Poverty Reduction Plan and Legislation
Whereas: Far too many Manitobans continue to live with inadequate incomes and face multiple barriers that prevent them from participating fully in community life.
Whereas: Basic needs for individuals, families, and communities including safe and affordable housing, sufficient healthy food, adequate income, access to child care, education, and health services are a pre-requisite for communities to create solutions to local challenges.
Whereas: A comprehensive and integrated approach must be taken to effectively address the multiple and inter-related causes of poverty and social exclusion.
Whereas: Outcome based targets and timelines on actions and indicators make governments accountable, provide an incentive to follow through with actions to reduce poverty and social exclusion and provide a basis from which progress can be measured.
Whereas: Poverty reduction and social inclusion legislation is essential to making poverty reduction and social inclusion a manifest commitment.
Whereas: The existing provincial poverty reduction strategy fails to adequately address the multiple and inter-related causes of poverty, to include outcome based targets and timelines, and to be accompanied by poverty reduction and social inclusion legislation.
Whereas: The Province of Manitoba is committed to significantly reducing poverty in Manitoba and the Premier has committed to the creation of anti-poverty legislation.
Whereas: In OurWinnipeg, the City of Winnipeg acknowledged its role in working with community partners to foster an inclusive and equitable community; and in working within its service areas as a collaborator on poverty reduction.
Whereas: A comprehensive poverty reduction plan with accompanying legislation will help achieve the objectives of community based poverty reduction and neighbourhood renewal efforts and will provide a framework within which various pieces of a CED policy agenda can come together.
Be It Resolved That:
CCEDNet Manitoba urge the Province of Manitoba to build upon the existing AllAboard poverty reduction strategy by making it more comprehensive, by identifying outcome based targets and timelines, and by adopting accompanying poverty reduction and social inclusion legislation.
Be it Further Resolved That:
CCEDNet Manitoba urge the City of Winnipeg to partner with others to develop and implement a comprehensive Winnipeg poverty reduction strategy with targets and timelines.
Be it Further Resolved That:
CCEDNet Manitoba urge municipalities in Manitoba to partner with others to develop and implement comprehensive poverty reduction strategies with targets and timelines.
