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      Muscat and Suhar Municipalities kick off today Tuesday the second forum for exchange of experiences under the motto "innovative solutions to sustainable municipal services". The forum which will be patronized by H.E Eng Mohsin bin Mohammed Al Sheikh chairman of Muscat Municipality will present 17 papers in 6 sessions highlighting the challenges facing today`s municipal work and proposing resolutions to deal with.

      The first session of the forum was chaired by Eng. Nassir Ali al Hina`i where a Korean delegation gave a visual presentation about the cheonggyecheon river and the hanging parks in the city of Seoul.

      The second session was headed by Dr. Abdulhakim Al Farsi, Director General of the Office of Chairman of Muscat Municipality. In the session H.E Mr. Salim bin Musallam al Busaidi, undersecretary of the Ministry of civil service for administrative development presented a paper on management of human resources development in the ministry. Dr. Salih al Hammadi assistant director of the national strategy for urban development spoke about Oman`s long term strategy for urban development. The third paper was about Lean Method adopted by PDO company in developing the administrative operations.

      The theme of the third session was on the  strategies developing the municipal field headed by Eng. Issa Salim al Riami, Director general of Muscat Municipality in Al-Amirat. Dr. Hanan al Jabriyyah who is director assistant of the strategic planning in Muscat Municipality presented a paper on the Muscat Municipality strategic plan, reviewing the objectives of the project on preparing the appropriate studies and research programmes to measure the organizational performance.

      The second day sessions has shed light on "Financial Planning and development of services" which will include a paper on "Programmes and performance budgeting", in addition to another discussing "Updating addressing data in providing a sustainable municipal services". The second paper entitled "The Importance of documenting procedures for Sustainability of Development".

      The fifth session covers a theme on the technical services and infrastructure where many papers will be presented like; "strategic traffic and public transport in the governorate of Muscat", and  "Applying the Lean methods in the management of building permits", and the third on "the role of law in supporting a sustainable urban development and challenges".

      The sixth and last session of the forum will present three papers discussing the recent challenges of urban development. The first will deal with the health affairs sector, the second will be about the prominent urban challenges faced by the service directorates and the last paper will cover the most notable planning challenges and their implications for the implementation of road projects in Muscat Municipality.