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Microfinance should be considered and planned as a major means of economic development at the national level and as a means of reducing poverty, bringing about real development, and raising the standard of living of the rural population, which is the main hypothesis that pointed to the need to monitor what is happening in the microfinance sector, in particular the role of the Local Development Fund, since it is mainly located within the countryside through local units in the provinces. This leads us to a question: What is the real impact of the microfinance services provided by the Local Development Fund in alleviating poverty and economic opportunities for clients? This paper aims to identify the role of microenterprises in alleviating rural poverty and to study the economic and social impacts of micro-enterprises on borrowers. The results show that the total volume of microfinance lending is 29.5 million L.E for 8,471 projects in 2009/10, but real prices show that there is a significant decline in the value of financing directed against current prices. The real funding volume was 9.7 million L.E in 2020/21. It turns out that there are moral differences between the sample members of the borrowers who own. It was found that there were significant differences between the sample members of micro- enterprises and non-borrower sample members of economic variables, with the calculated value of (T) estimated at 10.9, 8, 4.6, 5.8, and 1.8 per monthly income, savings, asset ownership, increased employment opportunities, and development of productive behavior respectively. This compares with the T-rated values where the T values calculated were greater than their scheduling counterparts, and those differences are in favor of borrowers from local development fund clients. About 69% of the sample of micro-entrepreneurs explained that there has been an improvement in their standard of living, as evidenced by the improved level of the food they receive and their interest in educating children and following up on the state's health care initiatives to maintain their health. The research recommends reviewing the distribution of funding to the provinces to target the poorest provinces, in addition to not repeating the same projects in the same places and diversifying activities, focusing on agricultural, rural, and environmental productive activities and moving away from consumer, and service activities that are not fully sustainable and do not increase real employment opportunities. Increasing the value of the loan where it is contrary to the value of microfinance described by the definition of the micro-project with the micro-financing strategy prepared by the state, and the financing rules announced by the Financial Supervisory Authority and funding provided by other official bodies in the country such as the SME Development Authority and micro, which contributes to the movement of customers from projects that meet their basic need to the level of effective microprojects, and thus the final impact of microfinance becomes useful, which It allows borrowers to break out of poverty and contribute significantly to sustainable economic and social development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of engineering activities includes many examples of development that has led to environmental degradation. Hence, environmental ethics has a special place in engineering education. The present paper is in the field of engineering ethics, which focuses specifically on the teaching of environmental ethics. Also, the lack of a training course related to environmental ethics is in fact a missing link in the training of engineering experts, which needs special attention to solve future problems. In this regard, officials should think about creating a paradigm shift in the field of education in engineering, because it is related to the interaction between engineers and the environment. Engineers, compared to other single professions, are responsible for majority of the artifacts of the current world which we live in. The impact of an engineer's work on this constructed world has both benefits and risks, ranging from safety and health issues to environmental degradations. Consequently, education of environmental ethics should be considered as an essential skill for all engineering programs. For this purpose, this article proposes a syllabus for an environmental ethics course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at the role of public reading spaces in activating and disseminating the information literacy and digital literacy through providing a strong and sustainable cultural information environment for all members of the society through activities such as seminars, lectures, workshops, forums and preparing publications, articles and other programs that contribute to the preparation of competencies Human and focus on the concept of active citizenship and positive It serves everyone regardless of their age and sex abilities and affiliations and ensure equal opportunities for all in access to knowledge and democratization of culture, on the other hand In view of the real and realistic vision of these cultural institutions and what they describe as social systems that contribute to the creation of a class of intellectuals capable of achieving development in a comprehensive and sustainable way through the introduction of the principle of culture, information and technology, These concepts and strategic approaches contribute to activating the role of these libraries as spaces for creativity, learning, education, and information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to identify the areas of sustainable development that should be included in the textbooks of Prophetic Sayings (Hadeeth) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to determine the degree of availability, and to find out if there are statistically significant differences at (α≤0.05) in the degree of availability. The descriptive analytical method was used to analyze the whole study population. Cooper coefficient of stability, frequencies, and percentages were used to analyze the results and measure the degree of availability of these fields. Chi Square equation was also used to measure the differences between the availability of fields among grades. The social field was firstly ranked with a percentage of 78.16%, and a total of 433 frequencies, while the environmental field followed it with a percentage of 6.98% and a total of 37 frequencies. The paper showed that there were statistically significant differences in the inclusion in Chi equation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The planning of Industrial areas in new cities in Egypt has their special design standards stemming from the needs of the society, its economy and climate characteristics. However, it can effectively take advantage of the experiences of the developed countries in this field; either condition was similar or different to get to the environmental sustainability of these cities. As the Arab Republic of Egypt suffers from blurred vision in industrial zones and new urban planning, so paper deals with the study of industrial zones in the new Egyptian cities and their environmental problems and developing proposals for achieving the environmental sustainability In order to achieve the aim of the research was presented a different method of environmental assessment, such as matrix foundations and environmental standards and the African city index and index Dimension, to evaluate the industrial zones in the cities. And then try to access a methodology in the context of the most important determinants influencing the performance of the region as a whole and of energy, water, and transport emissions, air, waste and resources.. The research has come to the positives and negatives for the new cities, of the Arab Republic Egypt and put the necessary recommendations to take advantage of the positives and avoid the negatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Historical area in Jeddah has heritage buildings since the beginning of the Islamic era, and it is considered one of the most important cities which lies on the coast of the red sea. Recently it has been its accession to the world heritage list of UNECO in the June 21/2014 AD. The Historical area has been hit by several negative factors like: Neglect severe, encroachment, loss of identity, visual pollution, neglect of the site format, and no doubt that this factors make the Historical area and traditional environmental inability to sustainability, which requires from us to think about a holistic approach use it to develop the historical area, not looking at the problems partially. So ,The paper aims to develop an integrated strategy for the possibility of achieving sustainable development and quality of life in the historical area, Through the interest in addressing the environmental aspects, sustainability of the roads, sustainable building, the provision of appropriate green space and attention to the external surroundings of heritage buildings that reflect the value of heritage area , tourist importance not only for future generations but for non-citizens in all parts of the world which is that make it more sustainable. The research methodology: First: the inductive method: is the theoretical background to show the sustainability of the heritage cities and urban environmental aspects of treatment by a special state after the adoption of the historic area of Jeddah World Heritage area Second, the analytical method: through the documentation of the current status of World Heritage areas in Jeddah (Mazloum lane and part of the Sham lane) and an analysis of the features of architectural and urban character of the heritage area Third, the approach applied: consists in the possibility of applying an integrated strategy aimed at developing environmental heritage of Jeddah from the perspective of sustainability to achieve: (a heritage area of environment-friendly). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]