Dubai
Municipality
Dubai
Municipality is regarded as one of the largest establishments
in Dubai in terms of the number of people it employs,
the volume of services it provides to the public
and the projects it carries out. Dubai Municipality
is the major driving force behind the development
process of the Dubai City as a whole.
The
Municipality was established in 1940s with a total
staff strength of three persons who were operating
from a single room. However, it was in 1965 that
Dubai Municipality came into being officially. The
Municipality kept up its steady growth since its
inception and has now become a large organisation
with more than 10,000 staff working in over 20 departments.
In short, the municipality's growth reflects the
growth of the Dubai City in general.
Dubai
Municipality's Vision
To
sustain the momentum of development taking place
in Dubai, the Municipality has laid down a future
vision for the city taking into account the nature
of development in the modern era of globalization.
Personifying this vision, the Municipality has also
laid down a number of objectives and the necessary
mechanism to put them into practice by creating
an effective administrative set-up and introducing
appropriate administrative procedures that enjoy
a great deal of transparency. This helps its different
departments and sections to clearly identify the
end-results they are required to achieve, with the
cooperation of each member of the public with whom
the municipality deals with.
Dubai's
future vision is characterized by the constant improvement
of the living standard in Dubai and its living conditions
, which is accomplished by striking a dynamic balance
between the city's population, its resources and
development objectives on the one hand and its environment
systems on the other. To achieve its vision and
objectives, Dubai Municipality has adopted sound
development policies and strategies that take into
account the most modern developments in the fields
of engineering, city beautification, information
technology, environment, health, administration,
transport and basic infrastructure. This has deservedly
made the municipality to contribute effectively
to make the city one of the most outstanding centres
of industry, trade, business and tourism in the
Middle East and the world as a whole. This is apart
from providing several distinctive services to various
segments of the society.
Objectives
of Dubai Municipality
Commercial
Sector:
To provide sufficient commercial land plots, allocate
them and classify them in a way that ensures high
quality service to investors in the Emirate of Dubai;
and develop administrative procedures, studies,
planning information and related legislation with
a high degree of transparency.
Industrial
Sector:
To provide sufficient industrial land plots, allocate
them and classify them in a way that ensures high
quality service to investors in the Emirate of Dubai;
and develop administrative procedures, studies,
planning information and related legislation with
a high degree of transparency.
Tourism
Sector:
To provide sufficient land plots for tourist activities,
allocate them and classify them in a way that ensures
high quality service to investors in the Emirate
of Dubai; and develop administrative procedures,
studies, planning information and related legislation
with a high degree of transparency.
Infrastructure
Sector:
1.
To set up modern, safe, comfortable and economically
viable roads; continually develop them; achieve
a high degree of safety in them; increase the capacity
of the Creek crossing mechanisms; and pursue comprehensive
technical systems.
2.
To provide the city with a safe drainage, ground
and storm water disposal network; provide an irrigation
network for the city's green belt in public streets
and parks; provide fertilizers; set up and maintain
public parks; and increase green areas in the emirate.
3.
To protect the architectural heritage; preserve
the distinctive architectural identity and modern
environment of the emirate; maintain public buildings
and roads; and provide housing services.
4.
To protect environment and safeguard public health
by preventing spread of communicable diseases; ensure
a good international standard for foodstuff available
in the emirate; and ensure general and occupational
safety in all establishments of both the public
and private sectors.
5.
To ensure the most ideal use of the state-of-the-art
technology in the field of information and telecommunication
in developing the administration and its constant
improvement.
Cultural
Sector:
To provide advanced library services using improved
techniques in serving the public.
Human
Resources Sector:
To Develop the human resources; increase their efficiency;
and continue to promote them by laying down outstanding
recruitment and training policies and plans; introduce
recruitment, training and nationalization programmes
under an administrative framework that encourages
floating of new ideas and innovative initiatives.
