May 27, 2008 

On May 27, 2008, Prof. Dr. Saad Nassar's Convention Hall hosted a seminar entitled "Planning for Development and the Civil and Social Participation". The seminar was steered by Prof. Dr. Abdel Azim Mohamed Mustafa, dean of Faculty of Agriculture- Fayoum University.

Main Pivots:
*The role of planning in the free economy and the importance of the regional role in setting out the plan objectives and executing them; the role of the civil society and the cooperative and civil societies; apart from what the private sector shoulders of developmental burdens which exceed more than 70% of the total investment and the resulting economic mechanisms

*The progress of the regional planning and the division of the state into territories

The seminar had concluded that:  
*Giving the governors the full authority to distribute the general budget
*Backing the participation of the civil society and the nongovernmental organizations in executing the developmental project in the nationwide
*Preparing high-caliber officials in the local on how to select and execute the projects or setting up funds to fund the projects which should go according the environmental and regional circumstances in every governorate, town and village
*The necessity to extend in setting up new towns in the desert as an important step in planning the integrated development to alleviate the overburden existing in the valley; not to mention the developmental targets tied to setting up new societies