WHAT’S NXT

MEGA PROJECTS..
DO THEY REALIZE DREAMS OF THE FUTURE OWNERS?
While I were contemplating the child who plays on the sand and crystalizes his dreams
by his tiny fingers, those dreams represents the future that he sees in the distant
horizon. He learns planning and building spontaneously, sometimes his dreams
withstand the waves of the sea and sometimes collapse. Therefore, he knows how to
avoid risks in the future. Here my mind went to the mega projects that are now being
implemented in Egypt, and a number of questions arose in front of me: Is not the aim of
these projects to achieve the future dreams? Is the used methodology will lead to this
..!?
Mega projects cannot be separated from the government plans. It is necessary to
evaluate them in an integrated manner in terms of the method before the product. These
projects chart the paths of development and determined the direction and volume of
investments, which directly affects medium and small projects. These projects have
influences and results that transcend the boundaries of the project itself. The society is
affected indirectly by adding new values, including positive and negative values. The
difficulty in evaluation is that they are long-term projects and their results do not
appear until it finishes. So, will we have to wait for the target year to evaluate projects?
Incidentally, this year (2017) is the target year of the Toshka project, which started in
the early nineties. Did we need to reach the target year to make sure the project failure,
because it did not achieve the goals for which it was announced?