Minister of Municipality and Housing: 11,000 opportunities to support small and medium enterprises

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The Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, Mr. Majid bin Abdullah Al Haqeel, stressed that the ministry has offered about 11,000 opportunities to support small and medium enterprises over the past years, giving more space to obtain job opportunities that suit individuals.

His Excellency stressed that the ministry has offered about 11,000 opportunities to support small and medium enterprises in recent years. This came during his participation in a panel discussion yesterday at Biban Forum 23 entitled “The importance of entrepreneurship for economic development and growth of promising sectors in the Kingdom,” stressing the importance of entrepreneurs" participation in the growth and economic contributions of various sectors.

Haqeel stressed the importance of entrepreneurship in the growth and economic contributions of various sectors.

The <a style="color: #993300" href="https://amlak.net.Al-Haqeel, to the various opportunities offered by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing to support development under the umbrella of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, stressing that entrepreneurs and businessmen in all their categories are partners in decision-making, adding, ”We work with them through chambers of commerce and the third sector and today we have more than 11 committees within the ministry in which they are members and we continue to strengthen this partnership.”

Haqeel said. He explained that many programs and initiatives have been launched to accelerate and facilitate the pace of work of the private sector and create new opportunities for entrepreneurs and the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises with the aim of raising the contribution of small and medium enterprises from 20% to 35% of GDP as one of the targets of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, through several efforts and modern business models that keep pace with business variables and provide new job opportunities that enhance the rate of localization and women participation, as well as allow the consumer to obtain their needs in the fastest time.

Haqeel stressed that the Ministry is committed to strengthening the partnership. <Al-Haqeel stressed the ministry's keenness to enable <a style="color: #993300" href="https://amlak.net. and entrepreneurs in general by providing more opportunities, such as holding the municipal investment forum "Opportunities“ in its second edition last January, during which more than 5,000 investment opportunities were presented for the year 2023, indicating that three steps were presented to entrepreneurs, namely: ”A smart requirements guide, qualifying enterprises in the private sector, linking enterprises to beneficiaries In the municipal sector, and in the residential sector, to empower many small and medium enterprises, a program to support and empower real estate developers and a program to convert contractors into real estate developers was introduced, which contributed to the provision of more than 10,000 housing units, part of them in partnership with the National Housing Authority.