Labor issues new directives to eradicate poverty in Iraq

The headquarters of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. "Internet"
 
05/05/2021

Economy News - Baghdad

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labor announced the issuance of directives to eradicate poverty, indicating that this was part of the government reforms program for the year 2021, which includes reforming the social protection projects and vocational rehabilitation centers for the unemployed.

"The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Abeer Chalabi held an expanded meeting with the members of the ministerial team formed to implement the directives of the Council of Ministers to start implementing the projects that fall under the responsibility of the Ministry of Labor within the government reforms program for the year 2021, which includes reforming my project," the ministry said in a statement. Social protection and vocational rehabilitation centers for the unemployed to eradicate poverty. "

According to the statement, Chalabi directed the members of the team to develop a unified and robust database to classify the beneficiaries according to age and health status to distinguish between the unemployed who are able to work from among the disabled, as well as classify the women without a breadwinner according to the number of children, and then identify those who are able to work and train them after rehabilitating the training centers and establishing new centers in Areas where there are no rehabilitation centers available to train them in various technical and professional skills according to the needs of the labor market, and it is possible to include them with project loans that the ministry provides for the unemployed to enable them economically and exit from the ministry's database and the possibility of including other numbers of disabled and women who lack breadwinners with social protection aid. 

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