His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the State and Prime Minister and head of the Presidential Bureau, briefed on the strategy of the Emirates Balanced Development Council, which aims to create economic opportunities, improve the quality of life, and provide a decent life for the people of the Emirates in all regions of the country .
His Highness discussed with His Highness Sheikh Dhiab bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the Presidency for Development Affairs and Families of Martyrs, the most prominent axes of strategy and work mechanisms, in addition to future projects through which the Council works to develop more villages and regions and enhance their economic and tourism capabilities in proportion to With the nature of each region.
His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan stressed, “The leadership of the UAE’s leadership to provide everything that would achieve social stability, improve the quality of life and provide the needs of citizens and their requirements in all regions of the country, in a way that establishes the comprehensiveness of sustainable development and reaps its fruits, and directly reflecting on the lives of citizens and all Families and individuals in the UAE community.
His Highness Sheikh Dhiab bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan also stressed that in conjunction with the “Year of Society”, the Council aims to enhance family and social cohesion, through initiatives and programs for the family, senior citizens and youth.
His Highness added that “all efforts, the participation of government agencies and private sector institutions, and working hand in hand with the people of the regions being developed, is the basis for the achievement of the targets of development, and raising the quality of the lives of the people of those areas and achieving sustainable development.”
His Highness said that “work continues in the projects of the Council, according to the vision of the wise leadership to create a sustainable development model, in line with comprehensive and sustainable national development efforts, and takes into account the privacy and the special nature of the regions in the country in order to maximize the benefit of its human capabilities and natural resources.”
During the meeting, His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan reviewed the strategy that focuses on all operational and practical fields, while identifying various strategic initiatives, goals, and updates that accelerate the pace of work and achievement, in addition to the requirements for developing facilities and services in villages and regions to be one of the best tourist destinations And development in the state.
The strategy attaches great importance to sustainability and social responsibility initiatives, by relying on an integrated set of standards and main performance indicators, to track the progress of strategic initiatives and measure their results, and the council’s strategy is based on an integrated set of axes aimed at developing balanced development projects and managing their workflow, and coordination with local ministries and entities In concern about the development plans of villages, regions and the timeline for implementation, and the adoption of the proposed partnership areas with the private sector, especially national companies.
The projects of the Emirates Balanced Development Council aim to enhance the quality of life in all regions of the country and build a sustainable development model that provides economic and investment opportunities that achieve social stability and a decent life for the residents of these regions, by focusing on development axes, and launching commercial and economic projects to accommodate youth energies, and awareness With the historical and archaeological dimension of the regions that are being developed as an important part of the history of the UAE.
The council’s strategy is based on four basic axes with the aim of achieving comprehensive growth in rural areas, and includes economic, societal, tourism and cultural axes.
The economic axis aims to create mini -economies through an integrated group of programs that include “productive farms”, “support for creative and craftsmanship”, in addition to the “job opportunity” program to create job opportunities for the people of rural areas.
While the community axis focuses on enhancing family and social cohesion, as a number of its targets were launched within the package of community initiatives during the annual government meetings, including the following: The “Youth Valness” program that aims to develop youth activities, their activities, their hobbies and support, along with the establishment of sports facilities aimed at the participation of more than 50 thousand participants , While the “Support of Senior Citizens” program is concerned with organizing activities and initiatives for senior citizens that guarantee the transfer of their expertise to future generations and focuses on providing 10 spaces for them providing social, health, recreational and sports services, while the “Support Family Cohesion” program aims to enhance family bonding, mental health and support women in addition to The launch of educational platforms, and it targets more than a thousand participants.
As for the tourism axis, it aims to create tourist destinations and organize unique tourism festivals and events through the programs of the Emirates villages and the Tourism Support Fund.
While the cultural axis aims to enhance local heritage and culture, including promotion, documentation and preserving the cultural and historical depth of villages and rural areas through designing cultural tourism experiences with the people The public spaces to find an interactive artistic environment inspired by the culture and nature of the region.
In order to achieve the promising strategy of the Council, a series of media campaigns will be launched to highlight the most important ingredients and landmarks contained in the developed regions and villages in a way that enhances its presence on the map of domestic tourism in the country, as well as enhancing cooperation with the various partners in the government and private sectors.
It is noteworthy that the “Emirates Villages” project launched during the month of November 2022 with the aim of developing a sustainable development model, and creating economic and investment opportunities that achieve social stability and a decent life, while the project of developing the “Qudaya” region of the Emirate of Fujairah was launched to be the first projects of “Emirates Villages” to come within the strategy The Emirates Council for Balanced Development and its efforts aimed at developing remote areas in the country through a sustainable development model in January 2023, along with the project to develop the “Musfout” area in Ajman within the projects of the Emirates villages in June of the same year. Within the societal initiatives package launched by His Highness Sheikh Dhiab bin Muhammad Al Nahyan in 2024, the Council implemented a number of societal initiatives and programs.
Mansour bin Zayed:
• The leadership of the UAE is keen to achieve social stability, and to provide the needs and requirements of citizens in all regions of the country.
Dhiab bin Muhammad:
• Since its inception, the Council’s projects have been a successful model for comprehensive development in regions and villages.
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