Majali highlights key role played by governors

AMMAN — Interior Minister Hussein Majali on Saturday underscored the important role played by administrative leaders in bringing about and propelling comprehensive development.

At a ceremony marking the launch of dialogue sessions for governors and administrative leaders, Majali said their role currently includes safeguarding investments and creating a secure and administrative environment which is necessary for attracting further investments, especially in the remote governorates. 

This role requires extra effort on the part of administrators and an efficient partnership with various parties, he said, pointing out that a developmental role is the first step to achieving administrative decentralisation. 

Several governors, administrators and representatives of concerned entities attended the event. 

Highlighting the importance of a partnership between the public and private sectors in the drive towards comprehensive development, Majali said the dialogue sessions between the ministry and private sector institutions seek to increase the exchange of ideas and views, and draw up strategies to overcome economic and development obstacles that may face the different governorates.  

Organised by the Interior Ministry, in cooperation with several other ministries and relevant institutions, the dialogue sessions will address several economic, social and developmental issues, with the aim of enhancing the role of administrators in providing better services for citizens. 

Addressing those in attendance, Public Sector Development Minister Khleef Al Khawaldeh noted that achieving decentralisation and boosting development requires an awareness of the important role that administrative leaders and governorates’ executive councils play in providing citizens with services similar to those offered in Amman. 

The sessions, to be held every Saturday and run until the end of June, will cover several issues, including decentralisation, the national tourism strategy and industrial development estates. 

They will also deal with several development, management and foreign policy issues as well as preparing budgets that take into account the financial decentralisation at the governorate level.