KUWAIT CITY, Sept 6: While the report of the Secretariat General of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development confirmed the success of executive bodies in overcoming 619 out of 733 challenges by the end of the third quarter of the annual plan (2024-2025), 114 challenges remain, awaiting radical solutions that will contribute to improving achievement rates, reports Al-Seyassah daily. According to the report, technical challenges ranked first with a total of 50, including delays in project implementation due to amendments or contractors’ delay in meeting technical requirements.

Administrative challenges followed with 35, such as the slow documentation cycle of contractual procedures and delays in obtaining licenses and approvals. Financial challenges totaled 13, including the lack of budgets for projects. Legislative challenges reached 12, mostly due to the failure to issue the legislation needed to implement projects. Regulatory challenges ranked last with four, most of which are related to the procedures of regulatory bodies, such as the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) and State Audit Bureau (SAB).

The report confirmed that the Supreme Council for Planning and Development recommended the need to accelerate the completion of draft laws included in the plan. It emphasized the importance of ending delays in spending on some projects caused by postponed budgets or approvals, in addition to exerting more efforts to advance incentive projects in partnership with the private sector. It also highlighted the obligation of executive bodies to quickly complete their planning structures and address the causes of the significant delays in a number of projects included in the plan. It indicated that the returns on private sector incentive projects do not meet expectations, especially public-private partnership projects, and that the matter requires increasing momentum to complete the preparatory works for them.