Nasr: Egypt committed to accelerate pace of investments towards human development

CAIRO - 23 July 2018: Investment and International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr pledged Egypt's commitment to accelerate the pace of investments towards human development.

During her meeting on Monday with visiting UNICEF's Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere, Nasr extolled UNICEF's non-stop support to Egypt, stressing the necessity of exerting more efforts to implement "Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt's vision 2030."

A UNICEF statement said that during his three-day visit to Egypt, the UNICEF Regional Director met with high level government officials, private sector, national and international counterparts.

Discussions focused on key issues including system building in the field of social workforce, social protection, the crucial transformative program "Education 2.0", the important efforts in the fields of health and nutrition, as well as the issue of young Egyptians’ employability, the statement added.

For his part, Cappelaere said "Egypt has made remarkable progress on children’s rights on many fronts including the decrease of under-five mortality rates and the Education enrolment."

"More efforts to address the most vulnerable children are on track, thanks to the Government renewed commitment to place the interest of all children in Egypt as a top priority," he added.