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Invitation: M Plan for Social Justice
Start: 27/10/2018, 08:30
End: 27/10/2018, 15:15
Contact:Marna Lourens -
Location: Paul Roos Gimnasium, Suidwal, Stellenbosch


The M Plan for Social Justice expert roundtable is part of consultative processes aimed at the design and implementation of a comprehensive national plan similar to the post World War Europe Recovery Marshall Plan.

The Social Justice M-Plan (Mosa-Plan, for Social Justice) is a social justice accelerator programme that aims to catalyse the process of ending poverty and equalising life opportunities by 2030 as envisaged in the National Development Plan (NDP) read with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The  roundtable will be conducted workshop style with plenary sessions and parallel commissions on various social justice priorities such as Education, Health, Wellness and Nutrition, Poverty, ICT, Land, Property and Agriculture, and the Economy. A detailed agenda will follow in due course.

The project seeks to establish, among others, a social justice think tank to help the government accelerate progress towards socio-economic inclusion and related shared prosperity as part of anchoring democracy and the rule of law.  The key result areas of the Social Justice M-Plan are:

5 KEY RESULT AREAS

  1. Enhance state capacity to pass laws that reduce poverty and inequality through leveraging data analytics (Algorithms)
  2. Mobilize societal and corporate resources to contribute meaningfully to funding accelerated reduction of poverty and inequality
  3. Foster social accountability in government fiscal planning and expenditure by technology and leveraging people as eyes and ears of government
  4. Leverage international relations to promote support for the Social Justice M-Plan
  5. Sponsor a national drive to heal the divisions of the past regarding inherited social relations

 Please RSVP to socialjustice@sun.ac.za before 23 October 2018