MSMEDA, EU, AFD cooperate to develop informal settlements

evine Gamea, Executive Director of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA), said that the agency works within the framework of an integrated system to improve the living standards of thousands of families in informal settlements.

Gamea praised the continuous cooperation between MSMEDA and the Ministry of International Cooperation in concluding agreements with various donors and international agencies to implement development projects that serve the Egyptian society.

This came in a speech delivered by Gamea at the celebration of the end of the first phase and the launch of the second phase of the urban upgrading program and the promotion of job opportunities in slums in the governorates of Cairo and Giza. The event took place in the presence of Khaled Abdel-Al, Governor of Cairo, Ahmed Rashid, Governor of Giza, Christian Berger, Ambassador of the European Union, and Matthew Wasser, Regional Director of the French Agency for Development in North Africa and Rafael Martin de Lagarde, representative of the French Embassy in Cairo.