{"id":211926,"date":"2025-10-30T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-aligns-policies-for-economic-inclusion\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:15:50","slug":"botswana-government-aligns-policies-for-economic-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-aligns-policies-for-economic-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Government Aligns Policies for Economic Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Gaborone \u2014 Efforts are under way to implement a unified social protection policy framework designed to align with all related policies under one coherent umbrella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Presenting the Social Protection Chapter of the draft National Development Plan 12 (NDP 12), the Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa said some of the policies that would be looked at include the Disability Policy, Revised Gender and Development Policy, Child Protection Policy, Rural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510300344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Efforts are under way to implement a unified social protection policy framework designed to align with all related policies under one coherent umbrella. Presenting the Social Protection Chapter of the draft National Development Plan 12 (NDP 12), the Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa said some of the policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,36199,4718,2462,3576,6427,14204,257,7694,254],"class_list":["post-211926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aligns","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-economic","tag-government","tag-inclusion","tag-news","tag-policies","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}