«الشورى» يطالب بوظائف مناسبة لقدرات ذوي الإعاقة

The Shura Council has called on the Authority for the Care of Persons with Disabilities to coordinate with relevant entities to study the training needs of individuals with disabilities and enable them to access jobs suitable for their capabilities. During its twenty-ninth regular session of the second year of the ninth term, chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Council, Dr. Mishaal Fahm Al-Sulami (via video conference), the Council urged the authority to motivate rehabilitation and care service providers to enhance the quality of rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities to be more inclusive across all regions, and to adopt a unified methodology to survey the opinions of persons with disabilities regarding the services provided to them, thereby enhancing the integration of the disability system across various sectors.

The Council also called on the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to coordinate with relevant entities to increase the percentage of local content in the digital sector to enhance economic growth and technical independence.

The Council requested the Maintenance Fund to coordinate with relevant entities to address the technical and administrative difficulties faced by its beneficiaries.

The Public Administration Institute was called upon to coordinate with relevant entities to develop mechanisms for addressing changes in training plans for entities well in advance, to ensure that other entities can benefit from those opportunities in case of postponement or cancellation, and to coordinate with the Central Committee for Training and Scholarship of Civil Service Employees to develop a reference framework for administrative and leadership training provided to the government sector by governmental and private entities to ensure the quality of training.

The National Center for Government Resource Systems was urged to coordinate with relevant entities to develop a unified national framework for measuring the financial and economic impact of the government resource system, which supports enhancing spending efficiency and promoting transparency.

The Council discussed the annual report of the National Center for E-Learning and the annual report of the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property. Shura Council member Dr. Taqwa Omar urged the National Center for E-Learning to work on building a comprehensive framework for developing and sustaining a specialized and sustainable workforce by developing an integrated talent management model that focuses on attracting quality national competencies, building advanced capacities in digital education fields, and ensuring the transfer of institutional knowledge.

Council member Dr. Lubna Al-Ajmi called for the center to transition from "performance measurement" to "impact measurement," indicating that this is the most important phase in the sector's maturity, and that completing this transformation will shift e-learning from expansion to maximizing impact and value for the economy. Council member Engineer Khalid Al-Buraik called for the establishment of a platform for the Saudi intellectual property market, similar to its global counterparts.

The Council also discussed the annual report of the Public Authority for Irrigation and the annual report of the National Center for Research and Development of Sustainable Agriculture.

Al-Mukhaili for Irrigation: Benefit from dams by developing traditional solutions

Council member Dr. Asim Al-Mukhaili called on the Public Authority for Irrigation to coordinate with relevant entities to expand the implementation of modern irrigation channels to benefit from dam water and develop traditional solutions in the valleys of the Kingdom, using innovative engineering mechanisms and presenting them as investment opportunities to increase agricultural land and combat desertification. Al-Mukhaili clarified, in his intervention, that large quantities of rainwater accompanied by flowing torrents through the valleys of the Kingdom end up in their final destinations without being utilized more effectively, noting the removal of many earthen dams adjacent to agricultural lands near the valleys to ensure public safety, while some dams in the Kingdom suffer from a lack of modern irrigation channels to nourish agricultural lands within the vicinity of those dams. This requires the institution to prioritize finding technical and engineering solutions to ensure the implementation of modern irrigation channels that maximize the benefit from as much agricultural land as possible located within the vicinity of those dams, taking into account the areas adjacent to the valleys by forming specialized committees from governmental entities and local experts to ensure the development of some of them and create a comprehensive operational plan to replace what needs to be replaced with water storage in the form of small dams and develop them, which stimulates farmers and creates high competitiveness and economic growth, in addition to enhancing national food security, while considering the balance between safety requirements and the efficient utilization of water resources.

Al-Najjar to the Center for Sustainable Agriculture: Balancing food security and water sustainability is a necessity

Council member Dr. Abdullah Omar Al-Najjar called on the National Center for Research and Development of Sustainable Agriculture to adopt a national framework for measuring the economic impact of agricultural technologies, linking research outputs to indicators such as return on investment, increased productivity, and resource use efficiency.

He urged the center to launch a national program for low-water consumption agriculture based on directing the crop composition, linking agricultural support to water use efficiency, and generalizing smart irrigation technologies and monitoring their application.