Luanda - MPLA party presented to the Luanda-based Church leaders the main actions on the agenda for the 2022-2027 five-year period, aimed at strengthening the existing partnership in the social and citizenship domains.
MPLA wants to once again count on the engagement of churches, NGOs and other civil society organisations in the actions of support for populations, with stress to the most vulnerable people.
As part of its electoral campaign, entering its final stage, the MPLA Citizenship and Civil Society Office brought together religious entities and civil society representatives, with the aim of "renewing the vote of confidence" among them.
Projects and programmes in the areas of education, health, gender equality, protection of children and the elderly are, among others, actions that the MPLA wants to count again with the support of churches and civil society.
In the education sector, for example, the MPLA wants to continue to rely on the support of these institutions, to reduce the illiteracy rate at all ages, lowering it to less than 20%.
The political party also plans to reduce as much as possible the number of children outside the education system, according to António Agostinho, who presented the programme.
MPLA also expects support to intensify digital education and its expansion in the respective curricula, especially at the primary and secondary education levels.
Regarding higher education, the party expects to work with the aforementioned entities, to place at least two institutions in the country among the 200 best in Africa, among other actions.
"We count on religious institutions and civil society to participate in the implementation of the MPLA Programme", reiterated António Agostinho.
On the other hand, the MPLA plans to reduce the unemployment rate to at least 25%, against the current 30.8%, investing in the professional internship programme, to facilitate the insertion of young people in the labour market, as well as the alteration of the remuneration model indexed to academic and technical qualifications.
Reducing as much as possible the rate of the population living below the poverty line, substantially increasing the number of households benefiting from direct monetary transfers and productive inclusion, namely through the Kwenda Programme, among the strategies of this party.
With Kwenda, it is expected, by 2025, to cover more than 1.6 million people with direct monetary transfers, to join the more than 320,000 already benefited, with about 16, 923 in productive activities.
The leaders of religious congregations said they hoped that the planned actions would be implemented and called for greater dialogue and consultation.
Representatives of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST), the Congregation of Christian Churches in Angola (CICA), the Evangelical Alliance, the Association of the Disabled of Angola (ANDA), Women Entrepreneurs, among others participated in the event.
