Reflection of the FGDs on the ten pillars of “Egypt vision 2030”
| Pillars | Comments/priorities of local communities | Lost opportunities | Successful local initiatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pillar 1: Economic Development | “Social housing” projects are not enough and are located in the industrial parks serving internal migrants rather than local community. Let alone the prices that are unaffordable for most of the youth. Concluding that the” social housing” strategy as such dose not solve the housing problem | In Monifia: ii. Re-opening of closed factories such as cotton factories | In Monifia, Toshiba El Araby (a private business plant) provides an example of linking education to employment as the factory opened a vocational school that train the local community on skills needed in the factory. Hence, provide job opportunities for the community surrounding the factory. On the contrary, “Cristal Asfour” Factor y in Minia import all labor from other governorates |
| Small and medium enterprises, although the funds are available at banks, procedures are still complicated. Public campaign on “financial inclusion” is vague and not suitable for the citizens in local communities | ii. Maximizing usage of Tala Incubators Park | In Minia, Dir Abo Hens Village is an unemployment free village. Young girls work in textile at home and once get married they open their own production unit at her new home. A textile school is crucially required for this indu stry to develop and grow | |
| Agriculture is very important. Discussions tackled the following issues; i. Importance of agro-industry is for both industry and agriculture | ix. Encouraging agricultural activities in Sadat City | Investment departments in Ismailia launched a special link on the governorate’s official website to present youth innovations and business ideas, and provide support for some | |
| ii. Agricultural land abuse is a serious issue that threats local communities | In Minia: x. No food-processing factories are planned | ||
| iii. Maintaining and developing irrigation systems | xi. Late development of public plants makes it unable to compete with private ones. (i.e. Hone factory still using solar while other private factories use gas that is much cheaper lead to huge continues losses) | ||
| iv. Developing agricultural drainage system | |||
| v. Establishing advanced storehouses | |||
| vi. Establishing agricultural research center that help increasing productivity | |||
| What is the link between Quesna Industrial Park and Robiki industrial Park? What is the plan for Quesna Industrial Park? | |||
| Pillar 2: Energy | Why subsidizing industry while their products are sold in international prices? | Solar energy projects failed in some governorates due to high levels of dust. Researches indicated this facts, however, decision makers did not consider the findings of these research wasting public finds | in Minia, a biogas project is implemented with the ILO |
| Designing incentive packages that encourage innovation in solar energy production | Renewable energy projects (wind) is located only in Hurghada, while Minia for example has long deserts and speed wind. Some lands were allocated for such pro jects, however, financial and technical support is needed for youth to be able to use them | Local NGOs in Ismailia had a joint initiative to discuss tools and mechanisms for energy use rationalization | |
| Launching energy factories that use solid and liquid wastes in generating energy | |||
| Pillar 3: Knowledge, Innovation and Scientific Research | Need for establishing local entity for patents | Employing education in encouraging innovation and scientific research | The governorate of Monifia coordinated with the Monifia University in creating a local communication system among heads of cities and districts. This local system proved to be very effective in accelerating the routine work |
| Need for enhancing finance allocated for scientific research | Stopping the Schools-TV program entitled “Young Innovator” | ||
| Need for establishing local research centers that focus on local community issues and its specifications. It was noted that research centers are located in Cairo far from local community | |||
| Encouraging innovation among local community schools | |||
| Designing effective local mechanisms for discovering and supporting innovators | |||
| Pillar 4: Transparency and Efficiency of Governmental Institutions | Enhancing basic infrastructure and informative bases of local administration | Local administration dedicated only for the five competences that are very limited | Not mentioned |
| Enhancing human resource system | Lack of documentation and lesson learned on both local and national level. There should be an entity specialized in extracting lesson learned, push and pull local factors for each project and/or activity | ||
| Empowering local administrators | Centralized procurement is degrading the performance of the local administration | ||
| Making public services facilities profitable. Managed in a way that make it | Lack of database on local-level projects make coordination among localities impossible | ||
| Enhancing the processes of public budget preparation and the role of localities in selecting needed projects | |||
| Information dissemination and Automation as means of combating corruption and mobilizing community participation | Conducting effective communication with the local citizens due to lack of accurate information regarding projects and services planed or already under construction | ||
