MUSCAT : Muscat Governorate on Monday received a delegation from North Al Sharqiyah Governorate at the Muscat Governorate building within cooperation promotion and experiences’ exchanging between governorates in Oman. Several offered projects and services in various sectors of service and development in Muscat, with the officials and specialists’ participation from both organizations.

The visit aims to provide employees with the opportunity to learn about Muscat Governorate’s experience in the fields of urban planning, project management, plans, and business strategies. Additionally, discussions on municipal work and local administration, within the governorates’ development priorities.

The visit program included a welcoming speech, followed by a documentary film that reviews the most notable landmarks and achievements of Muscat Governorate. As well as, a historical insight into municipal work. Dr. Abdul Majeed Al Aghbari, the Legal Department’s manager in Muscat Governorate, gave a detailed presentation on governance implementations in Muscat Governorate’s local administration, including the Strategic Plan, Institutional Excellence Indicators, Transactions Charter, and Procedures’ Documentation. The project aims to document processes and procedures by developing an implementation plan to collect and document procedures according to a specific timeline, which contributes to improve the user experience, reduce time, effort and resources. As well as, promoting digital transformation in Muscat Governorate.

Muscat Municipality also reviewed several projects. Rehab Al Saadi presented a visual presentation on the ‘Etamid Platform’, an advanced and integrated digital platform that unifies the procedures for issuing a no-objection certificate for all excavation activities outside the land borders within Muscat Governorate, for the various types of service lines. The program displayed a film highlighting Muscat Municipality’s projects, such as road paving, water drainage projects, walkways, public parks, lighting projects and others.

Engineer Salim Al Ameri presented Muscat Municipality’s experience in municipal licences. Fatima Al Fazari discussed the strategy for projects’ preparation in the annual plan, which focuses on the sources for preparing the plan, the aims card, the strategy for preparing the annual plan, and the proposed projects card in Muscat Municipality.

The first day’s programme concluded with an open discussion session, during which the two governorates’ staff exchanged views and experiences on best practices in local administration. So, enhancing cooperation between the governorates.

The visit will continue until Tuesday, October 8, and the second day’s programme includes field visits to several Muscat Governorate projects. For example, the Oman Botanical Garden in Al Khoud, the Al Khuwair Square site, and the Sustainable City Yiti site.

This visit comes within continuous efforts to achieve integration between governorates and exchange experiences that contribute to the municipal and administrative work’s development, according to Oman’s Vision 2040 and the governorates’ development. These visits offer an opportunity to learn from other governorates’ experiences in the planning and project management fields. Also, to learn about best practices in terms of the projects, and the implementation and follow-up methods.