Ciudad Mujer: IDB will finance with US $ 20 MM social project

Tony Peña Guaba, coordinator of the Social Policies Cabinet, has ambitious plans to improve the living conditions of Dominicans. Ciudad Mujer, one of the projects created by former Vice President Margarita Cedeño in 2018, which aims to include a variety of services for this human segment, will be continued by the Cabinet.

Peña Guaba said that this program will have an investment of 20 million dollars and will be financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

He said, we are talking that we will be making an investment of 800 million pesos in each city of these.

The official explained, during the Listín Diario Breakfast, that initially two cities will be built, one in Santo Domingo Norte and the other in Santiago. He assured that the sites where these cities will be built are already insured, and announced that the award of these works will be carried out in the coming days.

He said, for a matter of speed and can be done by this new Government, we decided in the next few days to award the people who win this award.

He explained that this project will have a specialization on women's issues.

He said,with the issues that exist in the country, work will be done together with the judicial protection sector; it will have foster homes and a hospital. This project is going to have a number of things, It is something quite beautiful and we are going to make the award soon. Now we had a fairly long meeting with the World Bank, with UNDP (the United Nations Development Program), with different offices of the Dominican State; we are making different types of agreements to improve the quality of life of the poor.

He said that something very important will happen next week, although he did not specify the details, claiming that the announcement should be made by President Abinader. It is something that is going to give, especially to this social protection, a different framework; I reserve what we are going to say so as not to take the news from the President, but it is something we are doing.

Another of the projects being developed by the Cabinet of Social Policies is Citizen Culture, an initiative carried out in conjunction with Progresando con Solidaridad (Prosoli,) that seeks to give a cultural identity to the country.