PATH gets funding
Published:Monday | March 31, 2008 | 2:56 PM
$2.5 billion has been allocated for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.
The programme is aimed at providing more cost effective social benefits to the poor.
Over the next fiscal year, the government is hoping to begin bi-monthly payments to beneficiaries, starting with 215,000 persons.
A Beneficiary Identification System is also to be set up to select persons for benefits, as well as a Content Management System for storing data electronically.
Up to December 2007, PATH has provided payments close to 249,000 beneficiaries.
The Government and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development fund the programme.