Tunis: A small cabinet meeting was held on Thursday at the Government Palace in Kasbah, chaired by Prime Minister Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri, and dedicated to monitoring the progress of the implementation of public programmes and projects across all sectors and regions of the country. Opening the meeting, the Prime Minister stressed the importance of accelerating the completion of all public programmes and projects within the set deadlines and to a high standard of quality, considering them a fundamental pillar for achieving comprehensive, equitable and balanced development, boosting public and private investment, economic growth, and employment. According to Agence Tunis Afrique Presse, the Prime Minister underscored the need to develop the approach adopted in managing and governing public projects by improving their readiness through prior assessment of the technical, land, economic, social, and environmental aspects of each project and its feasibility before its inclusion in implementation programmes, so as to avoid delays during execution. She also called for improving public procurement management, shortening deadlines, and simplifying procedures. The Prime Minister highlighted the state's determination to speed up the completion of ongoing public projects within their deadlines and launch new projects to ensure regional development, economic growth, and social justice, contributing to stimulating the national economy, improving the investment climate, and creating jobs, in accordance with state policy and the directives of the Head of State. She called for overcoming all challenges and difficulties, ensuring close field monitoring of project implementation by the concerned structures, removing obstacles, and establishing monitoring and inspection mechanisms for works in all sectors and regions of the country. In this regard, she urged officials at the central, regional, and local levels to closely follow up on projects under their responsibility, resolve issues promptly, simplify procedures, and interact posit ively with citizens and investors to overcome any difficulties they may encounter. She also stressed the need to accelerate file processing and project completion while ensuring efficiency and quality, in line with the President's vision. The Prime Minister affirmed that the state is currently reviewing the legal and regulatory framework governing investment, implementing digital transformation projects within the administration, reducing file-processing times, eliminating a number of administrative permits, and modernising the public procurement system in order to further stimulate investment and simplify administrative procedures. She also highlighted the importance of the unified digital platform established for monitoring public projects, which provides real-time detailed data on each project across the entire Tunisian territory, enabling accurate monitoring of implementation progress, performance measurement, tracking of completion rates, identification of challenges, and timely decision-making. For hi s part, Minister of Economy and Planning Samir Abdelhafidh presented a detailed review of the progress of several major programmes and projects, particularly in sectors such as health, transport, public works and housing, energy transition and mining, agriculture, environment, digitalisation, higher education and scientific research, education, vocational training, and the cultural and heritage sector. At the end of the meeting, the Prime Minister stressed the need to overcome challenges and obstacles affecting all projects and intensify efforts at the central, regional, and local levels. She also emphasised the need to hold accountable anyone who fails in their professional duties and causes delays in project implementation, whether from the executing authority or the monitoring body, affirming that no one is above accountability and the law, regardless of their level of responsibility.