On August 26, 2024, a mentoring program for women entrepreneurs will be launched in Belarus. Over the course of four months, mentors will share experiences, solve problems, form new directions for developing their business, acquire new skills and identify points for professional growth. The entrepreneurs will also undergo training developed to their needs.
Women entrepreneurs are invited to participate in the program: owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses, self-employed individuals from the Vitebsk, Mogilev and Gomel regions.
Applications for participation in the mentoring program are accepted until August 25, 2024. In total, 45 entrepreneurs will participate – 15 mentors and 30 mentees.
To familiarize potential participants with the program, meetings will be organized in Vitebsk (August 20), Mogilev (August 22) and Gomel (August 23).
The mentoring program is being implemented by “ASB Consult” as part of the initiative of the United Nations Development Program in Belarus to promote sustainable socio-economic development in partnership with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus.
More detailed information about the mentoring program for women entrepreneurs can be found via the link.
The implementation of the mentoring program for women entrepreneurs will contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 5, 8 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
In Belarus, much attention is paid to unimpeded access of citizens, including people with disabilities, to social infrastructure facilities. The share of accessibility of social facilities today is 19.6%. There are 22 thousand objects in the country that are fully accessible to all categories of people with disabilities. By the end of 2025, it is planned to develop another 8 thousand social facilities, which will increase the accessibility percentage to 23.4%.
The development of an automated information system for recording the availability of social infrastructure facilities is undergo. In 2024, it is planned to complete the formation of an electronic database of available social infrastructure facilities, the information from which will be reflected on the public cadastral Internet map. This map will become a virtual guide around the city for people with disabilities. It is planned that the automated information system will be launched on January 1, 2025.
Improving social integration and social mobility of people with disabilities contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 10, 11 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus is holding a public discussion of the draft Law of the Republic of Belarus “On Amendments to the Laws of the Republic of Belarus”.
The draft Law is aimed at improving the legal regulation of relations in the field of protection and use of water, taking into account the practice of applying the Water Code of the Republic of Belarus. The draft Law also introduces amendments to the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On State Environmental Expertise, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment” and the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Architectural, Urban Planning and Construction Activities.
Comments and suggestions can be expressed in a special topic on the Legal Forum of Belarus or sent to the email address mail@minpriroda.gov.by before August 18, 2024.
Updating the provisions of the Water Code of the Republic of Belarus, the Code of the Republic of Belarus on architectural, urban planning and construction activities and the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On State Environmental Expertise, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment” will contribute to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of the Sustainable Development Goals 11, 13, 14, 15 and the other SDGs.
On August 3, 2024, new modular feldsher-obstetric stationswere put into operation in the villages of Mostishche and Ostashino, Novogrudok district.
The feldsher-obstetric stations are equipped with all the necessary equipment for examining patients, providing emergency pre-hospital (including emergency) and obstetric care. Their responsibilities also include receiving people at home, patronizing children under 3 years of age, providing medical care to preschool institutions that do not have medical workers on their staff, conducting sanitary and anti-epidemic work, etc.
The installation of modular FESs became the optimal solution that helped create modern conditions for medical care for rural residents. Since the beginning of 2024, three modular feldsher-obstetric stations have already been opened in the Novogrudok district: in January – in the village of Yatra, in April – in the agro-town of Volkovichi, in June – in the village of Delyatichi.
The functioning of feldsher-obstetricstations makes medical care more accessible and makes an important contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 3, 11 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
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On August 6, 2024, a press conference “Important aspects in the state’s social policy: innovations in legislation on social support for disabled people” was held in Minsk.
During the press event, representatives of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus discussed innovations in the legislation on social support for people with disabilities, the effectiveness of existing laws, measures taken to root an inclusive environment in the Republic of Belarus, the specifics of regulating the work of people with disabilities, the involvement of people with disabilities in the life of society, measures implemented to support families and other issues.
