The Operational unit for Development Assistance (OUDA) was established 1992 in partnership between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and United Nations Development Programme. Upon the Prime Minster decree in 2003 the Egyptian Government established the unit operational mechanism to be under the capacity of H.E. Minister of International Cooperation. The development objective of OUDA is to foster national self-reliance in the administration of externally-assisted development projects, and maximize the use of foreign funds inputs. OUDA mandate is to provide and improve support to externally assisted programmes and projects, providing its services to ministries, private sector, NGOs which are recipient of official foreign development assistance. To develop a cadre of national professionals who will be needed in order to render development assistance more effective, objective-oriented and cost effective.