Sentences with phrase «social protection programme»

The document suggests that development opportunities are crucial for many rural populations who continue to live in poverty, and the Government is attempting to address poverty and threats to the environment together through a new social protection programme.

So, today, I am happy to formally launch, by far the most ambitious social protection programme in our history.

«With the impact of two programmes of the Rauf Aregbesola administration in the state of Osun in our six years of, the Osun Youths Empowermemt Scheme (OYES), and the social protection programme for the elderly (Agba Osun), there is no doubt that the Federal Government has found solutions to many of the factors at the heart of Nigeria's socio - economic complications; attenuating poverty,» Okanlawon reiterated.

Our social protection programmes like youth engagement and empowerment, women development and empowerment, care for the aged and care and rehabilitation of the destitute have won laurels and hoisted for others to duplicate.

• In practical and policy terms, what this means is that the APC administration to be sworn in on October 15, 2018, by the grace of God, must resume good governance that was cut short four years ago, and once again prioritise social investments in education, healthcare and other social protection programmes that reduce the cost of living, while raising the quality of life.

Social protection programmes aimed at wealth redistribution and poverty reduction drew large segments of our population out of poverty.

«Aregbesola's government has performed excellently in terms of provision of physical infrastructures and social amenities and the social protection programmes of our government were adjudged best by reputable international organizations.

The UNICEF Nigeria Chief of Field Offices and Coordination who described social protection programmes as panacea to poverty reduction, said the initiative remains the only way to reach out to the people most especially the vulnerable who deserved all round intervention of socio - economic life.

He said the scheme was designed having realised the poor state of living of more than average of Nigerian, saying «it is unfortunate that in last few decades Nigeria's economy began to decline due to lack of government sensitivity to social protection programmes of the people.

«As such, it is imperative to commend the state government of Osun for being focused and committed to the welfare of the people of the state through his prompt provision of social protection programmes.

«So, to reduce poverty and vulnerability, social protection programmes must be adopted just as its benefits must be widely felt by the people.

«What we have today is the result of the interaction which the state have had with the UNICEF on the social protection programmes of this administration.

Symington, who paid a courtesy visit to the Governor's office in Osogbo described the social protection programmes of Osun Government as dividend of democracy and good governance.

The elimination of fossil fuel subsidies was one, as was the expansion of social protection programmes, a huge expansion of the global network of protected marine areas, etc..

This activity report provides an overview of international experiences that combine social and environmental objectives within one programme and extract some lessons learned from existing Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes that may be useful when designing, implementing and monitoring social protection programmes such as the Bolsa Verde programme.

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

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Through a programme being instituted by the Ministry of Agriculture through COCOBOD, the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection through the School Feeding Programme, and the Ministry of Education, President Akufo - Addo noted that the target is to ensure the sustained provision of cocoa beverages and chocolates to school children, from primary school up to secondary level.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has disclosed that, government has allocated GHc114 million to offset all arrears owed caterers under the school feeding programme.

Caterers in the Upper East Region say they will resist any attempt by the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection to impose on them rice that cost GHc180 per bag for the school feeding programme.

The report called on the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to collaborate with the Ghana Education Service to ensure that head teachers act as first - line managers or supervisors of the programme to complement the work of zonal coordinators.

According to him, social protection policies remained a mix of policies, programmes and projects designed for individuals and households throughout lifecycle aimed at ensuring that poverty, hunger among other social challenges are eliminated in the society.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba earlier said government had allocated GHc114 million to offset all arrears owed caterers under the school feeding programme.

The NHIS has about 11.3 million members, and is a social intervention programme which provides financial risk protection against out - of - pocket healthcare expenditure for all residents in Ghana.

But in response to these challenges, the Minister of Gender, Women and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur told Citi News government has made new commitments to the programme.

In the State of Tamil Nadu, the State Government has established the Tamil Nadu Aravanigal (Transgender) Welfare Board (TGWB) to address the social protection needs of hijra by linking them tosocial welfare programmes with the aim of reducing vulnerability to HIV and AIDS (Godwin, 2010).

The programme should also consider options to make up for non-economic losses; this could be done through external support for improved social protection.