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Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation:
“The Social Fund has accomplished tangible & remarkable
success, facilitated the process of convincing donors to provide
necessary funding and contributed to achieving economic growth
in the country.”
Ahmed Mohammad Sufan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Planning and International Cooperation, has delivered a speech
in which he highly appreciated the special attention paid by
the political leadership, represented by H. E. the President
of the Republic, to social development. In his speech, he stressed
on the role of the Yemeni society in development, and that the
slogan of the third SFD phase will be “Development with
Community Participation”. He added that the government
has pursued the methodology of participation in planning and
strategy formulation and preparation of developmental reports.
He also said that the Social
Fund is inaugurating today its third phase of operations with
an estimated funding of 400 million dollars of loans and donations,
after the SFD has succeeded in implementing projects of a
total cost of 270 million dollars in the previous phases.
Mr. Vice Minister said that the reason behind establishing
the Social Fund for Development is to implement interventions
of developmental projects, to stimulate income-generating
projects, and to establish various programs in different social
and cultural fields. “The Social Fund has succeeded
greatly in project implementation and has facilitated the
government's task to convince donors to provide necessary
funding for the second and upcoming third phase; all of this
contributed in alleviating the impact of economical, financial,
and administrative reform, and in achieving economical growth
of 5% for the years 1996-2002”.
The
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International
Cooperation has also indicated to the government efforts to
implement the second five-year plan and Poverty Reduction
Strategy. He emphasized that these efforts aim to realize
the Millennium Development Goals such as decreasing poverty,
accomplishing the objective of “Education for All”,
improving the situation of women in education and work, reducing
infant mortality rates, improve maternal health and health
in general, controlling malaria and preserving environment.
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