As we have done over the last two years, AWARE is organising a forum on the Annual Singapore Budget. The Government’s public consultation on Budget 2014 runs from 22 November 2013 to 29 January 2014. To contribute to this public consultation, AWARE invites you to a discussion about our concerns on issues that we feel strongly about.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Saturday, 18 January 2014

Time: 2pm-5pm

Venue: AWARE Centre Block 5 Dover Crescent #01-22 S’pore (130005)

Panel of speakers include: Donald Low, Associate Dean (Executive Education and Research) and Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Dr Vivienne Wee, Research and Advocacy Director, AWARE Singapore.

Commentators are Dr Kanwaljit Soin, Founding President, Women’s Initiative for Ageing Successfully (WINGS), and Yeoh Lam Keong, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies.

Abstract

Over the last two years AWARE has made recommendations to the Minister of Finance as part of the public consultations for Budget 2011 and Budget 2012.

This year, building on our past advocacy efforts, AWARE is advocating for a care economy that will focus on:

a. Comprehensive healthcare

b. Adequate support for care giving

c. Reducing income inequality and poverty

d. Increasing support for marginalized groups, such as the elderly, disabled and single, unwed mothers

At this forum, we will be presenting our recommendations for Budget 2014. Please come to express your views so that they may be incorporated into our recommendations.

You can register for the event here.

If you have registered and would like to receive our draft recommendations before the forum on Jan 18, please email Moana Jagasia at moana@aware.org.sg.

Also, do view the recommendations we made in 2011, 2012 and 2013.