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• Support schools and day care facilities and The social safety net provides support for a large
other community facilities proportion of vulnerable persons. It is however
• Fund domestic violence shelters, transitional recognized that persons face problems when
facilities, and strategies to end gender-based accessing social programmes, which arise from
violence different sources, such as inequality, uncertainty,
inefficiency, and dependency
To ensure that the social safety net adequately
addresses the needs of the vulnerable population
and does so in a sustainable manner, it is
important that the investment in such
programmes yields the intended benefits.
To achieve this, the PNM will create a National
POLICY STRATEGIES: PRIVATE Social Services Card System using a Unique e-
Identifier that will:
SECTOR PARTNERSHIP
• Develop a national register and tracking
system of vulnerable persons or families,
A policy strategy will be the involvement of the
private sector and the PNM will focus on the with the assistance of FBOs, NGOs and
Regional
Corporations,
councillors
of
provision of:
focusing on persons below the poverty line,
the chronically unemployed with special
• Shelters and safe places for women and emphasis on single parents, the aged, the
children disabled and the seriously ill.
• An online portal/hotline through which
private sector can register various forms of • Modernize the delivery of services by making
assistance for children in need use of ICT for consolidation and digital
• Tax concessions for those who support distribution and monitoring of social support
Children’s Homes and families in need programmes.
• Incentives the private sector to engage in
philanthropy to develop children and youth • Provide financial support aimed at expanding
• Incentives for private sector organizations the local production network by ensuring
that design systems for work-at-home or that food cards encourage the use of locally
reduced work from office, especially for produced goods
single mothers and single fathers
• Ensure that participation in social
ACCOUNTABILITY AND programmes is temporary and graduation
EFFICIENCY OF THE becomes a feature of social support
programmes
INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL
SERVICES • Develop a register of agencies and individuals
supportive of the vulnerable population. This
will include businesses that are supportive of
Annually, about half of government’s total the vulnerable and landlords who provide
expenditure is on transfers and subsidies. accommodation
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