{"id":987656281,"date":"2019-09-02T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/participation-of-the-p4h-regional-focal-point-in-the-ucesif-conference-in-niamey\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:28:22","slug":"participation-of-the-p4h-regional-focal-point-in-the-ucesif-conference-in-niamey","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/participation-of-the-p4h-regional-focal-point-in-the-ucesif-conference-in-niamey\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation of the P4H regional focal point in the UCESIF conference in Niamey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19 and 20, the<a href=\"http:\/\/ucesif.org\/ucesif\/\"><br \/>\n  <u>U<\/u><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ucesif.org\/ucesif\/\"><br \/>\n  <u>nion of Economic and Social Councils<\/u><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ucesif.org\/ucesif\/\"><u>&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>et Institutions similaires des Etats et gouvernements membres de la Francophonie (UCESIF) organized a symposium in Niamey on &#8220;the implementation of universal social protection floors: successes &nbsp;and difficulties&#8221;, inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Niger, Mr Brigi Rafini.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lecese.fr\/membre\/bernard-capdeville\"><br \/>\n  <u>Mr. Bernard Capdeville<\/u><br \/>\n<\/a>&nbsp;represented the EESC and moderated one of the sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by the Congolese Minister of Social Affairs, Humanitarian Action and Solidarity, the Vice-Minister of Gender and Women&#8217;s Affairs and the Deputy Minister of Women&#8217;s Affairs.&nbsp;of Social Protection from Ghana, 9 delegations from ESC members of La Francophonie, including several led by their presidents,  &nbsp;a hundred or so senior officials from African administrations responsible for social protection, and several international organizations (ILO, WHO, UNDP, UNFPA, FAO, IADEP).<\/p>\n<p>The speakers made a point of putting forward concrete proposals, sparking lively discussions over the two days.<\/p>\n<p>The various aspects of the implementation of social protection floors were explored, particularly complex in a sub-region where lack of resources, political instability and extreme poverty call for innovative and effective national solidarity mechanisms, backed by political will.<\/p>\n<p>The many testimonials demonstrated that it is possible to ensure a minimum level of protection for all, even with limited resources. &nbsp;As Juan Somavia, former Director General of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilo.org\/global\/about-the-ilo\/who-we-are\/international-labour-office\/lang--fr\/index.htm\"><br \/>\n  <u>ILO<\/u><br \/>\n<\/a>the world does not lack the resources to eradicate poverty, it lacks the real priorities&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Event Time : <\/b>19 Sep 2014 7:00 am to 20 Sep 2014 2:00 pm<br \/><b>Timezone:  <\/b><br \/><b>Event is Conference : <\/b>No<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19 and 20, the U nion of Economic and Social Councils &nbsp;et Institutions similaires des Etats et gouvernements membres de la Francophonie (UCESIF) organized a symposium in Niamey on &#8220;the implementation of universal social protection floors: successes &nbsp;and difficulties&#8221;, inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Niger, Mr Brigi Rafini.&nbsp; Mr. Bernard Capdeville &nbsp;represented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":987536212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[121],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987656281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987656281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987656281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987536212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987656281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987656281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987656281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}