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The Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development (SCPUD)
In coordination with
H.E. The Governor and City Municipal Council
Governorate's
Strategic Master
Plan
Cities/ Villages
Detailed Plan
Economic, Social and
Enviornmental Issues
Building Types
and Regulations
Infrastructure
Networks/ Plans
Figure 13 Coordination between the SCPUD and Governorates
These two banks are the main public banks that fund the development of governmental housing
projects and private housing in governorates and urban areas within the legal jurisdiction of the
governorates’ official cardoons. Governorates and Municipal Councils can take loans from these banks
to finance their housing projects in coordination with MoHUUD and MoLD as specified above. The Law
No. 43 of year 1979, regulates the structure of the governorate’s financial transactions through the
central bank of Egypt. However, established Governorates’ Special Funds (GSFs) generate revenues to
fund governorates’ projects and can deal with public banks.
For Egypt, seven main areas were recognized by the National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) to be
tackled between the year 2002 and 2017. Among these areas are water, land, solid waste
management, and biodiversity 21 :
• Water: improving sanitation coverage for urban and rural areas, with implementing low-cost nonconventional
treatment technologies and increasing potentiality for wastewater reuse.
• Land: targeting sound environmental management of urban settlements, including the
development of new settlements with essential infrastructure services to decrease dependency on
primary cities, thus limiting commute distance. This is expected to increase the inhabited areas of
Egypt from 4 per cent to 25 per cent; provide access to land for the inhabitants, and secure tenure;
and upgrade slums and squatter settlements.
• Solid Waste Management: targeting the development and implementation of an integrated
system for waste collection and recycling including the design and production of containers and
trucks and involvement of the private sector.
• Biodiversity: conserving biodiversity resources, including the promotion of eco-tourism projects
and contributing to the regional development of South Sinai.
The following sections present the relative legislative framework on a series of sectors that are within
the SECAPs’ scope, or affiliated with it.
4.3.1 Building Sector
The building sector in Egypt is significantly influenced by the rapid growth in population, estimated in
2016 at 2.5 per cent yearly 22 , and urban development. This proportionally causes a huge development
rate in this sector and consequently an urban sprawl. Such tendency is making the construction sector
to lead other sectors and be one of the fastest growing sectors of Egypt’s economy. The construction
sector formed an average of 6.3 per cent of the National GDP in 2015, and consequently causing the
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