SEND Ghana has urged the Government to increase the grant paid to beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) to a little above the daily poverty threshold of GHC 2.09, and also ensure its timely payment.
It also asked the Government to make adequate provisions for the social protection expenditure, which would be captured in the 2020 Budget Statement to be presented to Parliament on Wednesday, November 13.
At a media conference in Accra, Dr Emmanuel Ayifah, Deputy Country Director, SEND Ghana stated: "SEND wishes to remind government, as it presents the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to make adequate provision for social protection expenditure and ensure that such budgetary allocations are fully and timely disburse".
