Gwangju City Community Security Plan Recognized as 'Excellent'... Ministry of Health and Welfare Institutional Commendation

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 18th that it received the Excellence Award in the evaluation of the implementation results of the Community Social Security Plan conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, earning an institutional commendation and a prize of 10 million won.

The Community Social Security Plan is a mid- to long-term plan established every four years concerning community social security, designed to suit local government conditions by considering the welfare needs and resources of local residents.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducts a comprehensive evaluation of local governments nationwide on whether they establish differentiated community social security plans tailored to local conditions, implement them, and contribute to regional development, announcing outstanding institutions annually.

This Excellence Award for Gwangju is the first since the Ministry of Health and Welfare began evaluating the implementation results of the Community Social Security Plan in 2015.

Gwangju was highly evaluated for ▲being the first nationwide to enact the Welfare Governance Ordinance and reflecting opinions from various social welfare sectors into policies through the formation and operation of the public-private consultative body, the Welfare Governance Committee ▲establishing a welfare innovation promotion plan to build a ‘Gwangju-type’ welfare model, creating a dedicated promotion department called the ‘Welfare Innovation Team,’ and setting up a promotion system including a public-private execution consultative body ▲and promoting childbirth policies such as ‘Gwangju, a good city to give birth and raise children,’ which reflects the needs of local residents.

Ryu Mi-su, head of the Social Welfare Division of the city, said, “By solidly promoting the Community Social Security Plan through Gwangju’s unique public-private cooperation model, we have raised the qualitative level of social security one step higher,” and added, “We will continue to carry out various welfare projects that residents can feel through welfare governance.”

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