Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities Assem El Gazzar has met with Zimbabwe’s Minister of National Housing and Social Amenities Daniel Garwe, and his accompanying delegation to showcase the Egyptian urban experience in its various facets, Invest-Gate reports.

The meeting, attended by officials from the ministry, the New Urban Communities Authority, and the Social Housing Fund and Mortgage Finance Support, focused on presenting Egypt’s urban experience across different domains, including providing housing units for low-income citizens, developing unsafe areas, establishing and fostering new cities, infrastructure projects, and other urban development aspects.

Moreover, El Gazzar welcomed his Zimbabwean counterpart and delegation to their second home, Egypt, affirming Egypt’s readiness to share its expertise and successes in urban development and extend support to their Zimbabwean counterparts.

The ministers held meetings to facilitate the transfer of Egyptian expertise and enhance cooperation between the two countries.

Furthermore, El Gazzar emphasized that Egypt’s current urban renaissance is an implementation of the outputs of the National Strategic Urban Development Plan “Egypt 2052”, adopted by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Most of the plan’s outputs have already been achieved and executed, surpassing the designated timeframes.

Notably, the plan’s primary goal is to double the inhabited areas to approximately 14% of Egypt’s total area. Egypt is currently developing these areas, which previously constituted only 6-7% of the country’s total area before 2014. A network of roads and axes has been implemented to serve as vital links between existing urban areas and new development zones to achieve this goal.