The 103rd general assembly of the Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) executive council was recently held in Rabat. It was dedicated to discuss means of confronting the sustainable development challenges that Arab countries are currently facing. This is a major necessary step in the Arab world that is under endless threats, changes and attacks in recent years. Facing these challenges requires documenting cooperation and creating new, wider sustainability in partnership amongst them in various fields.

The efforts exerted by ARADO to develop public facilities and administrative development to meet Arab people's aspirations and ambitions are highly significant at such a critical phase, when all educational, health and state establishments in general need administrative development.

Some governments cannot bury their heads in the sand, especially since devastation in their cities is very considerable and goes way beyond all assessment of the cost. This devastation happens due to wars with local dimensions resulting from dreadful sectarian or religious conflicts, border clashes or multipurpose, multi-funded and armed or multiform terrorist attacks.

The situation requires objectivity and more Arab consolidation and cooperation instead of retreating, dropping or reviewing major countries' agendas on distributing powers, volume, regional defense power, the period of controlling energy resources or the volume of their reserves.

Despite hardships, Arab countries are full of successful experiences and experts capable of developing Arab administration officials and improving civil services provided in them. However, having administration levels that would satisfy Arab citizens requires cooperation from all social sectors including officials, administrators and citizens, especially in view of the Arab countries' burdens of devastation and destruction resulting from Arab uprisings.

The Arab World must not waste any more time and must take care of the future through administrative development strategies and visions exchanged regionally and internationally. ARADO was established in 1961 as a specialized organization of the League of Arab States to shoulder the responsibility of administrative development in the Arab region. So it has to reflect youth and future generations' ambitions and aspirations regardless of any deterrents caused by ignorance or clinging to the ages of dinosaurs.

By Labeed Abdal

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