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Nevertheless, the new law of Local Development would give governorates a more decentralised role
to support the legal institutions and economic growth, and to contribute in achieving Egypt’s Vision
2030, SD Strategy 2030 and SD Goals (SDGs), namely: SDG 7, SDG 11, SDG 12, and SDG 13.
1.3 Recommendations
• The CES‐MED project implementation in Egypt is an excellent project including its tools to support
local authority (governorates) in achieving urban sustainable energy savings in cities through the
smooth execution of SEAPs (SECAPs).
• The SEAPs (SECAPs) also contributes towards achieving Egypt’s Vision 2030 and Sustainable
Development Strategy (SDS) 2030 that were boldly launched in February 2016.
• The CES-MED project can contribute to the most relevant sectoral pillars of Egypt SDS 2030,
mainly: a) Energy; b) Environment; c) Urban development; and d) Policies.
• Governorates need support, budget, knowledge management, enhancing skills and know-how as
well as capacity building and training to reduce emissions using the Baseline Emissions Inventory
(BEI).
Short Term Recommendations
Governorates that will initiate SEAP (SECAP) need to assign a responsible Strategic Unit to promote
Sustainable Energy (Renewable Energy - RE and Energy Efficiency - EE). This recommended Strategic
Unit is intended to have a specialised Energy Efficiency Manager (EEM) for the development and
implementation of related plans and projects, and to assist in meeting the current and future
challenges at the governorate level. At the national level, this may be regulated through the update of
the Local Development Law, currently under approval. A suggestion is to include this in the framework
of the governorate. For the smaller municipalities (cities), this function could be hosted at the proposed
Governorate’s Joint Services Council (JSC) for Sustainable Energy (SE). Figure 2 depicts the proposed
suggestion where both scenarios, knowledge and experience in initiating, developing and managing
SEAPs (SECAPs), and executing and monitoring results could be supported by NREA in an initial phase.
Also, a database Unit on Sustainable Development (SD) and Sustainable Energy (RE and EE) could be
established in the two governorates’ structures to assist in future planning and decision making
processes based on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and foresight approaches and scenarios
supported by the BEIs.
The SEAP (SECAP) would assist in developing and implementing the above aiming at saving energy in
small cities like that of Luxor and Hurghada.
To ensure access to relevant information for the governorates to lower CO 2 emissions, information
using the BEI is vital to be recognised and developed on the short term (Figure 2), including:
a) Establish robust and effective planning tools to encourage the private sector to develop RE and EE
projects and building factories for producing PV cells, and providing them low-interest rate loans
and other benefits to promote green and clean energy in the two governorates.
b) The Strategic SD and SE Unit in the governorate structure and framework is shown in Figure 3
(below), where an Energy Efficiency Manager (EEM) will be in direct contact with the Governorate’s
General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary, and perhaps the Governorate’s Executive
Council in order to ensure compliance, and to accelerate the implementation of the planning tools
and relevant updates as well as executing RE and EE projects to achieve sustainable measures and
Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) action plans in a wider scope, contributing to achieving Egypt’s
Vision and SD Strategy 2030.
The proposed strategic approach and recommendations of institutional framework for the
Government and local authorities is illustrated in Figure 2. It shows that the E‐database needs to be
accessible for the two Governorates for data relevant to the development of SEAP (SECAP) in order to
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