Delivery Champs Program | Public Institutions

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

During Covid-19 pandemic, the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) in partnership with the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) launched a new initiative to support Saudis working in delivery service through Apps registered in CITC, with a monthly support of 3,000 Saudi Riyals. This initiative aims at raising the levels of emiratisation in this activity, and creating new job opportunities that meet the different types of work, including (self-employment), and in response to the precautionary health measures adopted by the state through a number of government institutions and financial incentives to reduce the economic and health consequences of a pandemic.

Country

Saudi Arabia

Institution

Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) in partnership with Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC)