ADB JAPAN DIRECTOR MEETS STATE SECRETARY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Country-director of Japan for the Board of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Kazuhiko Koguchi held a meeting Thursday with the state secretary of the Ministry of human development and social welfare of Mongolia B.Otgonjargal. They discussed a cooperation between the ADB, the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) and the Ministry. The Japanese government has been cooperating with many countries on poverty reduction through setting up assets to the ADB. Through the financing from the fund, many projects and programmes on solving problems of Mongolian society have been running successfully, some of them have shown results, for example, a programme on promotion of employment of the disabled. The State secretary said she is grateful for the fruitful realization of programmes targeted at vulnerable strata and the disabled, implemented jointly with the JFPR, and added that the Ministry is responsible for a policy for these people. “Therefore, we are working to strengthen a legal environment for protection of rights of the disabled to involve them in social life and to inspire them with a faith in life,” she said. She also expressed a willingness to cooperate with the ADB and the JFPR on establishing a center for the disabled and to collaborate in training the staff for the center. She thanked the guest for USD 1.5 million fund from the JFPR for the renovation of health insurance services of Mongolia and promised to support the works for providing health services for those who lack possibilities of getting medical help.