End of mission statement Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston on his visit to Saudi Arabia
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Many Saudis are convinced that their country is free of poverty. I was often told that there are no homeless and no hungry people, and that the innate spirit of generosity within the society ensures that there is no poverty. And until very recently, the word ‘poverty’ was carefully avoided by policy-makers and commentators. They talked instead about vulnerable or needy persons. Things should have started to change after a ground-breaking visit in 2002 to poor areas in Riyadh by the then Crown Prince Abdullah. That led to the preparation of a National Poverty Reduction Strategy in 2005, but it has never been made public. In 2006 a Supplementary Support Programme was initiated to assist the poor. Since that time, Government programs have proliferated and charitable organizations working in the poverty sector have flourished.
But the result is a veritable hodgepodge of programs which is inefficient, unsustainable, poorly coordinated and, above all, unsuccessful in providing comprehensive social protection to those most in need2. The system is based on monthly and one-time cash transfers under the Complementary Support Program.
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