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Saudi Cities Management: Identity Crisis

Saudi Cities Management: Identity Crisis. Dr. Adnan Alshiha Department of Public Administration King Saud University. Questions Need To Be Answered?. What is city management ? Do we have city management in Saud i Arabia? How local services get delivered in Saudi c ities?

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Saudi Cities Management: Identity Crisis

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  1. Saudi Cities Management: Identity Crisis Dr. Adnan Alshiha Department of Public Administration King Saud University

  2. Questions Need To Be Answered? • What is city management? • Do we have city management in Saudi Arabia? • How local services get delivered in Saudi cities? • Do Saudi Arabia afford or capable to continue ignoring local governance? • What is the challenges facing Saudi cities? • What is the future outlook?

  3. What is city management? • Decision-making by local authorities. • Managing the affairs of the city in accordance to local needs and preferences. • Determining how the city would be in the future. • Responsible for local economic and social development. • Local problems need local solutions.

  4. Do we have a city management in Saudi Arabia? • The answer is “NO”!!! • The royal commission of Jubail and Yanbuis the exception! Examples for absence of city management: • The capital cities of Provinces do not have governors (Muhafeth)! • Municipality councils are not independent administratively and financially. • Local decisions are made at the central ministries. • The is no local administration system.

  5. Continue- Do we have a city management in Saudi Arabia? • Saudi cities are perceived as merely human settlements not as political unites. • There are no legal / political city limits. • No local administrative body serving local interest and responding to local needs. • Fragmented administrative decision- making among government apparatus

  6. How local services get delivered? • Local decisions are made centrally! • Services are granted with no reference to local needs! • Public Bureaucracies (central ministries branches at localities) are dominating the local decision making • An absence of local legislative councils with adequate authority to manage all sectors of the city. • Not all municipality decisions are technical.

  7. How local decisions are made? Central Ministries Regional offices Local decisions Made centrally

  8. The cost of not developing local governance • Local problems may lead to instability. • Social control need narrow span of control. • Local development is the grass-roots of national development.

  9. challenges facing Saudi cities • Urban sprawl • Over populated • Unemployment • Housing shortages • Inefficient and uncoordinated public services delivery • Increasing political demand • Changing pattern of consumption

  10. What should be done? • There is a need for a local administration system that: • grant sufficient authority for local and regional council. • Coordinate the relationship between national, regional, and local units. • The local council should be responsible for achieving local interest within determined city boundaries.

  11. Thank you

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