The World Food Program’s (WFP) Country Strategic Plan for South Sudan – valued at 3.7 billion US dollars – has been approved to improve food security over the next three years, a government spokesperson announced.
Speaking to reporters after the cabinet meeting in Juba on Friday, Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said: “The cabinet listened to a presentation from the Vice President for the Gender and Youth Cluster, Madam Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior on her mission to the World Food Program on the country`s strategic plan 2023- 2024, and in her deliberation, they managed to negotiate for South Sudan a sum of 3.7 billion US dollars being a grant of aid to the people of South Sudan.”
He added, “This amount is to be used in various activities, to be used in the flooding, to be used in the disaster management, to be used in all aspects of agriculture, so all the ministries were directed to read that report and pick their areas of concerns and start to develop them in the form of projects.”
He noted that the line ministries will have to develop projects so that the WFP can support them.
Separately, Michael Makuei said the minister of labour also presented the vocational training and skills development policy, which will train the necessary human resources that the country currently needs.
“This was a policy developed so that we can come out to train the necessary skilled labour because our market is lacking skilled labour and as such, they had to prepare this policy so that they can streamline the training and this will cover both the public and private sectors,” he said.
“Minister of Justice was supposed to make a presentation of two laws that was the Public Finance and Accountability Act 2011 amendment ill 2022 and the Petroleum Revenue Management Act 2013 amendment 2022. These two bills were differed and sent back to the economic cluster because these two bills are connected with the revenue and finances, so they were referred to the economic cluster for study, after which they will be presented again to the cabinet,” he concluded.