develop_region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
iso2:
ST
iso3:
STP
Continent:
Africa
Official name:
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
Slide presentation of the webinar held on 07 December 2023.
The human right to social security was recognized 75 years ago in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and later in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1966. All Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP) countries and Timor-Leste are party to the ICESCR with the exception of Mozambique.
The UN Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) - FAO, IFAD and WFP - with their shared mandate of ensuring food security for all people, have joined forces to support one of the most impactful evidence-based interventions to positively transform global food systems: national Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes. In line with the UN Food Systems Summit outcome and the Global School Meals Coalition, the RBAs will work together to strengthen country capacities to design and implement national HGSF programmes by facilitating South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC).
Social safety net programs focus on a subset of the population, usually the poorest and most vulnerable. However, in most developing countries there is no administrative data on relative wealth of the population to support the selection process of the potential beneficiaries of the social safety net programs. Hence, selection into programs is often multi-methodological approached and starts with geographical targeting for the selection of program implementation areas.
São Tomé e Príncipe tem feito progresso significativo na área daproteção social, particularmente com a aprovação da Lei de Enquadramento daProteção Social em 2004, a aprovação do programa de alimentação escolar em 2010 e a relevância dada à proteção social na Segunda Estratégia Nacional de Redução da Pobreza do país 2012-2016 (ENRP II).
