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Alleviating Poverty (Agenda Item: 10)
108- Taking note with appreciation the convening of the 15th Meeting of the Poverty
Alleviation Working Group held virtually on September 29th, 2020 with the theme of
“Urban Poverty in the OIC Member Countries in the OIC Member Countries”,
welcomes its following policy recommendations:
 Developing comprehensive and effective urban planning strategies that
particularly focus on better management of slums to prevent uncontrolled
growth of existing slums and formation of new ones, and improving the access
of slum dwellers to basic services such as education and health services through
strategic investments.
 Designing effective local labor market policies that would help tackling the
informality problem and create more and better jobs.
 Activating the Islamic Social Finance Tools and systematically integrating them
into the general urban poverty policy toolbox.
 Improving urban governance capacity and strengthening resilience to shocks
(e.g. COVID-19 pandemic).
 Conceptualizing urban poverty and developing/improving data collection and
measurement practices to achieve evidence-based policymaking.
(Ref: Document Code OIC/COMCEC/..….)
109- Calls upon the Member States which have registered to the COMCEC Poverty
Alleviation Working Group to actively participate in the 16th Meeting of the Working
Group to be held with the theme of “COVID-19 and Its Adverse Effects on Socio-
Economic Inequalities in the OIC Member Countries”, in 2021 and also calls upon the
Member States, who have not done so yet, to register to the COMCEC Poverty
Alleviation Working Group.
110- Commends the efforts of the Benin, The Gambia, and Turkey for the following
projects to be implemented in 2021 under the seventh project call within the framework
of the COMCEC Project Funding:
- The Project titled “TVET Piloting in the Selected OIC Countries ” to be
implemented by Benin in partnership with The Gambia, Niger, and Turkey,
- The Project titled “Infusing Entrepreneurship Education in School Curricula”
to be implemented by The Gambia in partnership with Sierra Leone and
Nigeria,
- The Project titled “Strengthening Health Human Capacity and Creating
Intervention Task Force” to be implemented by Turkey in partnership with
Sudan, Somalia, and Niger.
i) Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD) and Special Program for
the Development of Africa (SPDA)