The UAE under the leadership of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has underlined the principle of integration established by founding father Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and institutionalised the making of the future to achieve the UAE Centennial 2071 goals
This was stated by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on his Twitter account.
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid was speaking following the opening of the second annual government meetings on Monday, which aim to highlight programmes and efforts undertaken to meet the UAE Vision 2021 and targets set for the next 10 years in addition to developing plans and strategies that lay the foundation for the UAE Centennial 2071.
“The aim of the meetings is to answer two questions: Where did we get today as a state? And where do we want to get in the next 50 years?” he said.
His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, stressed that the UAE is striving to build a better future for next generations on a comprehensive integration formula that brings together all the federal and local government bodies to prepare for tomorrow’s challenges.
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid and Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed chaired the meetings where seven national strategies that outline the early stages of implementing the UAE Centennial 2071 in vital sectors were presented.
They praised the pivotal role of the annual government meetings in uniting the efforts to strengthen the spirit of the Union and support the development process. They urged ministerial teams to redouble their efforts and work together at an accelerated pace and to invest opportunities to achieve the goals of UAE Centennial 2071.
The meetings adopted seven strategies with 100 initiatives.
Dr Ahmad Bin Abdullah Humaid Al Falasi, Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills, presented the advanced skills strategy; Sara Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Science, reviewed the advanced science strategy; Omar Bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, presented the strategy for artificial intelligence; Mariam Al Muhairi, Minister of State for Future Food Security, presented the national strategy for food security, and Noora Mohammad Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, presented the UAE’s cultural agenda.
Ohoud Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness and presented the National Strategy for Quality of Life.
The National Employment Strategy 2031 seeks to increase the participation of citizens in the labour market by enhancing women’s participation and increasing Emiratisation rates in value-added economic sectors, the most important of which are the energy, communications, technology, transport and storage sectors, the financial, health and educational sectors, UAE in the areas of artificial intelligence, space, digital transactions and advanced science, Nasser Bin Thani Al Hameli, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, told the gathering.
Al Hameli said it is expected that the total national forces working in the government and private sectors will grow to about 610,000 citizens by 2031.
It also aims to support the Government’s efforts to build a knowledge-based economy by empowering labor productivity, increasing the number of R & D personnel, and promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship.
The meetings aim to highlight programmes and efforts undertaken to meet the UAE Vision 2021 and targets set for the next 10 years in addition to developing plans and strategies that lay the foundation for the UAE Centennial 2071.
The event began with an overview of the outcomes and accomplishments achieved in 2017 and to which extent they keep with the 2021 vision.
Unification on the cards
The second UAE Centennial 2071 meetings mark the launch of more than 100 initiatives, projects and seven strategies in vital sectors that will pave the way for the next 10 years, as well as six sessions of knowledge and lectures in leadership, government administration, artificial intelligence and others.
The UAE Cabinet has approved the annual meetings to unify all UAE government entities at the federal and local levels, and discuss the challenges and strategies for achieving the ‘UAE Centennial 2071’ goals.
The first round was a remarkable success, culminating in the launch of five long-term strategies: the UAE Soft Power Strategy, the UAE Higher Education Strategy, the UAE’s 4th Industrial Revolution Strategy, the UAE Water Security Strategy 2036, and the launch of more than 100 national initiatives in more than 30 sectors.
“The UAE’s annual government meetings encapsulate the unified, integrated work model adopted by the nation’s leadership to meet the requirements of today’s world to build more open and interactive governments, in terms of information exchange, policy development or resource sharing, Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, said in his keynote speech at the opening session.
Al Gergawi stressed that nowhere in the world does the population of a country show a more acute awareness and understanding of the phrase “unity is strength” than in the UAE.
“The UAE has a distinct regional and global stature, which poses challenges that call for a different way of thinking in the future of many vital sectors such as knowledge-based economy, renewable energy, education, health and future government services.... The world we live in is undergoing rapid changes … Our role is to work as a team to keep up with the changes and to be the fastest growing country to invest opportunities to create new sectors,” Al Gergawi said.
The National Strategy for Food Security was launched. It aims at developing a comprehensive national system based on enabling sustainable food production through the use of modern technologies and technologies, enhancing local production, developing international partnerships to diversify food sources and activating legislation and policies that contribute to improving nutrition and reducing Waste to ensure food security in all conditions and stages.
Mariam Al Muhairi, State minister for Food Security, said we aim to make the UAE the world’s best in the World Food Security Index by 2051, and among the top 10 countries by 2021.
The National Strategy for Food Security includes 38 short and long-term key initiatives within the 2051 Vision and 2021 Agenda, through five strategic directions focusing on facilitating the global food trade, diversifying food import sources, and identifying alternative supply schemes covering three to five sources For each major food category, especially that the value of imports of food products last year amounted to Dh53 billion, exports Dh10 billion, and re-exported Dh8.5 billion.
SOURCE : GULFNEWS