UNB, Dhaka :
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki on Friday said the government would implement the ‘Social Assistance Programme for Non-Asseters (SAPNA)’ as a project shortly to reduce poverty and empower women.
Poverty in the country is being reduced gradually as the government has been providing various allowances to the target groups under various safety net programmes, she said, addressing the closing ceremony of a workshop for the 2nd batch of officials related to SAPNA programme at the Department of Women Affairs in the city.
The state minister said that SAPNA is really a good programme that would help reduce poverty by providing maternity allowance to marginal women.
SAPNA has been visualised to serve as a safety net model of six pillars for poverty alleviation through maternity allowance, mothers health, nutrition, family planning, education, cultural freedom, housing and sanitation, livelihood and other income generating inputs, and savings & micro-credit.
The gender-based SAPNA centered in maternity allowance programme of the government is being implemented by Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP) with the financial support of Spanish Agency of International Co-operation for Development (AECID).
The model was piloted in three upazilas in the coastal district of Laxmipur. DORP has started the programme in January 2009 to eradicate poverty from the country. In June 2010, it provided the SAPNA package to 450 mothers, selected by the government authorities.
After successful completion of the first phase, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) provided support for a second phase, which allowed the project to expand to two additional upazilas – Kaliganj of Gazipur district and Chatkhil of Noakhali district.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki on Friday said the government would implement the ‘Social Assistance Programme for Non-Asseters (SAPNA)’ as a project shortly to reduce poverty and empower women.
Poverty in the country is being reduced gradually as the government has been providing various allowances to the target groups under various safety net programmes, she said, addressing the closing ceremony of a workshop for the 2nd batch of officials related to SAPNA programme at the Department of Women Affairs in the city.
The state minister said that SAPNA is really a good programme that would help reduce poverty by providing maternity allowance to marginal women.
SAPNA has been visualised to serve as a safety net model of six pillars for poverty alleviation through maternity allowance, mothers health, nutrition, family planning, education, cultural freedom, housing and sanitation, livelihood and other income generating inputs, and savings & micro-credit.
The gender-based SAPNA centered in maternity allowance programme of the government is being implemented by Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP) with the financial support of Spanish Agency of International Co-operation for Development (AECID).
The model was piloted in three upazilas in the coastal district of Laxmipur. DORP has started the programme in January 2009 to eradicate poverty from the country. In June 2010, it provided the SAPNA package to 450 mothers, selected by the government authorities.
After successful completion of the first phase, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) provided support for a second phase, which allowed the project to expand to two additional upazilas – Kaliganj of Gazipur district and Chatkhil of Noakhali district.
