Paraguay
The Senate Will Consider the Bill Creating Paraguay’s National Care System
The initiative, which has already passed the lower house, is on the agenda for the session scheduled for Wednesday, September 23. Topics related to the agrarian regime, security and the protection of critical infrastructure will also be debated.
The Chamber of Senators included on the agenda for its session this Wednesday, September 23, the bill that creates Paraguay’s National Care System, according to La Nación Paraguay.
The proposal, identified as SINACUP, already has half approval from the Chamber of Deputies. According to what was published by that outlet, it aims to redistribute care and assistance tasks for children, adolescents, older adults, people with disabilities and people in situations of dependency among the state, families, the community and the private sector.
According to the sponsors, the initiative falls within the current Social Protection System and also responds to commitments undertaken by Paraguay in regional forums on women’s rights, in addition to constitutional mandates on the protection of the family, children, old age and people with disabilities.
Still according to La Nación Paraguay, the scheme provides for a National Care Council, chaired by the Ministry of Women and made up of a dozen ministries and public agencies, together with an Executive Care Secretariat and an Advisory Committee with participation from social organizations, academia and private providers.
Among the bill’s pillars are care services, labor leave and permissions to reconcile work and family responsibilities, subsidies and cash benefits, training and professionalization of caregivers, regulation of quality standards and communication campaigns to promote gender co-responsibility.
Funding would come from the General Budget of the Nation and from departmental, municipal and private contributions, with the creation of a Special Care Fund. Implementation, the outlet added, would be gradual: the Council should be established within 60 days after enactment and draw up the first Care Plan within the following 180 days.
The session agenda also includes other bills related to the agrarian regime, security, the protection of critical infrastructure, requests for honorary pensions and declaration initiatives.
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About this note. Written by El Notero with assistance from artificial intelligence, based on what was published by the cited outlet. El Notero did not do its own reporting on this event.
