Iraq and the World Bank to discuss mechanisms for implementing the new law on social protection



2016-11-2 14:36


{Baghdad: Euphrates news} the labour and Social Affairs Minister Mohammad sheyaa, with representatives of the World Bank, the mechanisms for implementing the law on social protection.

The Ministry statement quoted received {Euphrates news}, version, during a meeting, representatives of the Sudanese International Bank headed by senior social protection in Bank Ghassan Hoja, saying that "working with WB continues because his position is clear in the area of continuing technical support to Iraq, as well as an international partner in developing an integrated social protection system for the country through the road map agreed by the end of 2014, and subject to audit procedures.

During the meeting, said, "during the meeting addressed the subject of continuous survey throughout all governorates of Iraq including hot provinces, as well as standing on the results of the analysis of social search forms that are supposed to accomplish by executive management strategy for poverty alleviation in the Ministry of planning.

Sudanese noted, it said that "this achievement will help to identify and exclude non-eligible and thereby provide an opportunity for eligible coverage under the new coverage requests received by the Ministry and the approximately 1 million request.

He noted "continuing social searches across provinces of Iraq including hot provinces population currently in displacement sites in Kurdistan and the rest of the provinces."

The Sudanese said the meeting included discussion of conditional cash grants to improve education, health and housing services in coordination with the relevant ministries such as education and health, as well as discuss the working mechanisms of these subsidies with World Bank experts and how they are calculated and the criteria adopted in the coverage of social protection law families. "

The statement said, was "to discuss the recent Cabinet decision to integrate staff retirement funds with private sector and reflect the view of the Ministry in support of this trend to preserve the Ministry work with regard to the implementation of labour law and social security retirement law implications for workers as well as Arabic and international labour standards".

The Sudanese Minister added that the labour sector is one of the most important sectors, "pointing out that" not only the integration issue pension but it comes to ensure working rights and privileges and social and cultural services.

Ghassan said Hoja, it said that "the visit is aimed at continuing technical support provided by the World Bank to the Ministry of labour and the Government of Iraq in the field of social protection and poverty reduction programmes in Iraq," the Ministry's role in the coverage of families and the poorest families in Iraq under the social protection programme and remittances in Iraq ", stating that" this experience is one of the best experiences in the world ".

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