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ENHANCEMENT OF SOCIAL PROTECTION
Hon. Amongi
launching the
Investment Case for
Social Protection
in Uganda Report.
Looking on is Hon.
Flavia Kabahenda,
Chairperson, UPFSP.
services, among others. Uganda’s Ms. Beatrice Okillan,
Vision 2040 identifies Human Policy and Advocacy
Coordinator, ESP
Capital Development as a key Programme receives
fundamental for development. a token from Ms.
Specifically, Objective 2 of the Jane Muyanga Kitili,
Director, National
NDPIV highlights such strategies to; Social Protection
a) Improve access, equity and Secretariat of Kenya
quality of education at all levels
b) Improve access, equity and
quality of healthcare at all levels
c) Rehabilitate, equip and
construct health infrastructure
at all levels
d) Enhance access to water,
sanitation, and hygiene
e) Promote community
mobilisation and mind-set
change
f) Expand social protection safety l) Promote better nutrition for all. 2029, and the State of Social
nets Other key issues partaining to Protection Report, 2024. The
g) Institutionalize manpower the social protection sub-sector, documents showcase their
planning and promote including the need to establish potential to lift millions out of
industry-driven skilling and school feeding programmes, the poverty and into sustainable
training child disability grant, community development.With an agenda
h) Promote empowerment and health insurance, and expanding designed to engage a multiplicity
livelihood programmes for social safety nets took centre of stakeholders, the Social
youth, women, children, older stage. Stakeholders shared Protection Month is more than just
persons and persons with successful experiences, exchanged a celebration—it is a call to action.
disabilities knowledge, and explored By raising awareness, fostering
i) Promote decent employment opportunities to further integrate collaboration, and highlighting
opportunities social protection into Uganda’s best practices, this initiative will
j) leverage the culture and development trajectory. empower the public to demand for
creative economy for The event also featured the stronger and more effective social
employment and domestic launch of the Social Protection protection systems.
Full Reports can be accessed on
resource mobilization Investment Case, the National www.mglsd.go.ug and www.
k) Promote games and Sports Social Protection Strategy, 2024-
socialprotection.go.ug
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