2.3.4  Agencies of the Line Ministries 

Directorates of Various Ministries at the Local Level 

The directorates of various ministries and agencies at the local level are the branches of 

central government that are actually implementing the State general policy. 

Some directorates have decentralized functions and budgets from their central concerned 

ministries and some have decentralized functions from their central respective ministries 

but not their budget appropriations. 

A.  Directorates with Decentralized Functions and Budgets 

There are 12 service ministries and central agencies that decentralized their functions and 

transferred them to the governorate level together with their field staff budgets. These are: 

Ministry of Education  

Ministry of Health and Population 

Ministry of Housing and Utilities 

Ministry of Supply and Domestic Trade 

Ministry of Social Affairs 

Ministry of Agriculture 

Ministry of Labor Force and Vocational Training 

Ministry of Transportation 

Ministry of Youth and Sport 

Real Estate Taxes (affiliated to Ministry of Finance) 

Central Agency for Organization and Administration (affiliated to Ministry of 

Administrative Development). 

Veterinary Medicine (Affiliated to Ministry of Agriculture). 

Although the Executive Regulations No. 707 of 1979 concerning Law of Local 

Administration No. 43 of 1979 stipulate that the branches in governorates of the above 

ministries and central agencies work under the direct supervision of the governor, these 

branches in reality are only affiliated with respect to administration to the governor and are 

still technically affiliated to central ministries.  

The creation of branches in governorates for the above mentioned central ministries can be 

considered in reality an attempt to achieve administrative decentralization that has not 

greatly been realized in practice. 

B. 

Directorates with Partial Decentralized Functions  

The directorates with partial decentralized functions but not their field staff budgets are: 

Interior Affaires, Industry, Electricity, Water resources and irrigation, Economic affairs, 

Land reclamation, Culture, Information, Tourism, El Azhar, Awqaf, Ministry of Finance and 

Ministry of Planning. 

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