Questions/Answers
Pregunta 1
Describa brevemente la iniciativa, qué situación o reto aborda y especificar los objetivos.
(Máximo 300 palabras)
The strategic objective of building this system is to provide easy, quick and digitalized channel for all investors (individuals and organizations) to request any agriculture licenses inside the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
All types of agriculture licenses that authorize investors to operate their business under the rules, policies, procedures and conditions of the ministry and on other hand the ministry will be able to monitor, measure and improve its services all the time by redesigning and the business processes to increase the quality, reduce the time and control the cost for the investors and the ministry.
The project scope is developing electronic portal that will contains 80 types of agriculture licenses that can any investor apply for them to get the license electrically.
The main objectives of licenses portal:
- Manage and tracking the licenses in centralized portal that will be accessible for all investors (individuals and organizations)
- Getting the needed licenses without visiting the ministry or any of its offices
- Paperless environment by reduce the paper work inside the ministry and its offices
- Digitalized government to be aligned with digital transformation strategy for the ministry as one the main initiative for the kingdom vision 2030
- Transparently and ability to monitor the requests statuses from the beneficiaries by tracing the request ID through the centralized portal
- Reduce the violations and have more control on the non-licensed investors
- Ability to add the violations in an accurate way by License number
Pregunta 2
Explicar cómo está alineada la iniciativa con la categoría seleccionada
(Máximo 100 palabras)
This project in the ministry is coming under the digital transformation initiative that focusing on providing electronic services to help the beneficiaries to get their services in less time and good quality. In addition to, enable the ministry to track, manage and improve the beneficiaries experience and enhance the social life for the communities.
Licenses portal aims to transform the government of the Kingdom into a forward-looking nation of growth, people, governance, and environment that always accounts for the beneficiaries groups.
Pregunta 3
a. Verificar a qué ODS y meta(s) apoya esta iniciativa y describa concretamente cómo esta
iniciativa ha contribuido a la implementación del ODS indicado. (Máximo 200 palabras)
Goal 2: zero hunger, Goal 3: Good Health, Goal 8: decent work and economic growth,Goal 15: life on land, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Licenses portal contributed in goal 2 and promote sustainable agriculture meaning all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.
Also in goal 3 to achieve universal health coverage, goal 8 developing the Kingdom economic growth
Goal 15 ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages is important to building prosperous societies. Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed.
Goal 10 reduced inequalities the income as well as those based on age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status within a country.
The statistics reports shows the number of applicants seeking their licenses and all those beneficiaries that got them, The main objective of this report is to describe the implementation and impact of the application.
b. Describa qué hace que esta iniciativa sea sostenible en término social, económico y del medio ambiente. (Máximo 100 palabras)
The social target for this system as it’s will touch all social components by increase the quality of life, food and services for social communities by manage and control the licensing process and exposure the services for bigger social community
This application will encourage the beneficiaries to apply their licenses requests in a sustainable manner to return with good quality for the agriculture products and livestock
Providing business opportunities to a vast army of beneficiaries. As a matter of fact, the process of economic development is being initiated with our application
The environmental impact that licenses portal is contributing in is the growth of cultivation
The beneficiaries can apply for licenses request electrically without having to visit the ministry
Pregunta 4
a. Explicar cómo la iniciativa ha abordado un déficit significativo en la gobernanza, la administración pública o el servicio público en el contexto de un de país o región. (Máximo 200 palabras)
The licenses portal gives great attention regards digital transformation as a tool to bring about sustainable development in the Kingdom.
Tackling the issues that face the individuals and organizations is therefore a cornerstone of this initiative mission. Digital technologies can ensure equal access to opportunities to all, eventually allowing for providing the financial help and improving lives. It ensures the right policies are promoted, ushering in better, more inclusive, digitally enabled services that are accessible, efficient, savings-generating, open, and sustainable also catering to all different sectors of society. In doing so, access is ensured and fatalities from end-user.
Unified business process for all beneficiaries within the same platform that enables the governance
b. Describa cómo su iniciativa aborda la desigualdad de género en el contexto del país. (Máximo 100 palabras)
Gender inequality acknowledges that men and women are not equal and that gender affects an individual's living experience. These differences arise from distinctions in biology, psychology, and cultural norms. Some of these distinctions are empirically grounded while others appear to be socially constructed.
In Licenses portal we do not have gender inequality.
c. Describa quiénes fueron los grupos receptores a beneficiarse de la iniciativa, y explicar cómo la iniciativa mejoró las condiciones de estos grupos. (Máximo 200 palabras)
The innovation is the creation of the ministry of environment water & agriculture entity to help the beneficiaries our main target groups are investors (the unemployed, women, youth) and organizations correctly to contribute in shaping our countries future, the whole of government efforts to propagate SDGs into society using digital transformation. This is being done with the notion of the beneficiary being collaborative in applying for their needed licenses in licenses portal.
