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There are 11 governorates that are common between the first and second phases.
There are 11 governorates that are common between the first and second phases.
It will be completed in three years.
It will be completed in three years.
Those are located across seven governorates.
The Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center released earlier this week a report on four Egyptian villages that have significance in certain industries on the global level.
The economic empowerment initiative is within "Forsa" (opportunity) programme aimed at enabling self-employment among the beneficiaries of Takaful wa Karama.
Built of mud bricks and with a unique engineering control system in temperature and ventilation.
The official pointed out that the pilot phase – implemented in 2019 - targeted the poorest 375 villages.
Gad al-Karim pointed out that 96 percent of land plots required by the whole initiative have been made available by the concerned governmental entities.
Those live in low-income rural villages.
That is through the Ministry of Social Solidarity and civil associations to enhance the living conditions of beneficiaries.
Egyptians consume 18 million tons of wheat per annum, producing around half the quantity and importing the rest.
The total number of villages targeted by the initiative is 4,600 lying across 20 governorates.
The initiative aims to improve the standards of living, infrastructure, and services within Egypt’s lesser developed governorates.
Within "Decent Life" initiative, natural gas will be introduced in four million households located in 1,337 villages extending pipes over 16,000 kilometers.
The official elaborated that 94 percent of beneficiaries live in Upper Egypt.
The initiative is worth LE20 billion.
The project – worth LE500 million – covers 1,500 villages housing 50-55 million dwellers, who compose half of the Egyptian population.
El-Said described the launch as an addition to the ministry’s efforts to shift towards evidence-based planning, automating the process of preparing the plan, and following up on its implementation.
