UNDP invites John Mahama to lead discussion on poverty reduction

Vice President John Dramani Mahama is in Brasilia, Brazil to attend the UNDP-organised Fifth Ministerial Forum for Development.

The Forum will focus on the need to aggressively tackle social inequalities, which have been identified as the key challenge for many societies despite on-going strategies to overcome poverty.

A statement issued from the Office of the Vice President copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Tuesday said Vice President Mahama was invited by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to lead a discussion on a case study of Ghana’s poverty reduction and social policies.

“This is informed by what the UNDP says is the need to emphasise ideas that inspire social policies, the type of social policies needed in the face of inequality and the linkage with economic and labour policies.”

It said Vice President Mahama’s presentation would draw from President John Evans Atta Mills’ on-going strategies to tackle the inequality between the North and South of Ghana through the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), how weak institutional structure of education and health service delivery systems were being managed and the focus on expanding the fiscal space.

While in Brazil, Vice President Mahama would hold meetings with officials of the Brazilian Government and business leaders.

The three-day forum is from May 29-31.

Source: GNA