× The new draft social protection policy of the Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare provides a background to social protection in Namibia and an assessment of the current social protection programmes.
It sets out the rationale for the policy and outlines the proposed social protection reforms. The draft policy builds to a significant extent on the recommendations of an ILO assessment of 2014 which proposed a comprehensive social protection floor for Namibia. Thus the new policy envisages widening of social grants, especially the maternity grant (a once-off payment for every woman giving birth) and the universal child grant […]
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