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Draft Environmental and Social Systems Assessment (ESSA) - Strengthening Quality of the Social Protection System - P168993

2 Jun 2020

It states that “the State recognizes the family as the natural and fundamental element of the society and the right of everyone to form a family and undertakes to promote the legal, economic and social protection of the family”. [...] By design, two of the largest social protection programs, RP and HCP7, do not explicitly target the poorest but still, 30 percent of the beneficiaries of the RP, and 50 percent of the beneficiaries of the HCP program, are in the lowest two quintiles. [...] The main act related to the environmental and social assessment at the national level is the Environment Protection Act, 2016 (Act 18 of 2016), which is a comprehensive legislation and provides a legislative framework for protection, conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of the environment as well as the necessity to mitigate negative, unavoidable impacts to the environment and the people. [...] The functions of the Ministry are established in Section 4 of the Act, as follows: (i) administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this Act; (ii) develop and implement policies, programs and guidelines in pursuance of the national objectives on environment protection; (iii) co-ordinate the activities of other agencies concerned with the protection of the environment ( under this Act; or un [...] The 1996 constitution recognizes that “family is the natural and fundamental element of society, and the right of everyone to form a family and the state undertakes to promote the legal, economic and social protection of the family10”.
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Murrugarra,Edmundo

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Doc Name
Draft Environmental and Social Systems Assessment (ESSA) - Strengthening Quality of the Social Protection System - P168993
Document Date
2020-06-02
Originating Unit
Social Protection & Labor AFR 1 (HAFS1)
Published in
United States of America
Rel Proj ID
SC-Strengthening Quality Of The Social Protection System -- P168993
Volume No
1

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