Specialties - mrmwr

The Ministry's Responsibilities:

This Ministry's functions are set out in Royal Decree No. 55/2006 as follows:

• Setting up policies, plans and programs for the work in the Municipalities and Water Resources sectors, monitoring work progress ,and taking the necessary follow-up actions to ensure successful implementation.
• Developing work methods, collecting relevant statistics, carrying out studies and research related to the framework of the Ministry’s works..
• Ensuring sound and balanced constructional development as well as provision of infrastructure, civil facilities in governorates that are under its charge.
• Protecting public health and ensuring environmental sanitation as wells as quality control services in laboratories.
• Discovering, assessing and developing water resources, and ensuring their sound management, especially by ensuring their judicious exploitation and consumption.
• Preserving water resources from the exhaustion and economizing water consumption in all spheres, as well as coordinating with relevant authorities in water management.
• Promoting and activating the collaboration and partnership with local and regional organizations and agencies in the spheres of municipal and water services
• Proposing and revising legislation for the effective realization of the Ministry’s work.
• Developing human resources through training and retraining programs in Ministry’s work specializations.
• Providing electronic services to the public in line with the overall national policies on electronic government.
• Providing public awareness of the Ministry’s work field. And the need for public cooperation.

The Ministry's Organization Structure:

Royal Decree No. 55/2006 stipulates the organizational structure of the ministry as follows::

1. Organizational divisions of the Minister's Office, includes:
   • Directorate General of Planning and Studies
   • Directorate General of Administrative and Financial Affairs
   • Legal Affairs Department.
   • International Relations Department
   • Awareness and Information Department
   • Public Relations Department
   • Coordination and Follow-up Department
   • Archives and Records Department
   • ecurity Office
   • Tenders Committee.
2. Organizational divisions of the regional municipalities sector includes:
   • The Undersecretary's Office
   • Property Evaluation Committee
   • Directorate General of Health Control and Wastewater 
   • Directorate General of Technical Affairs
   • Directorate General of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources in the Governorates and Regions
   • Food and Water Laboratories Center
3. Organizational divisions of water resources sector includes:
   • The Undersecretary's Office
   • Directorate General of Water Resources Assessment
   • Directorate General of Water Resources Management