Ministry of Local Administration and Environment (Syria)

Ministry of Local Administration and Environment (Syria)
The Ministry of Local Administration and Environment is a department of the Council of Ministers of the Syrian Arab Republic.
History
The history of the Ministry of Local Administration goes back to the first government during the era of Hafez al-Assad, and this journey began by Jabr al-Kafri in March 1972. The ministry continued as it was until the end of 2001 when the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs was added to it and entrusted to the engineer Hilal al-Atrash.
Legislative Decree 64 of 2004 stipulated that the term Ministry of Local Administration and Environment should replace the Ministry of Housing and Construction. The third article of the decree stipulates that “the workers in the Ministry of Housing and Construction who are on the job in the Directorates of Urban Planning and Topography shall be deemed to be transferred by law to the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment”.
In April 2009, Decree No. 25 was issued to dismiss the ministry and create a Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs to assume the tasks and competencies that were assumed by the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment in accordance with the legislation and regulations in force with regard to environmental affairs. The name of the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment was amended to become the Ministry of Local Administration.
The Ministry in its current form was created in 2016 by a presidential decree (Law No. 18) merging both the Ministry of Local Administration and the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs. It is managed by Eng. Hussein Makhlouf since July 31, 2016.
Responsibility
Through the Local Administration Law, the concerned ministry is responsible for:
Securing services for citizens
Community cohesion
Decentralization
Local government
Planning
Environment
Reconstruction
Urban regeneration
General policy of state
Organisation
Ministry directorates
Minister's Office Directorate
Assistant Minister's Office
Directorate of Institutions and Companies
Directorate of Press and Information
Directorate of Administrative Affairs
Directorate of Planning and Statistics
Directorate of Local Councils Affairs
Directorate of Personnel Affairs
Directorate of Financial Affairs
Legal Department
Department of Studies and Contracts
Directorate of Internal Control
Administrative Development Directorate
Directorate of Fire and Disaster Affairs
The tasks of the Informatics Directorate
Technical Affairs Directorate
Follow-up and Complaints Directorate
Directorate of Service Systems and Schemes
Directorate of Mechanisms
Directorate of Real Estate Affairs
Directorate of International Cooperation
Technical Department
Environmental Directorates
Directorate of Renewable Energy and Cleaner Production
Directorate of Water Safety
Environmental Awareness Directorate
Atmospheric Safety Directorate
Directorate of Biodiversity, Lands and Reserves
Directorate of Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Research Directorate
Safety Directorate
Affiliates
General Directorate of Real Estate Interests
Inland transportation companies
Citizen service centers
Reconstruction Committee
Relief Committee
See also
Government ministries of Syria
References
External links
Official Page of Ministry
Local government ministries
Ministries established in 2016
Government ministers of Syria
Syria
Cabinet of Syria
Lists of political office-holders in Syria
2016 establishments in Syria
Coordinates not on Wikidata