Ministry of Planning and Economic Development announced in a February statement that the presidential initiative "Decent Life" was included in the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development (GPSDD​). On 25 February, the United Nations has praised Egypt’s “Decent Life” initiative has contributed to mitigating the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic through improving the standards of living conditions of the most needy groups. Decent Life initiative is an initiative endorsed by President Abdel Fattah el Sisi, with the main objective of improving the quality of life in the poorest rural communities within the framework of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030, through decreasing multidimensional poverty and unemployment rates. The initiative has four pillars: first: improving living-standards and investing in human capital; second: developing infrastructure services; third: raising the quality of human development services; fourth: economic development. The initiative provides poorest villages with increased access to the basic services such as health, education, water and sanitation, it said.

Source: Egypt Today March 07, 2021 15:22 UTC