Egypt’s Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform will launch a government projects tracker in the coming months, according to the ministry’s first minister and ambassador, Yasser al-Nagar.

Speaking at MEED’s Egypt Mega Projects conference held in Cairo on 15 November, Al-Nagar told the audience the ministry has assumed responsibility of measuring and monitoring large projects across the country. He went on to confirm the projects tracker will be available to government bodies and the private sector.

Egypt has an active projects market worth $364.9bn, according to regional projects tracker MEED Projects. This includes $140bn of schemes under execution, $150bn under study, $12.1bn at the main contract bid stage, $12.1bn at prequalification, and $50bn in design.

In terms of those in the pre-execution phases, the biggest future sector is construction, with $137bn-worth of projects in the pipeline. The next biggest sectors are power, with $78bn, and transport, with $56bn.