The programme brief description
The UN Joint Programme is guided by a conviction that poverty and climate change vulnerability of Mongolia’s left-behind population – herders and their children – can be effectively addressed. The programme thus seeks to support national authorities and provincial governments in closing the social protection gaps for this population, with a particular emphasis on reducing vulnerabilities to poverty and extreme climate change. Founded in a rights-based approach, the UNJP combines the investment in system development with a practical intervention directly focused on eradicating poverty and protecting herders and their family members from falling into the poverty trap.
Approach
With these objectives in mind, three main areas of intervention were agreed with the Government: i) extension of coverage of herders by identifying innovative and unconventional solutions to enroll herders in social protection schemes; ii) introducing a shock responsive element into the social protection system to ensure herder families and children are increasingly protected from climate related shocks, and, iii) designing and/or mobilizing the budget structure to ensure funding availability and financial sustainability to cater for the modalities proposed. The latter will also indirectly support the Government’s effort to make the public financing system SDG oriented and the possibility of investing in the long-term strategic priorities.
Target groups
Women, children, girls, youth, persons with disabilities, older persons, rural workers, herders.