“Finance System” governance is enhanced to increase public spending effectiveness.

• “Financial Directorates” are getting developed and digitalized to ensure optimal utilization of the State resources.
• To cope with “Digital Egypt”, Gov’t is keen to upgrade government work patterns.
• Coordination is made with Qena University to develop public finance and accounting

Governor of Qena:

Highest appreciation is expressed for the development and automation efforts of “expenditures and revenues” governance procedures.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohamed Maait, asserted that the development and digitalization of “Financial Directorates” is one of the main pillars relied upon to strengthen the State’s financial system governance, raise the efficiency of financial performance in the administrative authorities, ensure optimal utilization of the State resources, and rationalize public spending and management of financial allocations. The aforementioned measures are adopted in an attempt to lay the foundations for comprehensive and sustainable development, in terms of “Egypt 2030” vision, and to improve standard of living and services provided to citizens.

The minister said, during the inauguration of the headquarters of the Financial Directorate in Qena, accompanied by Major General Ashraf Daoudi, Governor of Qena, that: “we are keen to update government work patterns to match the transformation to Digital Egypt”, explaining that automation and other measures aim to improve the work environment and achieve citizens’ satisfaction with service level, which is the desired goal of any development and helps to lay the foundations of transparency, impartiality, integrity and equal opportunities among service recipients.

He indicated his keenness to improve the work environment in the financial directorates, to lay the foundations of the digital transformation, and to develop human capabilities by focusing on training workers according to the latest international experiences, since it is the main pillar of human development and the biggest guarantee to raise the level of performance and achieve comprehensive quality in the various sectors and departments of the Ministry of Finance.

On the other side, Governor of Qena, Major General Ashraf Daoudi, expressed his appreciation for the fruitful efforts made by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohamed Maait, as related to development and automation in order to strengthen the governance of expenditures and revenues procedures. He also praised the electronic implementation of the State’s general budget, which contributed to providing instant data to governors on the executive position of their governorates’ budgets so as to ensure the achievement of fiscal discipline.

On his part, Head of Accounts and Financial Directorates Sector, Mr. Imad Awad, said that the new headquarters in Qena are equipped with the latest technologies, so as to ensure that work systems are fully automated, in a way that contributes to raising performance efficiency and saving time and effort, indicating that this headquarters is a new model for developing work environment and digital transformation according to the latest international experiences and practices, to ensure the achievement of comprehensive quality and the improvement of the level of services provided to citizens.

The training programs for workers have been standardized and developed in accordance with the latest international standards and experiences to include specialized and technological aspects, leadership and professional management skills. This comes in line with the efforts of the Ministry of Finance in laying the foundations of digital transformation, in a manner that ensures the good governance of the state’s public finance, as added by Mr. Awad.

He further explained that the opening of this headquarter comes within the framework of the project of developing the headquarters of the financial directorates, pointing out that 22 developed headquarters have been opened so far. He also added that a training center has been established in the Qena’s Financial Directorate to ensure the sustainability of workers’ eligibility, in a manner that enables them to duly perform their job duties. There is fruitful cooperation with the University of Qena to develop curricula in the field of public finance and accounting, especially given the recent advanced electronic financial systems developed by the Ministry of Finance, he noted.