| Enhancing selection mechanism of local leaderships | Male application of the “Code of Conducts”. And in case of used with, employees submit complains to MoPMAR that issued it | ||
| Changing work environment to be more productive and less corrupted | The huge discrepancies in the wages and work environment in local administration departments and that of public economic agencies performing at same place | ||
| Pillar 5: Social Justice | Having equal services and opportunities for local cities as urban cities, and for districts and villages as cities | Crises support is limited to beneficiaries of “Takaful and Karam” Programs. Other might bene fit, however, requires long and complicated procedures | Not mentioned |
| Ability to believe in having hopeful and confident future | Lack of insurance on agricultural productions. Weak role of corporate social responsibly (CSR). Big companies and factories performing in local places could develop their local comm unities through effective CSR | ||
| Enjoy safety and security | |||
| Farmers are not given due attention | |||
| Subsidized fertilizers are provided to land owners not renters | |||
| Pillar 6: Health | Establishing an integrative electronic network among medical units working in each local community and its surrounding communities that would help the following; providing better and various services for local citizens , scientific research, exchanging experiences, and creating integrative knowledge | Unused medical equipment due to lack of human resources | Not mentioned |
| Promoting ethics among all levels of human resources working in medical units to treat local citizens in a more respective, kind and conscience way | Unused buildings. (both finishes and semi-finished hospitals and health care units) | ||
| Promoting health prevention programs | |||
| Enhancing governance of health sector on local level | |||
| Pillar 7: Education and Training | All agreed that quality of education need to be improved | USAID project for supporting talented students (technological and scientific schools) is degraded due to lack of financial and administrative support | In Minia, the governorate launched a local competition “Markaz with No Illiteracy”. It has a great impact on mobilizing local resources for this target |
| Modern and advanced curricula are needs | In Minia, no public lands is available for building new schools and the governorate depend on citizen to donate their own land (class intensity range between 70-80 student) | In Delinga and Maghag ha villages, Minia, agricultural schools are linked to land reclamation programs as schools are requested to reclaim number of Faddans | |
| Technical education/training is very important particularly in rural areas | Closing the “educational farms” | ||
| Pillar 8: Culture | Re-embed positive values such as productivity, accepting other, mercy, social solidarity into local communities | Programs did not consider impact of the drama, art, media and social networks on our society particularly on youth | Minia squares were decorated in co-ordination with Minia University giving chances to students of Fine art school to innovate |
| Flourishing the role of family, school, mosques and churches in manner of community prevailing attitudes and values | Male law enforcement made the environmental problems more sophisticated | “Developing the New Valley initiative” perform art workshops. Many participants developed ideas for startups through these workshops | |
| Filtering imported values | In Minia, male employment of ancient religious antiquity. (both Islamic and Christian). One third of Egypt’s antiquity is located in Minia; however, tourism is not a main economic activity. Atonic museum is under renovation for many years and only small budget is required to finalize it | ||
| Role of media and drama in building role models | In Minia also, two international discoveries happened in Tuna El Gabal Village, however, no proper attention and marketization was done | ||
| Many schools and/or public libraries are closed or degraded | |||
| Inherited habits should be treated as a treasure. These are well examined in terms of appropriateness and conveniency to our communities | |||
| Many cultural activities are taking place, however, with limited impact due to weak management | |||
| Close of many successful projects such as Child Library, Child Club, Mobile Library…etc. | |||
| Pillar 9: Environment | Local administration pays the price of other entities not performing their work | National and International aid directed to environmental projects does not consider actual needs of local communities | In Minia, a local initiative was done with local NGOs to develop main squares. Another initiative was done to household-waste collection |
| Growing landfills problem. (particularly in Monifia governorate) | Governors have no authority on national protected areas | ||
| Enhancing role of local NGOs in waste management | |||
| Pillar 10: Urban Development | “Social housing” projects that serve urban development | Having a clear comprehensive policy for urban development in order to encourage local citizens as well as the private sector to align their own personal and investment plans | Having a clear comprehensive policy for urban development in order to encourage local citizens as well as the private sector to align their own personal and investment plans |
| Encouraging citizens’ localization in newly established urban communities | Male implementation of the already existing law that puts daily fine on unpermitted buildings. (unified law article no.119) | ||
| Newly built housing projects does not have adequate modern sewage system, let alone other services such as schooling, social and sports centers |
