Mansour bin Zayed reviews the strategy of the “Emirates Council for Balanced Development”

His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the UAE, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Presidential Office, reviewed the strategy of the “Emirates Council for Balanced Development”, which aims to create economic opportunities, improve the quality of life, and provide decent means of life for the people of the Emirates in all regions of the country.

His Highness discussed with His Highness Sheikh Theyab bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Office for Development Affairs and Families of Martyrs, the most prominent strategic axes and work mechanisms, in addition to future projects through which the Council is working to develop more villages and regions and enhance their economic and tourism potential in a manner appropriate With the nature of each region.

His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan stressed, “The leadership of the UAE is keen to provide everything that would achieve social stability, improve the quality of life, and provide the needs and requirements of citizens in all regions of the country, in a way that establishes the comprehensiveness of sustainable development and reaps its fruits and its direct impact on the lives of citizens.” And all families and individuals in the UAE community.”

His Highness Sheikh Theyab bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan also stressed, “The concerted efforts of all, the participation of government agencies and private sector institutions, and working hand in hand with the people of the areas being developed, is the basis for achieving development goals, raising the quality of life of the people of those areas and achieving sustainable development.” “.

His Highness said, “Work is continuing on the Council’s projects, in accordance with the vision of the wise leadership to create a sustainable development model that is in line with comprehensive and sustainable national development efforts, and takes into account the privacy and special nature of the regions in the country, in order to maximize the use of its human potential and natural resources.”

During the meeting, His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan reviewed the strategy, which focuses on all operational and practical areas while identifying various strategic initiatives, goals, and updates that will accelerate the pace of work and achievement, in addition to the requirements for developing facilities and services in villages and regions to be among the best tourist destinations. and development in the country.

The strategy attaches great importance to sustainability and social responsibility initiatives by relying on an integrated set of metrics and key performance indicators to track the progress of strategic initiatives and measure their results. The Council’s strategy is based on an integrated set of axes aimed at developing balanced development projects, managing their workflow, and coordinating with relevant ministries and local authorities. Regarding the development plans for villages and regions and the timetable for implementation, and approving the proposed areas of partnership with the private sector, especially national companies.

The projects of the Emirates Council for Balanced Development also 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, launching commercial and economic projects to absorb the energies of youth, and raising awareness of the dimension Historical and archaeological areas of the areas 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 diversified mini-economies through an integrated set of programs that include “productive farms,” “supporting creative and craft industries,” in addition to the “job opportunity” program to create job opportunities for people in rural areas.

While the community axis focuses on enhancing family and social cohesion, a number of its goals were launched within the package of community initiatives during the annual government meetings, including the following: the “Shabab Vigor” program, which aims to develop and support youth activities, events, and hobbies, in addition to establishing sports facilities aimed at the participation of more than 50,000 people. Participant… while the “Support for Senior Citizens” program is concerned with organizing activities and initiatives for senior citizens that ensure the transfer of their experiences to future generations and focuses on providing 10 spaces for them that provide social, health, entertainment and sports services… while The “Supporting Family Cohesion” program aims to enhance family cohesion, mental health, and women’s support, in addition to launching educational platforms, and targets more than a thousand participants. As for the “Emirates Councils” program, it aims to build 10 councils in villages and regions to be a headquarters for community events and activities.

As for the tourism axis, it aims to create tourist destinations and organize unique tourism festivals and events through the Emirates Villages programs and the Tourism Support Fund.

While the cultural axis aims to enhance local heritage and culture, including promoting, documenting, and preserving the cultural and historical depth of villages and rural areas by designing cultural tourism experiences with the people of the regions and developing the skills and products of artisans in them. The axis also includes documenting the historical dimension of the regions and customs in cooperation with universities and students, in addition. To activate public spaces in order to create an interactive artistic environment inspired by the culture and nature of the region.

In order to achieve the Council’s promising strategy, a series of media campaigns will be launched to highlight the most important components and landmarks contained in the developed areas and villages, in a way that enhances their presence on the domestic tourism map in the country, in addition to enhancing cooperation with various partners in the government and private sectors.

It is noteworthy that the “Emirates Villages” project was 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 to develop the “Qadfa” region of the Emirate of Fujairah was launched to be the first of the “Emirates Villages” projects that comes within The Emirates Council’s strategy for balanced development and its efforts aimed at developing remote areas in the country through a sustainable development model in January 2023… in addition to the project to develop the “Masfoot” area in Ajman as part of the Emirates Villages projects. In June of the same year…and within the package of community initiatives launched by His Highness Sheikh Dhiyab bin Mohammed Al Nahyan in 2024, the Council implemented a number of community initiatives and programmes.