This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – follow-up
The High Council of Accounts has published its annual report on the state of the national economy and public finances and its monitoring of numerous public institutions. This report included interesting data that we will try to publish for you in subsequent articles on the pages of Heba Press.
In this report, the Council addressed the situation of newly developed cities, where it stated that in the area of housing, and taking into account the high rate of urbanization, which currently approaches 62.8%, a program for the creation of four new cities was launched. , since 2004, with the aim of reducing pressure on large cities, creating territorial dynamism and facing the challenges of demographic and spatial growth.
The current indicators of this program, according to the report, show the limited results recorded, since the percentage of its population has not exceeded 17% and the percentage of completed units has not exceeded 20% of the objectives envisaged by the creation of these new cities, and the percentage of completion of public facilities did not exceed 26%, while the percentage of investments made was around 58% of those evaluated.
This situation, in addition to the absence of a legal framework relating to new towns, is due to the inconsistency of public initiatives to create them with the orientations of national documents for the preparation and reconstruction of the territory, to the absence of studies prerequisites of social and economic feasibility, the lack of coordination between sectoral approaches and the limited commitment to complete public facilities.
Added to this is the inability to control the reconstruction processes near the new cities and the failure of the partnership with the private sector to achieve all the desired objectives, since it was found that 52% of the agreements concluded between the the state and the private sector in this context have been canceled.
In order to overcome the obstacles that prevent the achievement of the objectives of their creation, it is necessary to elevate the leadership of new city projects to a strategic level guaranteeing the coherence of interventions, convergence and effective coordination between the different parties involved, and to develop a rehabilitation plan for the four new cities which includes an overall vision of their development, including aspects related to territorial integration, functional role, urban mobility, provision of facilities and equipment and to maintenance within a contractual framework between the State, local authorities and public actors responsible for implementing the rehabilitation plan, specifying the obligations. Funding for each sector concerned.
