• By the tip of the primary quarter of 2025/2026, 48.2% of tasks had been within the implementation part, 17 new tasks had been launched with 41% but to begin, 28% aligned with schedule, and general spending reached 10%, greater than 2024/2025 however decrease than 2023/2024.
A authorities report confirmed that the 2025/2026 annual growth plan contains about 141 tasks throughout 9 applications, with complete allocations of KD 1.3 billion. This marks a 6% rise in comparison with final 12 months’s plan, which lined 133 tasks with KD 1.1 billion in appropriations.
In keeping with the quarterly follow-up report issued by the Normal Secretariat for Planning, spending on the brand new plan’s tasks reached 9.9% by the tip of the primary quarter, up 5.1% from the identical interval final 12 months. Expenditure in the course of the three months amounted to KD 132.4 million, a 143% improve from the KD 54.5 million spent within the corresponding interval of the earlier 12 months, Al Qabas newspaper reported.
The 2025/2026 annual growth plan contains 124 ongoing tasks and 17 new ones. About 48.2% of those tasks are nonetheless within the implementation part, whereas 21 have but to start. Infrastructure-related tasks symbolize the most important share, with 38 tasks centered on constructing a cohesive basis.
The report confirmed that 28 tasks are progressing according to the schedule, whereas almost 70% had been behind by the tip of the primary quarter.
Implementation challenges
The evaluation confirmed 723 challenges going through businesses liable for the tasks within the 2025/2026 plan. These challenges are grouped into 5 principal classes and 29 subcategories. Roughly 87% of them have already been addressed.
Administrative challenges make up the most important share, at 43%, with delays within the documentation cycle for contractual procedures and gradual approvals from regulatory our bodies recognized as the principle obstacles.
Technical challenges account for 30.6% and are linked to delays brought on by contractors, the implementing entity, or setbacks in delivering undertaking phases and securing provides. Monetary challenges, akin to delays in allocating funds, symbolize 12.6%. Legislative challenges are the least vital, at 4.3% of the overall.
Highlights of the prjects
• Tasks underneath the 2025/2026 annual plan are concentrated within the implementation part, accounting for 48.2% by the tip of the primary quarter.
• The plan contains 17 new tasks, 41% of which had not began by the tip of the primary quarter.
• About 28% of tasks are according to the implementation schedule, just like the identical interval in 2024/2025, and barely greater than 27% in 2023/2024.
• The spending price on tasks within the 2025/2026 plan reached 10% by the tip of the primary quarter, 5.1% greater than in 2024/2025 however 7.2% decrease than in 2023/2024.
• Spending underneath the Cohesive Infrastructure Program was the best among the many plan’s applications, reaching 11% by the tip of the primary quarter, adopted by the Environmentally Harmonious Residing Areas Program at 5.5%.
• Administrative challenges symbolize 43% of the overall, the most important share amongst all classes. Key obstacles embrace the gradual documentation cycle for contractual procedures and delays in licensing and required approvals.
• Round 87% of the challenges to undertaking implementation have been overcome.
5 suggestions
1. Authorities ought to expedite the completion of draft legal guidelines within the plan. Fourteen draft legal guidelines stay pending with related our bodies and require renewed momentum to advance the legislative program.
2. Delays in spending on some tasks as a result of late finances approvals or disbursements ought to be addressed urgently.
3. Extra effort is required to help tasks that stimulate the personal sector, notably public-private partnerships, the place progress stays beneath expectations. Preparatory work and regulatory approvals ought to be accelerated to maneuver these tasks ahead.
4. Govt our bodies collaborating within the plan ought to full their planning constructions shortly to make sure easy coordination with preparation and follow-up methods. The Normal Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Growth has enhanced these methods, which has already improved achievement charges by resolving obstacles earlier.
5. Radical options are wanted for tasks going through vital delays of their timelines, even when no official obstacles have been recorded.