D. Manal Awad stresses the importance of changing the culture of citizens to reduce population increase
Dr. Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development, received a report today, Wednesday, on the efforts of the Ministry’s Central Population Unit during the month of September 2024 and its role in the governorates in supporting the implementation of the Population and Development Strategy 2030, working to improve population characteristics, and increasing citizens’ awareness regarding reproductive health and the optimal number. of children, and improving the economic and social level, in addition to following up on its implementation and participation in the events and activities of the Presidential Initiative " A new beginning for building humanity.
Dr. Manal Awad confirmed that the Ministry is moving forward in supporting the improvement of growth rates, population characteristics and distribution, achieving social justice and closing development gaps, noting that the population increase file is one of the important files. In which a large number of ministries in the government are cooperating to confront it, especially in light of the great importance that the President of the Republic attaches to this issue and his control over it, so that the citizen feels the rates of development achieved by the state, pointing to the need for the plans and programs implemented and set by the central levels of the government to be commensurate with the nature of each governorate. The Republic.
The Minister of Local Development explained that the issue of population increase requires providing the accurate information and data necessary to assist the state in its decisions and plans to confront this problem. The issue is particularly related to determining rates of poverty and illiteracy, so it is closely following the efforts of the Central Population Unit in the Ministry and coordinating them with the population units formed in the governorates to help provide the information and data required in this regard to facilitate the process of monitoring indicators and sectors that need more support to improve population performance indicators within the governorates and work Reports for periodic follow-up of indicators.
The report received by Dr. Manal Awad regarding the follow-up of the work of the Central Population Unit during the month of September 2024 indicated that it implemented 3 field visits were made to support the population work teams in the population units in the governorates of Giza, Fayoum, and Port Said, where the head of the central population unit in the ministry held meetings with local leaders in the aforementioned governorates and was informed of some local activities in some areas in those governorates, which include the economic empowerment of women in safe areas. An alternative to slums and eradicating electronic illiteracy among school students. The Youssef Al-Siddiq Center and City in Fayoum were also visited to introduce the 100-day initiative “A New Beginning” Within the framework of the “Talk to Him” initiative A meeting was also held with the President of the Council and the City of Port Fouad to discuss supporting the efforts of the Population Unit in the city and intensifying its activities and participation to raise citizens’ awareness of the danger of population increase. The Unit also followed a group of various activities within the presidential initiative “A New Beginning” At Youssef Ashour Primary School.
With regard to supporting and building the capabilities of local leaders… the report pointed out that the Central Population Unit implemented A training course to raise leadership skills in the field of lobbying and building support for the population issue for 22 center heads and center deputy heads in 17 governorates at the Local Development Training Center in Saqqara during the period 8 to 11 September 2024. The Central Population Unit also participated in preparing a draft of some protocols that will be It was signed between the Ministry and some institutions in the Egyptian state during the coming period to support the economic empowerment and financial inclusion of young men and women in rural areas within the national project to develop the Egyptian countryside, the “Decent Life” initiative, as well as to support the implementation of the National Strategy 2030.
 
The report added that, coinciding with the ongoing preparations for the launch of the World Conference on Population, Health and Human Development, which is scheduled to be held under the auspices of the President of the Republic during the period from 21 to 25 October of the current month, the Population Unit The Ministry’s central office provides technical support to population units in the governorates to prepare presentations on their local experiences and the initiatives they are undertaking to support national initiatives and the national population strategy, in addition to participating in the meeting of the National Population Council to learn about the national system of national strategies prepared by the Information and Decision Support Center of the Council of Ministers. In preparation for each ministry to enter the overall position of activities to follow up on achievements and determine performance indicators.
