Minister of Social Solidarity Maya Morsi announced these figures during a meeting with the semi-annual monitoring delegation of the World Bank mission in the New Capital. The meeting was held to review the programme’s achievements since its launch in 2015.
According to the ministry’s statement, the average support per family has reached EGP 900, with a minimum of EGP 700 and a maximum of EGP 4,000.
Moreover, the number of families receiving Takaful & Karama’s cash support has increased from 1.7 million in 2015 to 4.7 million in 2025, with 75 percent of beneficiaries being women and 25 percent men.
The aggregate number of families benefitting from the programme in the last ten years amounted to 8.1 million families, according to the ministry.
During the meeting, Morsi emphasized that the Takaful & Karama programme currently focuses on strengthening mechanisms to help beneficiary families transition from receiving support to work and production.
She highlighted the ministry’s significant attention to early childhood care services to help women work. She also noted that the ministry will increase the number of nurseries by granting more temporary licenses to open nursery centres at schools.
For his part, Assistant to the Minister of Social Solidarity for Social Protection, Social Safety Nets, Economic Empowerment, and Human Development and Executive Director of the Takaful & Karama programme, Raafat Shafik, noted that the new Social Insurance Law, issued in April 2025, has expanded the scope of services provided to vulnerable families and individuals.
The law also transformed social assistance, Shafik said, into a legal right based on conditional and unconditional cash support programmes and precise targeting mechanisms. Furthermore, he noted that the law links social protection to economic empowerment by helping families to transition from dependency to productivity.
During the meeting, Angy Elyamany, Executive Director of the Rural and Environmental Industries Support Fund (REIS), stated that the fund has become a strategic tool that empowers families financially, allowing them to dispense with support.
Elyamany also explained that the fund aims to transform villages and rural communities into dynamic, inclusive centres for sustainable development by supporting the localization of industries, spreading green technology, encouraging innovation, and building human capacities, while adhering to the highest standards of governance and transparency.
During the meeting, participants discussed plans to conduct further research to document the achievements of the Takaful& Karama programme over the past ten years.
According to the ministry’s statement, the meeting took place at the conclusion of the World Bank delegation’s visit to Egypt.
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