Africa-Press – Angola. Fifty officials, including municipal administrators, heads of departments and social partners, are taking part since Tuesday, in Menongue, Cuando Cubango, in a seminar to improve knowledge on protection in the context of the municipalization of social action.
The two-day seminar aims to reduce the vulnerability of families residing in the nine municipalities that make up the province of Cuando Cubango.
In an initiative of the Ministry of Social Action, Family and Women’s Promotion (MASFAMU), the work is being monitored by Secretary of State Lúcio Gonçalves do Amaral.
Speaking at the opening act, the local governor, José Martins, said that the activity will reinforce the expansion of the municipalization of social action, management of individual cases, municipal vulnerability diagnoses and management of community projects in its area of jurisdiction.
He defended the need to extend the program to the remaining municipalities, taking into account its importance in the development of families, whose dynamism and effective expansion in the current context requires an increase in specialized human capital committed to fighting hunger and reducing poverty .
He stressed that municipal administrations play an important role in boosting and expanding the municipalization of actions to combat social vulnerability.
“The municipalization of social action aims to bring social action services closer to the populations, specifically the most vulnerable, with concrete actions of prevention, protection and promotion of communities to be heard through the integrated social action centres”, he said.
Topics such as basic social protection in Angola, the municipalization of social action, the diagnosis of vulnerability and the operation of CASI, community projects and the information and management system for social action will be addressed.
The program that started in 2020, in the municipality of Cuito Cuanavale, has already trained more than 30 local technicians, 54 Community Health Development Agents (ADECOS), who join the other 125 across the province, making a total of 179 agents.
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