The official spokesman of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Ahmed Al-Sharif, has announced allocation of funds in the new budget for fiscal 2022 to complete the projects of reconstruction in East Sudan implemented by the East Reconstruction Fund, stressing commitment of the ministry to complete implementation of projects whose implementation rate reached more than 70% as part of state appropriations of self-resources.
The official spokesman for the ministry expected that the Kuwait fund for development would respond and start pumping funding to complete projects for reconstruction of East Sudan in the states of Red Sea, Kassala and Gedaref.
Al-Sharif indicated that a delegation from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, headed by Director of International and Regional Finance Institutions Department, is now conducting a field visit to the eastern states to see the progress of implementation in grant and loan projects financed by the Kuwait fund for development to identify the level of achievement and the obstacles that accompanied implementation and to propose possible solutions, in order to be able to make an integrated report to be submitted to the management of the Kuwait fund and to discuss with it how to complete the shortfall in important development projects in the fields of health, technical education, electricity and water.
Al-Sharif indicated that the visit will end next Tuesday in preparation for submitting an integrated report after completion of visits by other teams to the states of Sudan, which have interventions from the Kuwait fund that include Northern, White Nile, Gezira and some states of Darfur in addition to Eastern Sudan.
