Arab National Reconstrution Committee

The Arab National Reconstruction Committee (Arabic: ) is an independent government agency established by the Council of Ministers of the Arab Union. It was originally established in 1998 at the beginning of the Arab Union's postwar reconstruction era, given the responsibility of overseeing the vast reconstruction projects funded by the federal government across the 20 republics of the Arab Union, each republican government being responsible for implementing the guidelines of the federal government's Reconstruction Committee through funds secured by the federal government and accessed by republican governments from the federal government via the Reconstruction Committee. The original Reconstruction Committee was dissolved in 2005 shortly before the official end of reconstruction, marked by the inauguration of the All-Union Expressway System and Union Rail, state-owned highway and intercity railway networks, respectively, newly constructed under the republican programs initiated and funded by the federal Reconstruction Committee.

The Arab National Reconstruction Committee was reformed on 20 February 2020, in order to address the vast needs of reconstruction across the Arab Union as the Arab Civil War or Arab Winter nears its end. Most of the reconstruction efforts have thus far been concentrated in the republics of Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan, although all republics have at least a small handful of federally-funded reconstruction projects as all republics were affected at one point or another by the civil war, even if not nearly as severely as others. Some reconstruction efforts in Syria and Libya have been hampered by continual insurgencies in those republics, frequently damaging or destroying newly refurbished communities and public services.

Due to the the efforts of the Reconstruction Committee as currently constituted, since the start of 2020 the vast majority of the Arab Union's population, at least 99%, live in safe, stable conditions, with relatively good living standards including access to food, medicine, and public utilities and social services. The only actual areas of the union not to have been restored under the current program are those areas still under control of extremist groups openly fighting the government, with such communities under siege from the Arab Army and its allies and thus unable to benefit from such programs let alone realistically set about ending the predominating violence. Some such areas continue to launch mortar and rocket attacks into rebuilt government-controlled areas; however, such victimised communities immediately benefit from yet another round of reconstruction and medical support, minimising the casualties and infrastructural damage successfully inflicted on the state by insurgent forces. As of May 2020, 377 civilians and 205 servicemembers of the Arab Union Armed Forces have been killed with about three times as much injured in insurgent attacks, which remains tragic despite representing a 440% decrease of casualties from the same period the previous year.