DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT “AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE”
Project
constantly increase in order to bring it in line with minimum living standards. The
effectiveness of social aid will be increased through the use of modern social technologies,
and along with the existing targeted state social aid system, active social aid programmes
(self-support, preferential social crediting) will be applied.
Mechanisms will be created to support incomplete, low-income families and families
who adopt orphan children, and appropriate measures will be taken to expand the system
of care. Rehabilitation centres will be created to prevent homelessness among those who
have not yet come of age and a community-based rehabilitation network in regions for
children with limited physical abilities will be expanded.
Appropriate projects will be prepared and implemented to prevent the isolation of
the disabled from society and to enable them to use the infrastructure without hindrance.
Also, in order to develop the skills and abilities of those persons and increase their
employment opportunities, the number of social and professional rehabilitation enterprises
will be increased. Disabled people will have wider opportunities to benefit from information
and communication technologies and obtain information through communication systems.
In order to improve the housing conditions of displaced persons, enhance the social
infrastructure in areas densely populated by them, increase employment, allocate
microcredits, support young displaced persons, provide professional training and other
measures, communities will be developed, education and health programmes will be
expanded, new buildings will be constructed for education and health institutions working
in decrepit buildings and provided with appropriate equipment. Great Repatriation (Great
Return) programmes will be prepared together with international financial organizations,
UN agencies, especially the UNHCR and other international humanitarian organizations
and the public will be constantly informed about it.
International cooperation in the sphere of improving the system of regulating labour
migration will continue and the business of dispatching citizens of the country to foreign
countries as labour migrants will be regulated in compliance with international experience.
At the same time, appropriate work will be carried out to create an efficient mechanism
regulating the use of social allowances by refugees from other countries, prevent the
illegal influx of foreign labour force into the country and strengthen the social security of
our citizens working abroad.
Necessary measures will be carried out to improve the system of preventing and
managing emergencies in order to ensure the population’s security in crisis situations,
automate management in this sphere and apply information technologies, carry out civil
defence, fire and rescue work at a high level, protect the population and territories from
natural and manmade emergencies and carry out educational work in emergencies.
26