MONROVIA — The Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection is leading the process to update and redesign the National Social Protection Strategy and Policy, which has expired since 2019. The policy discussion which included nine government institutions and a host of local and International partners in the Social Protection sector, was led by the Minister of Gender Children and Social Protection, who chairs the National Social Protection Steering Committee. Also in separate remarks during the National Social Protection Steering Committee Meeting over the weekend, Youth and Sports Minister D. Zeogar Wilson emphasized coordination in the Social Protection sector, for result oriented programs. On efforts to produce an updated and redesigned National Social Protection Policy and Strategy, the National Social Protection Coordinator and head of the Liberia Social Safety Nets Project (LSSN) Aurelius Butler stressed the importance of producing a policy and strategy that meet current national realities. “It has been three years since our existing National Social Protection Policy and Strategy expired, which places us in a situation of not being free to jump into many things.
