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Alexandria, Egypt
Located in northern Egypt, Alexandria is a port city situated on the Mediterranean Sea.
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City population
5,469,430
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Member since
2024
Mayor
Alexandria Governor Mr Mohamed Elshereef
Vision
Alexandria, aligning with Egypt’s Vision 2030, aims for sustainable development with a focus on human development. The city’s goals as a learning city include resource mobilization, capacity assessment and digital support services. Priority areas encompass international knowledge sharing, with a specific focus on youth programmes, initiatives to enhance literacy, and the development of community schools.
Within the framework of Egypt’s Vision 2030, the Alexandria Governorate is working to mobilize all its resources and establish partnerships with civil society in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development, especially education and health.
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Alexandria Governor Mr Mohamed Elshereef
Mayor of Alexandria
Policies, plan and implementation
Sustainability and health
The city is committed to Egypt’s Vision 2030 and the National Strategy for Population and Development 2030. It actively advances health care through initiatives like the 100 Million health programme to detect non-communicable diseases and national efforts to eradicate the Hepatitis C virus. Education is a central focus, with leaders and workers trained to integrate sustainability objectives into projects, bolstering the city’s capacity to support education for sustainable development.
Equity and inclusion
The commitment to providing education for all is enshrined in Egypt’s Vision 2030. Key principles include providing free public education, building schools in underserved areas, improving infrastructure access, offering government services to at-risk students, conducting awareness campaigns and forming subcommittees to address drop-out rates, down to the individual student level.
Decent work and entrepreneurship
Alexandria is dedicated to incorporating decent work and entrepreneurship into its Learning City strategy, fostering collaboration between institutions and civil society. The city addresses regional unemployment issues through local plans and central entrepreneurship initiatives. Programmes such as population committees and the Burj Al Arab Centre monitor and propose solutions for overcoming local obstacles to entrepreneurship, emphasizing decentralized programme management principles to achieve optimal results.
Good practices
Alexandria Training Centre
The Alexandria Training Centre offers free training programmes to foster skills development and professional growth among the city’s workforce. It aims to ensure equal training and capacity-building opportunities for all civilian workers within its administrative structure.