Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been sued for allegedly excluding elderly people from accessing Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE), and public health services among others due to lack of national identification cards. The government was sued together with National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA, by three Civil …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Gender, Labour and Social Development Committee has queried the inconsistent funding for the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE), saying that this impedes the effective running of the programme and the general welfare of the beneficiaries. The committee demanded that the Ministry of Finance provides …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An estimated 54,559 persons aged 80 years and above cannot access the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) because they do not have National Identification Cards, according to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. Data from the gender …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elderly persons in Kasese district have asked the government to consider reducing the eligibility age for Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment-SAGE beneficiaries to at least 65-70 years. In 2011, the government first piloted the programme in 15 districts, where older persons above 65 years were …
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Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday that booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines should be offered to moderately and severely immunocompromised people. After four days of talks last week, the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) recommended that such people …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament want the social assistance grant for the elderly to be increased to cater for their increasing needs. The legislators made this call following a statement by the Minister of State for Elderly Affairs, Dominic Gidudu Mafwabi on the International Day for the …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elders under the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) have passed on in Lira before receiving their stipend. Through SAGE, the government gives out a monthly stipend of 25,000 Shillings to persons aged above eighty in different parts of the country. Records from the Lira …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee have questioned the system being used to pay out funds to beneficiaries of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment programme. The MPs chaired by Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi were on Wednesday meeting officials from the Ministry …
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Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) provides for older persons 65 years and above a monthly stipend of 25,000 Shillings Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development Peace Mutuuzo says that elderly women have been recorded as the biggest recipients of the national …
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Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment-SAGE was rolled out by gov’t to address the problems affecting the elders Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Disability and Elderly Sarah Kanyike has said that they intend to raise the monthly payment for older persons under the Social Assistance Grant for …
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