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AUSTERITY measures and associated policies being implemented by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube<\/a> are plunging women and children into deep poverty due to lack of adequate social safety nets a an activist has said.<\/p>\n

Naome Chakanya said this in an interview with\u00a0 on the sidelines of the Women\u2019s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) economic rights indaba.<\/p>\n

She accused Ncube of putting in place policies without getting input from the country\u2019s biggest gender group and argued these have increased the burden on women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis month we commemorate the first anniversary since October 2018 when economic policies which are bedeviling women were effected. Information at hand shows that before the policies came into effect, inflation was at 5.6 % but just a year later it has surged to over 175%.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat boggles the mind is that women tend to carry the worst part of these effects especially in times like these when government has cut down on social expenditure,\u201d said Chikanya.<\/p>\n

She bemoaned the fact in the 2018 budget allocations, vulnerable households received an equivalent of US$71 over a period of one year amounting to US$6 per household monthly, a figure which increased from US$3 which was paid in the previous year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso the government run, Basic Education Assistance Module allocated US$48 per child over a 12 months period while US$6 per child a month went towards welfare support.<\/p>\n

\u201cBEAM is only providing support for 416 000 vulnerable and orphaned learners (US$20 million) against registered claimants of around 1.1 million,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Chakanya added that the adverse effects of the policies are felt on the accelerated erosion of women\u2019s Informal Savings and Lending Schemes, locally referred to as \u201cmikando\u201d or Savings and Credit Cooperatives which had effectively served as informal social protection schemes for most women.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment is therefore externalising the cost of care on to women who continuously face increased care burden on their shoulders and what is more worrying is that despite constituting 52% coupled with extra chores of looking after vulnerable children, there has never been an attempt to get our input,\u201d said Chikanya.<\/p>\n

It was also observed that since October 2018 rising inflation has had an impact on National Social Security Authority\u2019s pension payouts through which beneficiaries are currently receiving minimum payouts of $80 per month (about US$5 at 1:16 parallel market rate), while the surviving beneficiaries are receiving a minimum of $32 (about US$2 at 1:16 parallel market rate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AUSTERITY measures and associated policies being implemented by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube are plunging women and children into deep poverty due to lack of adequate social safety nets a an activist has said. Naome Chakanya said this in an interview with\u00a0 on the sidelines of the Women\u2019s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) economic rights indaba. 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