| Pillars | Comments/priorities of local communities | Lost opportunities | Successful local initiatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pillar 1: Economic Development | “Social housing” projects are not enough and are located in the industrial parks serving internal migrants rather than local community. Let alone the prices that are unaffordable for most of the youth. Concluding that the” social housing” strategy as such dose not solve the housing problem | In Monifia: ii. Re-opening of closed factories such as cotton factories | In Monifia, Toshiba El Araby (a private business plant) provides an example of linking education to employment as the factory opened a vocational school that train the local community on skills needed in the factory. Hence, provide job opportunities for the community surrounding the factory. On the contrary, “Cristal Asfour” Factor y in Minia import all labor from other governorates |
| Small and medium enterprises, although the funds are available at banks, procedures are still complicated. Public campaign on “financial inclusion” is vague and not suitable for the citizens in local communities | ii. Maximizing usage of Tala Incubators Park | In Minia, Dir Abo Hens Village is an unemployment free village. Young girls work in textile at home and once get married they open their own production unit at her new home. A textile school is crucially required for this indu stry to develop and grow | |
| Agriculture is very important. Discussions tackled the following issues; i. Importance of agro-industry is for both industry and agriculture | ix. Encouraging agricultural activities in Sadat City | Investment departments in Ismailia launched a special link on the governorate’s official website to present youth innovations and business ideas, and provide support for some | |
| ii. Agricultural land abuse is a serious issue that threats local communities | In Minia: x. No food-processing factories are planned | ||
| iii. Maintaining and developing irrigation systems | xi. Late development of public plants makes it unable to compete with private ones. (i.e. Hone factory still using solar while other private factories use gas that is much cheaper lead to huge continues losses) | ||
| iv. Developing agricultural drainage system | |||
| v. Establishing advanced storehouses | |||
| vi. Establishing agricultural research center that help increasing productivity | |||
| What is the link between Quesna Industrial Park and Robiki industrial Park? What is the plan for Quesna Industrial Park? | |||
| Pillar 2: Energy | Why subsidizing industry while their products are sold in international prices? | Solar energy projects failed in some governorates due to high levels of dust. Researches indicated this facts, however, decision makers did not consider the findings of these research wasting public finds | in Minia, a biogas project is implemented with the ILO |
| Designing incentive packages that encourage innovation in solar energy production | Renewable energy projects (wind) is located only in Hurghada, while Minia for example has long deserts and speed wind. Some lands were allocated for such pro jects, however, financial and technical support is needed for youth to be able to use them | Local NGOs in Ismailia had a joint initiative to discuss tools and mechanisms for energy use rationalization | |
| Launching energy factories that use solid and liquid wastes in generating energy | |||
| Pillar 3: Knowledge, Innovation and Scientific Research | Need for establishing local entity for patents | Employing education in encouraging innovation and scientific research | The governorate of Monifia coordinated with the Monifia University in creating a local communication system among heads of cities and districts. This local system proved to be very effective in accelerating the routine work |
| Need for enhancing finance allocated for scientific research | Stopping the Schools-TV program entitled “Young Innovator” | ||
| Need for establishing local research centers that focus on local community issues and its specifications. It was noted that research centers are located in Cairo far from local community | |||
| Encouraging innovation among local community schools | |||
| Designing effective local mechanisms for discovering and supporting innovators | |||
| Pillar 4: Transparency and Efficiency of Governmental Institutions | Enhancing basic infrastructure and informative bases of local administration | Local administration dedicated only for the five competences that are very limited | Not mentioned |
| Enhancing human resource system | Lack of documentation and lesson learned on both local and national level. There should be an entity specialized in extracting lesson learned, push and pull local factors for each project and/or activity | ||
| Empowering local administrators | Centralized procurement is degrading the performance of the local administration | ||
| Making public services facilities profitable. Managed in a way that make it | Lack of database on local-level projects make coordination among localities impossible | ||
| Enhancing the processes of public budget preparation and the role of localities in selecting needed projects | |||
| Information dissemination and Automation as means of combating corruption and mobilizing community participation | Conducting effective communication with the local citizens due to lack of accurate information regarding projects and services planed or already under construction | ||
| Enhancing selection mechanism of local leaderships | Male application of the “Code of Conducts”. And in case of used with, employees submit complains to MoPMAR that issued it | ||
