Collaboration with UN on social policy development to be deepened
Ongoing and upcoming cooperation projects between the UN and Mongolia were discussed.
Ongoing and upcoming cooperation projects between the UN and Mongolia were discussed during the meeting between Head of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social policy, Education, Culture and Science, Botzorig. Yo members of the standing committee and United Nations Resident Coordinator Beate Trankmann. The sides discussed about overseeing the implementation of the International Monetary Fund’s extended fund facility program being carried out in Mongolia. It was also agreed that the government should focus on addressing issues such as poverty, maternal mortality rate and environmental degradation. However, Mongolian Parliament has increased the budget for social development affairs in recent years, the budget is still insufficient for meeting the surge in demand caused by the country’s growing population and state funding for social policy per capita. In addition, parliament was agreed to collaborate with the UN and Asian Development Bank to allocate optimal budget spending in social policy development, especially for optimizing investment in health, education, culture, and art sectors during the talk.
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