Egypt's expenditure on social care, protection rises to 9.5% of GDP in 2022

CAIRO – 7 June 2023: Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine al-Qabaj highlighted Tuesday that Egypt's expenditure on social care, protection and development rose to 9.5 percent of the GDP in 2022.

The minister's statements came during the Egypt-chaired second session of the Ministerial Meeting for Social Development of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The allocations went to the monetary subsidies programme Takaful w Karama having as beneficiaries families living below the poverty line and other vulnerable groups; launching the National Programme for the Egyptian Family Development; Egyptian Family Insurance Fund; marriage awareness programme "Mawada;" Positive Parenting Programme targeted at beneficiaries of Takaful w Karama; economic empowerment through microfinancing; increasing the number of centers hosting abused women; rehabilitation and integration of the disabled; raising pensions and providing care to the elderly; doubling compensations disbursed to martyrs families and the injured; and "Awareness" programme aimed at the eradication of child abuse, women abuse, female genital mutilation (FGM), early marriage, and human trafficking along with toughening the penalties pertaining to such crimes.

The Ministry of Social Solidarity revealed last week a project to train women in Menya, Qena, and Luxor governorates on business management, and finance their micro enterprises.  

The value of the project is LE55,999,745, and it includes providing technical support, follow-up, supervision on the projects' implementation, and securing a headquarters for each of the enterprises.

The beneficiaries will be women enrolled in the monetary subsidies programme Takaful w Karama so as 25,000 will be trained on business management, 2,250 on livestock farming, and 300 on handicrafts.

Moreover, 8,750 will be micro-financed, and 1,000 livestock enterprises will be granted insurance. Further, 66 instructors will be qualified to deliver the training, and 110 workers will be prepared to carry out follow-up on the progress of the projects.