Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, recently convened a meeting to discuss the status of the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family.
El-Said stressed the project’s relevance at the conference, which aims to solve population challenges and enhance demographic characteristics through a holistic development approach. She also emphasized the project’s strong backing from the political establishment.
This is the first time that the government has relied on economic activities to empower women in order to regulate population increase. A program of positive incentives is included in the initiative to modify women’s motives to enhance reproduction. A digital intervention axis has also been built to enable smart access to target groups, improve monitoring and evaluation efficiency, and assure the long-term viability of diverse operations.
The project’s strategic aim is to control population increase, improve demographic characteristics, and raise people’ quality of life through comprehensive techniques that encourage economic empowerment for women.
The meeting also featured a presentation on the initiative of performance incentives in managing the population issue at the governorate level. The discussion focused on the mechanisms to motivate citizens to register on the project’s platform at post offices, the services provided upon registration, the eligibility criteria, and the implementation mechanisms.
The meeting was attended by various officials, including Gamil Helmy, Assistant Minister of Planning and Economic Development for Sustainable Development Follow-up Plan; Kamal Nasr, Assistant Minister for Technical Office Affairs; Khaled Zakaria, Advisor to the Minister for Public Policies and Structural Reforms; Mohamed El Maghraby, Supervisor of the Human and Social Development Sector at the Ministry; Amira Tawadros, Director of the Demographic Center; Amr Suleiman, Expert Advisor in the Egyptian Family Development Project; and Sherine Beshara, Economic Empowerment Coordinator in the Egyptian Family Development Project.
It’s worth noting that in December 2023, El-Said and Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, witnessed the signing of a cooperation protocol between the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development and Egypt Post. The protocol aims to implement economic empowerment activities for the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family. It will provide financial and non-financial services offered by the Egyptian Post to nominated women by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, the Ministry of Social Solidarity, and the National Council for Women, further enhancing the state’s efforts in achieving economic empowerment for women.
