EPA Objectives

1. Contribute to raising effectiveness and efficiency of professional urban planning activities and practices to facilitate the achievement of sustainable urban development in accordance with officially adopted governmental visions at both local and federal levels.
2. Contribute to the training and professional development of planning practitioners through the dissemination of contemporary knowledge and improving basic and advanced skills.
3. Encourage and sponsor pure and applied scientific research in the various urban planning and design fields in accordance to the country’s needs and developmental priorities.
4. Development and dissemination of professional ethical principles, conducts and practices among planning practitioners in all sectors.
5. Collaborate with higher education institutions in the country to facilitate the development and offering of academic and continuing professional educational planning programs that are in line with the country’s job market requirements.
6. Participate in conferences and urban planning professional gatherings both regionally and internationally upon attaining the formal consent from the Ministry.
7. Reinforce the effective participation of professionally qualified UAE nationals in different urban planning fields within both the public and private sectors.
8. Contribute to the development of official systems of registration, evaluation, classification and professional licensing for both planning practitioners and consultancy firms in collaboration with the relevant competent governmental authorities in the country.
9. Provide technical urban planning support and professional advice to all relevant governmental entities in the UAE, through bilateral cooperation agreements upon the official approval of the Ministry.