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Dr. Badrawi attends the launching event of the “Egyptian Governorates Competitiveness Index”

June 22, 2023 2023, Dr Hossam Badrawi 2023, News 223 Views

Within the framework of cooperation between the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development and civil society, Dr. Hossam Badrawi attended today, Thursday, June 22, 2023, the launch event of the “Egyptian Governorates Competitiveness Index”. In the presence of all governors and the Minister of Local Government.
Dr. indicated. Hala Al-Saeed to the effort of d. Badrawi, as the initiator of the initiative through the National Competitiveness Council years ago.
This initiative, which was worked on by the Ministry of Planning and led by d. Ahmed Kamali, Deputy Minister of Planning, networking efforts between state and civil society institutions, namely the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the Cabinet Information Center, and the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council.
I also thanked and appreciated Dr. Mona Al-Jarf, Professor of Economics, Dr. Ola Al-Khawaja, and Dr. Osama Al-Gohary.
It is worth noting that this index is the first competitiveness index for the Egyptian governorates, designed at the initiative of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the Information and Decision Support Center of the Council of Ministers, and the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the West. Asia (ESCWA) and the USAID Macroeconomic Reform and Stabilization Project. The index aims to increase productivity in the governorates, provide an attractive environment for investment, in addition to promoting comprehensive growth through regional integration, which contributes to enhancing competitiveness at the local level to achieve sustainable development. .
The most important points discussed:
The importance of the indicator in the implementation of sustainable development plans in the Egyptian governorates
The role of different entities in the design and implementation of the indicator
Present an overview of the indicator, its methodology and objectives
The main parameters of the theoretical framework and quantitative representation of the indicator
View the main results of the indicator
The economic, political and social importance of developing the local competitiveness index in Egypt and future opportunities
A set of recommendations for the governorates based on the results of the index
A roadmap and future steps to ensure the sustainability of the index calculation and to enhance the competitiveness of the governorates
Linking the pillars of the competitiveness index to the localization of the sustainable development goals
The meeting was attended by:
• Her Excellency Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning
His Excellency Major General Hisham Amna, Minister of Local Development
• Mr. Julien Eddy, Director of the Macroeconomic Reform and Stabilization Project (MESR)
• Marguerite Sancho, Deputy Chief of Mission for the USAID in Egypt
Speakers:-
• Seif Allah Fahmy, Chairman of the Board of Directors and founding member of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council
• Osama El Gohary, Head of the Information and Decision Support Center at the Council of Ministers
Major General/ Khairat Barakat, Head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
• Dr. Mona Al-Jarf, Professor of Economics and Head of the Technical Committee for the Egyptian Governorates Competitiveness Index
• Dr. Edmund Malesky, Professor at Duke University
• Dez Rasha Abdel Hakim, Senior Economic Adviser, USAID
• M. Mohamed El Sewedy, Chairman of the Federation of Egyptian Industries
• Dr. Tariq Rahmi, Governor of Western Province
• Dr. Ahmed Al-Ansari, Governor of Fayoum

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people
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