MINISTER S.CHINZORIG REQUESTS TO EXPAND SCOPE OF SDC PROJECTS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Labor and Social Protection S.Chinzorig met Wednesday Ilaria Dali, Deputy Director for the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) in Mongolia. The SDC is one of the biggest donor organizations which implements projects, programs supporting Mongolian government policy and actions on labor and social protection and grants financial and methodical assistance. Minister S.Chinzorig pledged to support the projects ‘Youth development’ and ‘Supporting youth employment’ which are being implemented by the SDC with aim to supporting business and other initiatives in directions of increasing jobs for youths , improving their leadership skills and supporting employment. He stressed the rate of domestic violence especially against girls is increasing recently and the project ‘Combating gender-based violence’ by the SDC has significant importance to tackle this issue. Moreover the Minister requested to expand the scope of the projects and extend thier implementation period, if possible. In response Ms.Ilaria Dali pledged to study the possibilites and said that the SDC and Mongolian Government are working for formulation of the third stage strategy on development cooperation. B.Batchimeg