Egypt and the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) have agreed on five future projects with a
total value of $ 105 million, according to the Ministry of International
Cooperation.
The ministry clarified in a statement Tuesday that the projects come in the
sectors of supporting women economically and socially, empowering girls,
automation of governmental services and digitizing government services, moving
to the new administrative capital, economic courts and developing most-needy
governorates, in addition to the new cooperation strategy between the two
countries for the next five years.
This came during a meeting held via a video conference technique between
Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat, and Director of the
USAID Sherry Carlin, and a number of agency officials, al-Mashat emphasized
that the USAID is a strategic partner of the Egyptian government in a number of
development projects in sectors such as health, education, women's economic
empowerment, and agriculture.
She pointed to the Ministry of International Cooperation's keenness to
coordinate with the USAID to align the new cooperation strategy between the two
countries with Egypt's development priorities and sustainable development
goals, and the Ministry's new strategy to list international partnerships based
on 3 main axes that are the citizen's focus of attention and ongoing projects
and the goal is the driving force.
She also noted the importance of future projects with the USAID in promoting
the sustainability of economic reforms, increasing economic growth, increasing
women's participation in the formal economy, expanding women's financial
inclusion, and working to increase their economic empowerment in the most-needy
governorates, in cooperation with a number of partners in the private sector
and the National Women's Council.
For her part, the Director of the USAID reviewed a number of future projects
for economic and social empowerment of women in Egypt, stressing that the
United States Agency for International Development in Egypt is committed to
increasing its investments in women's economic and social empowerment in Egypt
and gender equality, in order to alleviate negative economic impacts coronavirus
on women.
The total current portfolio between Egypt and USAID amounts to about $1 billion
through bilateral agreements in the fields of agriculture, basic education,
higher education, health, tourism, trade and investment, water and sanitation,
small and medium companies and women's empowerment, and through the Egyptian
American Business Fund to support small and medium enterprises.
Source: Egypt Today
