Mahdi Keywords: Social Development Fund supports the poor

Mahdi Keywords: Social Development Fund supports the poor



05/04/2017 0:00

BAGHDAD / Shokran Fatlawi / Emad Emirate
aimed at supporting and empowering groups and communities of poor and disadvantaged through operating community and local development program, and to restore trust between the citizen and the state and consolidate stability and promote social cohesion, with the support of the World Bank within Strutijeth for the Middle East and North Africa, Secretary General of the Council of Ministers d revealed . Mahdi Keywords closely the launch of a new strategy for the Social Development Fund in Iraq.
In this regard organized by the Deanship of the Faculty of Administration and Economics at Mustansiriya University, Department of Economics yesterday Economic Scientific Symposium tagged "national strategy for poverty alleviation in Iraq, the effects of the application and future trends" which was attended by the "morning" with the elite of the economy and planning experts and a large number of academics.
Chairman of the Technical Committee for the policies of poverty alleviation d. Mahdi Keywords Social Fund for Development in Iraq , which will hopefully be launched counted during the first half of this year , the important step in the way of empowering the poor, as well as he represents the mainstay of the new strategy, especially with the continuation of the social protection network 2015 - 2019 program, and a complement to the ongoing efforts to reform and the expansion of cash transfer programs.
And reviewed during his speech , the most prominent aspects that will be covered by the fund, particularly the operating, health, education, housing and social protection, pointing to the funding bodies of the Fund consists of the general budget of the state, provincial development budget, revenue and fees of investment, as well as the support of the World Bank at $ 50 million initially . With regard to operations and implementation Keywords said at the present time is preparing an operational manual with the support of the World Bank focuses on the project description, governance, institutional framework, management, sub - project cycle, procurement and financial management, social and environmental protection measures.
He Keywords that the priority in outstanding projects will be given to projects that serve the poorest segments of the population as well as infrastructure projects that require labor - intensive and use of local materials as much as possible , accompanied by projects that increase the regulatory capital or technical and social moderation institutions and beneficiaries, not to mention projects that benefit groups with special needs of people with disabilities, children and women who live in difficult conditions and face the risks and projects that are working to develop a permanent job opportunities.
He noted that the intended program jointly with the World Bank experts and is based on the pillars of a group the most important that the fund will support small labor-intensive infrastructure construction and social necessary and economic projects,
and is accompanied by the institutional design of the Fund, to start Msgerwaltusa by the program after the Social Development Fund to establish as well as the involvement of communities in identify and project implementation and supervision.
The Director General of the Executive presented the strategy of poverty alleviation Najla Ali Murad Road Map National Program for the project to address the random housing being widely spread recently indicating that the statistical survey , which was carried out by the Ministry of Planning Slums reached in 2013 2.5 million people living accommodation at random , a rate 8 percent of the total population in Iraq, while the number of gatherings or shops where random complexes 1552 reached the
number of housing units random reached 347 thousand homes at a rate of 7 percent of the total housing in Iraq
and pointed out that most communities were in Baghdad and cities the President Of (Baghdad 335, Nineveh 272, Basra 167, Dhi Qar 132, Anbar 102 heralds the deterioration of social, health, security and the physical condition of random cities, as well as being hotbeds of poverty may produce negative social effects also included the seminar, many inquiries and interventions on the new strategy and the establishment of a fund development, academics, and attendees enriched the seminar with ideas and proposals for the advancement of its being still under study and subject to change in an attempt to benefit from the experiences of countries that preceded Iraq in this regard and the need for concerted efforts by all the relevant authorities.

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