Poverty Alleviation And Capacity Building Of Marginalized Communities
- Promoting education in vulnerable groups of the community require academia and think tanks to play a critical role in promoting “Community Leaning Programs” that provide a safe and cordial environment of learning.
- Ministry of Education and IT departments can collaborate to introduce digital technology and digital education to overcome the barrier of discrimination and mismanagement.
- Through public-private engagement, there is a need to launch a “Teachers Training Program” at the middle/secondary level to enhance and encourage education, especially among young girls.
- Food system resilience in South Asian countries should be improved through the digitalization of food supply chains, social safety meters, and better access to farm credits.
- To address the employment loss due to COVID-19, both the public and corporate sectors need to address job security issues and come up with stimulus schemes and a clear-cut agenda to put such people back in the labour market.
- For engaging youth in economic growth and development, public-private partnerships models must be adopted to design capacity building programs that enable them to adapt to the current market opportunities.
- For a holistic public transformation approach that caters for all population groups, the public sector must develop micro and nano finance structures not only in urban, but also in rural areas.
- For rapid upscaling of employment opportunities in rural areas, Government needs to engage with the private sector to create infrastructure and an enabling environment for technology support.
- To overcome poverty challenges, a social change linked with family planning must be integrated into the policies and initiatives of the Ministry of Poverty.
- For post-COVID economic recovery in rural areas, there is a need to deploy active labour market policies capacity building of locals and subsidizing the employment and support for businesses.
- Government must provide an enabling environment for rural areas through temporary income support, increased investments in agriculture and environment guarantee schemes.
- Enhancing the technical and vocational skills of youth require access to affordable public services and formulation of innovative strategies and policy actions.
- Considering the importance of financial inclusion of youth for economic empowerment, there is a need to upscale skills development, vocational training, entrepreneurship support, social empowerment, and political participation.
