The Honourable Deputy Minister for Social Development Ms Bathabile Dlamini, will on Monday, 27uly 2009, deliver a keynote address at the Social protection course for government policy makers in the University of Cape Town.
The University of Cape Town, Maastricht University, Institute for Development Studies (Sussex), together with the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) which is a non-profit organisation, are offering a two week course on the design and the implementation of social transfer programmes.
The course include, amongst the participants, 60 government officials involved in the design and implementation of a social transfer programmes in the countries, as well as donor agency representatives and practitioners from non-profit organisations and international agencies.
Ms Dlamini i her capacity as the Deputy Minister has been invited to share with the participants, the government initiatives and programmes as well as new interventions to socially protect the people of South Africa. The Deputy Minister will only address the course’s opening banquet in Cape Milner Hotel in Cape Town on the evening. The course will run until 8 August.
Amongst issues that will be addressed and the Deputy Minister will touch on is the growing global demand for social protection capacity building, and with financial support from the United Kingdom Department of International Development. The social grant programme which is offered as one of the social security major in South Africa will also be touched upon and be aligned with the continental and international initiatives.
Members of the media are invited to attend and cover this gathering and enlighten the public of its outcome.
For more information contact:
Zanele Mngadi
Cell: 082 330 1148
Issued by: Department of Social Development
24 July 2009
