Almotamar.net, Saba - The Cabinet discussed on Tuesday during the weekly sitting chaired by Premier Ali Mujawar draft laws on cleanliness and environment health funds and public health and environment.

The two laws were presented by Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs, Minister of Local Administration, Rashad al-Alimi.

A decision on the two laws will be made in the next meeting.

The meeting ratified a grant agreement worth 6.6 million special drawing rights (SDR) signed with the International Finance Corporation for funding the institutional support project of the Social Fund for Development.

The project aims to increase the shares of the poor families among the beneficiaries from the cash project and contribute to building the human capital of the beneficiaries from the Social Fund for Development in target areas.

The grant will be allocated for three main parts: the first is special for improving the cash program aiming to provide goods, consultancy, training, additional operational costs for boosting targeting, management and administrative operations of the program through a strategy focused on fighting poverty as well as measures for supervising and evaluating the performance of the fund.

The second part involves preparing and presenting the beneficiary development program through preparing a set of the best practices in raising awareness among the beneficiaries from the fund in three governorates and conducting surveys in the experimental areas.

The third part involves providing goods, consultancy, training and additional operational costs for the project support team to build the capacity of the fund staff and supporting coordination, execution, supervision and evaluation of the project management.

The meeting also reviewed the note of Minister of State, Mayor of the Secretariat Capital, over Koran memorization schools and the importance of boosting supervision on them and their role in serving Koran. It ordered the schools should get licenses from the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance for their operations.


The cabinet has also considered security report presented by the Minister if Interior regarding security situations in the country, their developments the efforts made by security authorities in combating the crime, including fighting terrorist activities and tracking down terrorist elements.

The cabinet praised the heroic acts of armed forces and the security in repelling and confronting the terrorist elements and hitting their hideouts, affirming the government support to efforts of security institutions.

Some reports were reviewed in the meeting including those on the outcomes of the tenth round of the Indian Ocean Rim-Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC), the security situation in the country and the functional discipline in Ramadan.