500

top 30 80% best 20

top 10

7%

Illiteracy One of the top Gross At least ten Egyptian Egypt to

reduced to 30 countries in enrollment Egyptian universities among become one of
the zero the quality of ratio for universities are the best 20 higher the top10
default (7%) basic education children at the among the top education countries in
index age of 4-6 500 universities institutions the TIMMS
reaches 80% publishing in assessment
international
periodicals
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Goal (4.1) by 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free,
equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to
relevant and effective learning outcomes

Goal (4.6) by 2030 ensure that all youth and at least x% of adults,
both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

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 INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH KPIS

top top top

40 40 40
Egypt
Egypt one of the top 20
among the top 20 countries in Intellectual
countries for the number Property Rights
of patents

Egypt Egypt Egypt

among the top 40 among the top 40 one of the top 40
countries in the field of countries of quality of countries in
innovation scientific research retaining innovative
institutions talents and
top top
capabilities
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Goal (9.5) enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological

capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, particularly
developing countries, including by 2030 encouraging innovation
and increasing the number of R&D workers per one million people
by x% and public and private R&D spending

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 HEALTH KPIS

Reduce
neonatal,
infant and Government
under 5 spending on
mortality rate health
by 50% reaches to
5% of the
total GDP
Reduce
maternal
mortality by
60%

Achieve Ensure 100%

equitable coverage for
access to 80% each
of essential vaccination
health and expand
interventions national
immunization
schedule
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Goal (3.2) by 2030 end preventable deaths of newborns and

under-five children

Goal (3.8) achieve universal health coverage (UHC), including

financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care
services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable
essential medicines and vaccines for all

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 SOCIAL JUSTICE – CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS
1. Increasing the Social Security Pension

2. Launching a cash-transfer program and increase the number of beneficiaries to 3

million poor families

3. Establishing logistics hubs for grain trade and storage to contribute to food security

4. Launching a social protection- targeting program using smart cards

5. Amending the Social Insurance Law to provide self employed social insurance to
farmers with more than one faddan acquisitions

6. Extending Medical Insurance to farmers and agriculture workers who do not have
access to public health- insurance program

7. Implementing Takafol and Karama Programs

8. Launching a comprehensive action plan to develop poorest villages

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Goal (5c) adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable

legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

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 POPULATION STRATEGY

Rights-based
New Population
approach to
Ministry
improve wellbeing

National Invest economic

Population surplus in human
Strategy development

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 CONCLUSION

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The Egyptian economy
is recovering Retail Agriculture

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The GoE is aware of Transportation Housing &
& Logistics Utilities
challenges it is facing
and undertaking
required reforms
EGYPT
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Tourism Industry
Stakeholders
commitment is key to
supporting fast and
steady recovery
Oil, Gas & ICT
Mining
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 MEGA PROJECTS

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Suez Canal Reclamation One Million Creating a Developing North west

(Including of One social new 4,800 the golden coast
the New Million housing km of roads Mining development
International Feddan units network Triangle project
City)

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 REFORMS OF PLANNING PROCESS: INTEGRATION

1. A unified planning law (national, regional and local planning) (economic,

social and spatial).
2. A unified database (new base map, unified registry, zip codes, etc… ).
3. Electronic unified monitoring and evaluation system adopted by all
government institutions.
4. Result Based Management (RBM).
5. Administrative reform: new civil service law.
6. Reform of the System of National Accounts (SNA).
7. Governance, transparency, and accountability.

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 THANK YOU
For more information, please visit:
http://mop.gov.eg/Vision/EgyptVision.aspx

Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Planning and Implementation

New York
May 27, 2105