| Changing work environment to be more productive and less corrupted | The huge discrepancies in the wages and work environment in local administration departments and that of public economic agencies performing at same place | ||
| Pillar 5: Social Justice | Having equal services and opportunities for local cities as urban cities, and for districts and villages as cities | Crises support is limited to beneficiaries of “Takaful and Karam” Programs. Other might bene fit, however, requires long and complicated procedures | Not mentioned |
| Ability to believe in having hopeful and confident future | Lack of insurance on agricultural productions. Weak role of corporate social responsibly (CSR). Big companies and factories performing in local places could develop their local comm unities through effective CSR | ||
| Enjoy safety and security | |||
| Farmers are not given due attention | |||
| Subsidized fertilizers are provided to land owners not renters | |||
| Pillar 6: Health | Establishing an integrative electronic network among medical units working in each local community and its surrounding communities that would help the following; providing better and various services for local citizens , scientific research, exchanging experiences, and creating integrative knowledge | Unused medical equipment due to lack of human resources | Not mentioned |
| Promoting ethics among all levels of human resources working in medical units to treat local citizens in a more respective, kind and conscience way | Unused buildings. (both finishes and semi-finished hospitals and health care units) | ||
| Promoting health prevention programs | |||
| Enhancing governance of health sector on local level | |||
| Pillar 7: Education and Training | All agreed that quality of education need to be improved | USAID project for supporting talented students (technological and scientific schools) is degraded due to lack of financial and administrative support | In Minia, the governorate launched a local competition “Markaz with No Illiteracy”. It has a great impact on mobilizing local resources for this target |
| Modern and advanced curricula are needs | In Minia, no public lands is available for building new schools and the governorate depend on citizen to donate their own land (class intensity range between 70-80 student) | In Delinga and Maghag ha villages, Minia, agricultural schools are linked to land reclamation programs as schools are requested to reclaim number of Faddans | |
| Technical education/training is very important particularly in rural areas | Closing the “educational farms” | ||
| Pillar 8: Culture | Re-embed positive values such as productivity, accepting other, mercy, social solidarity into local communities | Programs did not consider impact of the drama, art, media and social networks on our society particularly on youth | Minia squares were decorated in co-ordination with Minia University giving chances to students of Fine art school to innovate |
| Flourishing the role of family, school, mosques and churches in manner of community prevailing attitudes and values | Male law enforcement made the environmental problems more sophisticated | “Developing the New Valley initiative” perform art workshops. Many participants developed ideas for startups through these workshops | |
| Filtering imported values | In Minia, male employment of ancient religious antiquity. (both Islamic and Christian). One third of Egypt’s antiquity is located in Minia; however, tourism is not a main economic activity. Atonic museum is under renovation for many years and only small budget is required to finalize it | ||
| Role of media and drama in building role models | In Minia also, two international discoveries happened in Tuna El Gabal Village, however, no proper attention and marketization was done | ||
| Many schools and/or public libraries are closed or degraded | |||
| Inherited habits should be treated as a treasure. These are well examined in terms of appropriateness and conveniency to our communities | |||
| Many cultural activities are taking place, however, with limited impact due to weak management | |||
| Close of many successful projects such as Child Library, Child Club, Mobile Library…etc. | |||
| Pillar 9: Environment | Local administration pays the price of other entities not performing their work | National and International aid directed to environmental projects does not consider actual needs of local communities | In Minia, a local initiative was done with local NGOs to develop main squares. Another initiative was done to household-waste collection |
| Growing landfills problem. (particularly in Monifia governorate) | Governors have no authority on national protected areas | ||
| Enhancing role of local NGOs in waste management | |||
| Pillar 10: Urban Development | “Social housing” projects that serve urban development | Having a clear comprehensive policy for urban development in order to encourage local citizens as well as the private sector to align their own personal and investment plans | Having a clear comprehensive policy for urban development in order to encourage local citizens as well as the private sector to align their own personal and investment plans |
| Encouraging citizens’ localization in newly established urban communities | Male implementation of the already existing law that puts daily fine on unpermitted buildings. (unified law article no.119) | ||
| Newly built housing projects does not have adequate modern sewage system, let alone other services such as schooling, social and sports centers |
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