Luanda - At least 829, 486 households were registered until August this year, across the country, under the Social Monetary Transfer Programme (Kwenda), intended to help the citizens in vulnerable situations.
Created by Angolan Executive, Kwenda aims to create policies to support the most vulnerable families.
The project covers four components: Social Monetary Transfers, Productive Inclusion, Municipal Social Action and Single Social Registry.
According to a press release issued at the First Ordinary meeting of the Commission for Social Policy of the Council of Ministers held this Wednesday, chaired by the minister of State for the Social Area, Dalva Ringote Allen, at least one money transfer, to 592, 212 households, was conducted.
The programme directly benefited 16,924 families with productive inclusion actions.
At the meeting, the Commission for Social Policy of the Council of Ministers approved a document that presents a brief assessment of social programmes, namely the Integrated Intervention Plan for Municipalities (PIIM), the Integrated Programme for Local Development and Combating Poverty (PIDLCP) and the Kwenda Programme.
The Commission also presented measures to improve the execution of the referred programmes, in order to guarantee a greater intervention of the Bodies of the Local Administration of the State and to guarantee, in an integrated and complementary way, the effective satisfaction of the basic needs of the citizens.
Execution of the PIIM registers improvements
As for the PIIM, the commission found that until June of this year there were significant improvements in compliance with the previous conditions of the projects, with 2.040 projects being executed, against the 1, 749 initially scheduled .
Regarding the PIDLCP, the document states that 76,636 people were integrated into income-generating activities, which corresponds to 83.99 percent in relation to the target set for the five-year period 2018-2022.
Still, 35 411 children under 5 years of age benefited from the minimum social income, representing an implementation level of 244 percent.
In general, the PIDLCP reached a degree of 77.07 percent, compared to the targets established for the five-year period.
Restructuring of programmes
The Commission recommended, after analysing the critical aspects and constraints relating to the execution of the programmes, the adoption of measures that allow for the restructuring and redefinition of their strategic axes, aiming at the uniqueness of the mechanisms for monitoring and supervising the projects.
Education
The meeting analysed, within the scope of improving the quality of the education and teaching system, the Draft Presidential Decree that establishes the regime for the creation, organisation and operation of private and public-private institutions of pre-school education and primary and secondary education .
The diploma intends to clarify the degree of State intervention in private and public-private institutions of non-university education, as well as their level of autonomy, in accordance with the limits imposed by the rules of the Democratic State of Law.
Union claims
The meeting also appreciated a memorandum containing proposed measures to deal with strike and union demands, with a view to its better evaluation from a legal, budgetary, economic and social point of view.
The Commission found that, in general, the claims presented by the different trade union organisations converge and basically boil down to salary updating, given the loss of purchasing power, salary increases to ensure equity, generalisation of health insurance and improvement of working living conditions.
The adoption of a system of incentives to attract and retain staff in remote areas and career promotion and updating of categories are also part of the demands.
To mitigate and solve such problems, the Commission proposes, among other measures, carrying out impact studies on the resumption of the principle of annual salary adjustment based on expected inflation, gradual career promotion and updating of categories.
It also proposes a framework within the subsidy regime and monitored prices of drugs for diabetes mellitus, blood pressure, rheumatological, kidney, collagen and tuberculosis diseases, considering their degree of incidence in the civil service, as well as the standardization of the isolation subsidy according to established legal criteria and the generalization of health insurance in the civil service.
Speaking to the press at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, pointed out that the proposed revision of the Presidential Decree that establishes the regime for the creation, organisation and operation of private and public-private education institutions aims to promote employment and the strengthening of entrepreneurial institutions in the various domains.
"We intend to bring together initiatives that can generate employment for youth and expand the offer of education services in different communities and different levels of education, as well as streamline the mechanisms, that is to simplify the processes of operation and organization of schools of education private", highlighted the minister.
The minister made it known, on the other hand, that the meeting also addressed the creation of a platform for negotiation with trade unions and all strike movements from various sectors of the civil service.
According to the minister, there is a team with different ministerial departments, supervised by the Minister of State for the Social Area, Dalva Ringote, and coordinated by the Ministry of Public Administration and Social Security, which works for the platform, aiming at solving problems in a uniform way.
He informed that all civil service unions will be integrated into the work for this platform, which has already started to work.
