The recommendations of the government meeting with governors are consistent with the directives of the President of the Republic – New Algeria

Today, Wednesday, Prime Minister Nadhir Arbawi, accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, Local Communities and Urban Development, supervised at the Palace of Nations, the conclusion of the work of the government meeting with the governors, held on December 24 and 25, 2024, under the high patronage of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and under the slogan “Local communities are the locomotive of national development.”

In his speech during the closing session of this meeting, the Prime Minister considered that the recommendations and proposals adopted were in line with the directives given by the President of the Republic during his opening speech for this meeting, through which he called for deepening discussions on issues related to local development, especially structural projects with regional integration and reducing development disparities. And upgrading the role of local groups in taking care of citizens’ concerns and improving the investment climate, as part of an integrated approach to diversifying the economy and strengthening national sovereignty through consolidating The pillars of food and water security, as well as placing the citizen’s quality of life at the center of attention when planning development programs.

When discussing the most prominent results of the workshops organized on the occasion of this meeting, the Prime Minister highlighted the importance of financial and budgetary mechanisms to achieve balanced local social and economic development, stressing the necessity of concerted efforts at the central and local levels in order to fully activate this system based on management with goals and results, in order to Rationalizing public spending and raising its efficiency levels.

In this regard, the Prime Minister called on the participants to continue to engage in the government’s efforts to rationalize spending, combat waste, ensure the effective management of development programs at the local level, and avoid delays in completion that lead to re-evaluation, which burdens the state budget, in addition to paying attention to valuing local property. And the maintenance of local base facilities.

In the same context, he also considered that the legal frameworks that are being prepared, especially those related to local collection and partnership between the public and private sectors, will allow local groups to adopt new and innovative methods in financing development projects and enhance their capabilities to mobilize more financial resources.

When addressing the issue of food and water security, which falls within the main challenges of the development strategy drawn up by the President of the Republic, especially through important investment programs, especially those related to the promotion of desert agriculture, the development of support mechanisms directed to farmers, especially in the strategic regions, and the strengthening of national capabilities in the field of storage, the Minister stressed The first is the need to redouble efforts in order to ensure the effective implementation of these reforms and follow them up on the field, especially the final clearing of agricultural property within the specified deadlines, and the implementation of ambitious projects that fall within the approved strategy to confront scarcity. Water caused by climate change.

The Prime Minister also drew attention to the fact that achieving food and water security also depends on ensuring greater independence in controlling technologies in the completion of major projects and the manufacture of equipment involved in the production, distribution and maintenance processes, which requires the development of a road map in order to raise the rate of national integration in this field.

Speaking about the local economy, the Prime Minister stressed that the efforts made by the state to develop a comprehensive investment system based on the principles of transparency and equality, especially with regard to obtaining economic real estate, require full involvement by local groups to give the required dynamism to investment work, explaining Upgrading the economic role of local groups will represent the best response to the challenges related to enhancing local collection and combating unemployment, leading to diversification of the national economy.

In this context, he stressed the need to make more efforts to enable local groups to play their role in enhancing the attractiveness of the region and accompanying project holders, especially by exploiting the preferential advantages of each region and providing favorable conditions to create local dynamism around the structured and investment projects that it embraces, stressing in particular In particular, the importance that the President of the Republic attaches to the program of establishing mini-activity zones at the municipal level, in keeping pace with the national economic dynamism, which will enable the provision of economic real estate for the benefit of owners of small projects and emerging institutions, which will allow the creation of job positions for this category. Youth and advancing local development.

At the level of developing public services, modernizing them and bringing them closer to the citizen, the Prime Minister called for taking concrete and effective measures in this regard, noting that the efforts made in the field of digitization would directly improve the daily lives of citizens and spare them the daily difficulties of obtaining a document or completing an administrative procedure. Simple, recalling the utmost importance that the President of the Republic attaches to completing the digital transformation project, which will allow for the embodiment of a radical change in the relationship between the administration and the citizen, by devoting transparency and combating all manifestations of bureaucracy and the judiciary. On hotbeds of corruption.

As for the sustainable planning and management of the city, the Prime Minister considered that it is necessary to work on finding appropriate solutions for the urban expansion that cities are experiencing and finally taking care of incomplete buildings, as directed by the President of the Republic, which requires adapting urban policy to the requirements of smart and sustainable management of cities by reviewing the framework. Relevant legal and regulatory and operational capacity development to ensure respect for reconstruction tools.

Mr. Nadhir Al-Arbawi also stressed the need to ensure that the measures and procedures taken, whatever their nature and scope, must have tangible effects on the daily lives of citizens and to ensure that each public policy culminates in positive results and is fully implemented, explaining that the common goal for all is commitment. Due to the results, not just the means. In this regard, he added that the government remains in a state of constant alert to respond to the requirements of economic and social development, and continues to work to implement the comprehensive and ambitious program set by the President of the Republic, for which the contribution of local groups remains more than necessary, even inevitable.

The Prime Minister concluded his speech by saying, “You can rely on the government to implement public policies and accompany and support the development projects approved by the President of the Republic.” I am also certain that Mr. President of the Republic can count on you, because a lot of qualitative work still awaits everyone.”