Dr. Badrawi witnesses the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Planning and the National Competitiveness Council

Today, Prof. Hossam Badrawi, founder and honorary president of the National Competitiveness Council witnessed the signing of an agreement of understanding between the Ministry of Planning, Follow-up and Reform, the Information and Decision Support Center in the Council of Ministers, and the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council on measuring the competitiveness of governorates with the aim of launching an initiative to develop a competitiveness indicator at the level of Egyptian governorates based on Scientific and methodological foundations are clear and issued on an annual basis, which contributes to determining the competitive advantages of productivity and competitiveness of each governorate, which contributes to identifying and developing appropriate economic policies towards local development and national investment plans, as well as monitoring and identifying development gaps between governorates and directing additional resources to marginalized governorates. and disadvantaged. One of the most important objectives of the initiative is to support decentralization in the medium term, and to measure the efficiency of governorate administration and government agencies at the governorate level. for all provinces.
Prof. Dr. Hala Helmy Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform, and Major General Mahmoud Shaarawy, Minister of Local Development, spoke at the signing ceremony. and Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi, founder and honorary president of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council
The agreement was signed by Dr. Ahmed Kamali, Deputy Minister for Planning Affairs, on behalf of the Ministry of Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform, the Information and Decision Support Center, Engineer Ziad Abdel Tawab, President of the Center, and the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, Mr. Seifallah Fahmy, Chairman of the Board of Directors. The signing of the agreement witnessed the signing of the agreement.
Dr. Badrawi stressed that the council, since its inception, has played an important and effective role in supporting the competitiveness of the Egyptian economy, and is the first to call for the initiative to launch the “Provincial Competitiveness Index” as one of the initiatives related to the general framework of the Egyptian competitiveness strategy, which the council was commissioned to prepare by the Prime Minister during the year 2009
Subsequently, the initiative was presented during the eighth Egyptian Competitiveness Report, which was launched in 2010, and added that this initiative acquires special importance at the national level, given that Egypt’s Vision 2030 is based on the existence of a competitive and balanced economy, and aims to work to advance Egypt’s competitive position through Improving all competitiveness indicators.
Dr. Hossam praised the positive spirit of the government’s cooperation with civil society, which was evident in documenting Egypt’s Vision 2030, and in response to the governorates competitive initiative that aligns with the vision.