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Vulnerable Groups Flagship Projects
Establishment of a consolidated Social Protection Fund: This will be established for cash transfers to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs), the elderly and other persons facing vulnerabilities.
Implementation of the Disability Fund: This fund will be inclusive of appropriate budgetary allocations to provide financial assistance to Persons with Disabilities for their socio-economic empowerment.
Representation of PWDs in decision making processes at all levels:This will ensure that issues that directly affect the PWDs are adequately addressed in policies and legal frameworks, programmes and projects. Other programmes: These will include:
Developing an integrated data management system for vulnerable groups;
Empowering children through improved children rehabilitation programmes;
Increasing the level of public awareness on the needs, aspirations and capacities of vulnerable persons;
Establishing the National Drought Contingency fund;
Enhancing the Hunger Safety Nets Programme;
Implementing HIV/AIDS programmes;
Strengthening Child protection programmes;
Enhancing alternative family care services (adoption, foster care, and guardianship);
Eliminating child labour, discrimination and malpractices as well as other retrogressive practices causing vulnerabilities among the target groups;
Improving and expanding existing prison penal institutions for youthful offenders, aged, and other vulnerable groups; and
Restructuring pension schemes to increase savings for the old in order to reduce their dependency.