This portal will encourage the investors to invest in the all types under agriculture domain by keeping the sources and materials well maintained all the time from the companies and investors. Also will return with good quality for the agriculture products
Pregunta 5
a. Describir cómo se implementó la iniciativa incluyendo desarrollos y pasos clave, actividades de monitoreo y evaluación y la cronología.(300 palabras)
The portal is expecting to receive 50-80 request per day and the average processing time will be 2-3 days that will reduce the paper work in the ministry and giving the ability to monitor all licenses in addition to the ability of capturing the violations that will checked in the renew process of the licenses and notify the other government entities about the violations to can take an immediate actions
b. Explicar claramente los obstáculos encontrados y cómo de solucionaron. (100 palabras)
The main obstacles that License portal has faced are:
- Awareness of using the application in the remote villages.
- Internet access coverage in not covered in all cities areas
- Challenge to check with all importations roles and guidance
Pregunta 6
a. Explicar de qué manera(s) la iniciativa es innovadora en el contexto de su país o region. (Máximo 100 palabras)
The innovation is in the creation of the ministry of environment water & agriculture entity to help the beneficiaries get back on their feet and start their business correctly to contribute in shaping our countries future, the whole of government efforts to propagate SDGs into society using digital transformation. This is being done with the notion of the beneficiary being collaborative in applying for their needed licenses in licenses portal.
This portal will encourage the investors to invest in the all types under agriculture domain by keeping the sources and materials well maintained all the time from the companies and investors. Also will return with good quality for the agriculture products
b. Describa, si fuere relevante, cómo la iniciativa se inspiró en iniciativas exitosas de otras regions, países o localidades. (Máximo 100 palabras)
No, as our initiative is mainly for Saudi Arabia.
Pregunta 7
a. ¿Su organización tiene conocimiento si la iniciativa ha sido transferida y/o adaptada a otros contextos (por ejemplo: otras ciudades, países o regiones)? Si así fuera, favor explicar dónde y cómo. (Máximo 200 palabras)
No, as our initiative is mainly in Saudi Arabia.
b. Si la iniciativa aún no ha sido transferida/adaptada a otros contextos, favor describir el potencial de transferencia.
Licenses portal is an adaptive platform where each country could transfer this platform to their rules and regulations, however it will not be transferred.
Pregunta 8
¿Qué recursos específicos (financieros, humanos ú otros) se utilizaron para implementar la iniciativa? (Máximo 100 palabras)
This initiative was created by a project group of 15 people inside the ministry of environment water & agriculture.
b. En términos financiaros e institucionales, explicar qué hace que esta iniciativa sea sostenible a través del tiempo. (Máximo 100 palabras)
The institutional target for this system as it’s will touch all social components by increase the quality of life.
The beneficiaries can apply for licenses request electrically without having to visit the ministry or any of its branches which helps the ministry in the financial department
Pregunta 9
a. ¿Esta iniciativa ha sido evaluada formalmente, ya sea interna o externamente?
Si
b. Describa cómo fue evaluada y por quién. (Máximo 100 palabras)
Communication and technology commission in Saudi Arabia.
World summit on the information society of 2019.
c. Describa los indicadores y herramientas utilizadas. (Máximo 100 palabras)
The internal evaluation was done by the communication and technology commission in Saudi Arabia.
Licenses portal performance is primarily measured through the level of digital transformation maturity, as it is a main goal and objective to guide the process of digital transformation on a national level.
On the external evaluation note licenses portal was nominated for the world summit on the information society of 2019
d. ¿Cuáles fueron los principals hallazgos de la evaluación (por ejemplo: la adecuación de los recursos movilizados para la iniciativa, la calidad de implementación y los desafíos enfrentados, los resultados principales, la sostenibilidad de la iniciativa, los impactos) y cómo se utiliza esta información para informar sobre la implementación de la iniciativa. (Máximo 200 palabras)
The internal evaluation outcome is to increase and deepen the scope of the initiative, and directly measure the contribution in addressing SDGs and related indices.
Where the external evaluation for licenses portal won the world summit on the information society of 2019
Pregunta 10
Describa cómo la iniciativa se esfuerza por trabajar de manera integrada dentro de su panorama institucional – por ejemplo, ¿cómo funciona la iniciativa tanto horizontal como verticalmente a través de los diferentes niveles o escalafones de gobierno? (Máximo 200 palabras)
Licenses portal provides the beneficiaries to avoid visiting other governmental entities being that it is connected to the major public and government in Saudi Arabia.
the ministry will be able to monitor, measure and improve its services all the time by redesigning and the business processes to increase the quality, reduce the time and control the cost for the investors and the ministry.
Pregunta 11
La Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible pone énfasis en la colaboración, compromiso, asociaciones y la inclusión. Describa qué partes interesadas participaron en el diseño, implementación y evaluación; y cómo se llevó a cabo este compromiso. (Máximo 200 palabras)
The input and cooperation from all stakeholders in the ministry to design, customize, and implement the approach to the context
Pregunta 12
Describa las lecciones clave aprendidas y cómo su organización planea mejorar la iniciativa. (Máximo 200 palabras)
The business objectives were specific and attainable as we completed the project in a timely limited manner our services concept was highly appropriate to the business objective.
More over structured, targeted and thorough assessment exercises of SDG targets through activities. Increased innovative initiatives that more comprehensively address and serve the SDGs.
Lead the propagation of SDGs throughout the Kingdom (and ensure all entities align with SDG outcomes through as many initiatives as possible)
Put further emphasis on more inclusive decision-making by increasing participation of vulnerable groups in co-creating innovative services that directly addresses the SDGs.