Today, 6% of the total population of Belarus live with disabilities. Guarantees for the formation of an inclusive environment, ensuring equal rights for people with disabilities to participate in the life of society, health care, education, free choice of employment, as well as ensuring equality and non-discrimination on the basis of disability are enshrined in the Law “On the Rights of Disabled Persons and Their Social Integration”. This Law integrates the provisions of the laws “On the Social Protection of Disabled Persons in the Republic of Belarus” and “On the Prevention of Disability and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons”, as well as the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In addition, the provisions of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated December 13, 2023 No. 318-Z “On Amendments to Laws on Social Services and Social Payments” has been implemented in Belarus since July 2024. The law approved new principles of social services for elderly citizens and people with disabilities, aimed at creating conditions for the longest possible residence of recipients of social services at their place of residence by organizing their social services taking into account the degree of loss of health, equipment of living space and the availability of a social environment.
The recording of the press conference “Important aspects in the state’s social policy: innovations in legislation on social support for disabled people” is available at the link.
Ensuring equal rights and opportunities for all citizens makes an important contribution to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Youth Ambassadors of the Sustainable Development Goals of the III and IV convocations prepared the Youth Dictionary of Terms on the Theme of Sustainable Development. All information in the publication is presented in Russian and English.
The Dictionary is aimed at students of higher education institutions, students of secondary, secondary specialized and vocational technical education institutions, and can also be used within the framework of the projects: “Sustainable University”, “Sustainable Summer”, “Youth Ambassadors of the SDGs – the future of our planet”, etc. In preparing the publication, the achievements of the Republic of Belarus in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as the strategic and national interests of the country, were taken into account.
The Youth Dictionary of Terms on Sustainable Development was developed with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the Institute of Inclusive Education of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank, the Republican Youth Center, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) within the framework of the Joint Project “Support to the Efforts of the Republic of Belarus in Nationalization and Localization of SDGs”, funded by the Government of the Russian Federation.
In order to deepen students’ knowledge of the world around them and to develop their interest in studying natural sciences, the optional curriculum “Discovery Laboratory” was approved by the Resolution of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus dated July 26, 2024 No. 95.
The curriculum will last for 34 hours and is intended for the first or second grades of educational institutions implementing general secondary education programs. Physics teachers may be involved in conducting classes. The forms and methods of education will be selected in accordance with age.
During the classes, students will become familiar with the elements of the science “Physics”, learn to analyze and understand the physical nature of the surrounding phenomena. Having mastered the content of the educational material, schoolchildren will be able to conduct observations and simple experiments, put forward hypotheses and predict results, and will also be able to take part in research work, distribute roles, negotiate, discuss the process and results of joint work.
The implementation of the optional curriculum “Discovery Laboratory” will contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus has prepared the manual for compiling a list of state programs for 2026-2030.
The manual contains information on which regulatory legal acts govern the process of compiling the list, which state programs can be included, and who forms and makes proposals for their inclusion in the list. The document also contains the stages and deadlines for compiling the list, the structure for drafting a proposal for inclusion of the state program, and indicates how the proposal should reflect the compliance of the state program objectives with the Sustainable Development Goals and the provisions of the National Sustainable Development Strategy of the Republic of Belarus until 2040.
Thus, the following state programs may be included in the list for 2026–2030:
Proposals for the inclusion of state programs in the list for 2026-2030 will be submitted to the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus by October 25, 2024. The Draft list of state programs will be submitted for consideration by December 1, 2024.
The development and implementation of state programs contributes to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
On July 23, 2024, the Code on Architectural, Urban Planning and Construction came into force in Belarus, summarizing almost all fundamental acts regulating the procedure for the construction of facilities at all stages, from the idea to acceptance into operation.
The Code includes all current principles and norms previously found in decrees and regulations in the field of architectural and construction activities, as well as a number of innovations. The main innovation of the Code is the simplification of requirements for architectural, urban planning and construction activities. In particular, approaches to the acceptance of facilities into operation and work with long-term construction projects were changed, responsibilities were redistributed, requirements for obtaining permits for construction and performing current repairs were simplified, a simplified procedure for suspending construction and mothballing was defined, as well as conditions for the construction and reconstruction of individual residential buildings and non-residential capital buildings of the fifth complexity class were determined.
The Code also includes a number of information resources for financial construction in the Republic of Belarus – the geoinformation system “Gosstroyportal”, the information system “Unified Register of Capital Construction Projects”, and the State Urban Development Cadaster.
The implementation of the provisions of the Code on Architectural, Urban Planning and Construction will contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 9, 11 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
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