Rinaani Musutua of the Basic Income Grant Coalition

Tujoromajo Kasuto BIG Coalition says the recently launched Social Protection Policy 2021-2030 which was expected to outline comprehensive interventions to achieve the eradication of poverty is a disappointment. Rinaani Musutua of the Basic Income Grant Coalition says that the policy states that social protection must help people to “cope with the risks, vulnerabilities and shocks throughout their life cycle”. This includes poverty, illness, hunger, lack of income, inability to access education, health sanitation, housing etc and the policy documents have played a big role in reducing the poverty gap, especially the universal old age pension. However, she observes, that when…