Egypt’s Minister of International Cooperation, Dr Rania Al-Mashat, has inspected a number of ongoing and new development projects in Luxor, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting over 120,000 people.
Development Diaries understands that the United Nations agency is supporting people in Luxor through climate change interventions, awareness and nutrition projects, as well as school feeding and other initiatives so that communities may become more self-reliant.
The projects, it was gathered, fall under the ministry’s ‘Global Partnerships Narrative’ focused on three main pillars: people at the core, projects in action, and purpose as the driver.
The minister was accompanied by the Governor of Luxor, WFP’s Representative and Country Director in Egypt as well as a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.
‘Listening to the stories told by the farmers and women entrepreneurs manifests the real human impact these programmes are achieving’, the minister said.
‘Concerted efforts are needed to push forward with the United Nations SDGs, with the sustainable development of agriculture being a centre pillar in this endeavor.
‘Together with WFP, we are focusing on ensuring food security going into the future and empowering communities to build for a resilient and green economy’.
The minister met with several women who shared their life changing experience through ‘She Can’ initiative, a joint programme between the Ministry of Social Solidarity and WFP.
‘We are proud to have been a strong partner of the government of Egypt in implementing programmes that are aligned with the Country’s 2030 Vision’, WFP Representative and Country Director in Egypt, Menghestab Haile, said.
‘As a result of this solid collaboration, we are able to scale up successful integrated development models to assist more communities in need, especially at such difficult times resulting from the Covid-19 crisis where more and more people are becoming vulnerable’.
It is understood that WFP is the sole UN agency in Egypt providing food security to the most vulnerable populations.
Source: WFP
Photo source: Egypt Today
