

Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication Organizes a Seminar on the “Haya Karima” Initiative
Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication Organizes a Seminar on the “Haya Karima” Initiative
12 Mar 2023The Community Service and Environmental Development Sector of the Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication organized a seminar on the importance of youth joining the “Haya Karima” (Decent Life) Initiative on Monday, February 27, 2023. The seminar hosted two distinguished speakers, Ms. Sarah Eid, Head of the Transparency and Community Engagement Unit at the Ministry of Finance, and Dr. Hesham El-Helbawy, Assistant to the Minister of Local Development for National Projects, Local Administration Development, and Egyptian Rural Development.
Ms. Eid discussed the national model for participatory budgeting, which ensures transparency, participation, and community accountability to meet the needs of citizens and improve the quality of public services. She also added that the Transparency Unit at the Ministry of Finance seeks to transform the innovative ideas of university students in the field of community service into tangible reality and prepare them to become “ambassadors for budget awareness” to achieve the ministry’s goals of transparency and financial disclosure.
Dr. El-Helbawy, for his part, talked about the concept of development and how to foster local development in Egypt. He also discussed the Egyptian Rural Development Program, “Haya Karima (Decent Life), which aims to achieve balanced and integrated development in all rural and urban areas across Egypt.





