develop_region:
Middle East & North Africa
iso2:
LY
iso3:
LBY
Continent:
Africa
Official name:
Libya
Countries in the Arab region host a large share of the global migrant worker population. Estimating the exact size of this population is an arduous task, given the increasing complexity of migration flows and the high prevalence of refugees and workers with an irregular immigration status.
This second edition of the Annual Digest of Social Protection Reforms in the Arab Countries serves as a comprehensive – albeit not exhaustive – record of the remarkable efforts made by the region’s governments throughout the year 2023. In this context it is encouraging to observe that while the overall number of recorded reforms is nearly unchanged, 2023 was marked by a larger share of comprehensive structural reforms compared to 2022.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces multiple crises, including armed conflicts, economic instability, and public service breakdowns. These crises have resulted in around 70 million people, including 27 million children, in need of humanitarian aid,1 with countries like Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT), Lebanon and Türkiye being particularly affected. There is a pressing need to invest in connecting humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) with social protection (SP) programmes.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces multiple crises, including armed conflicts, economic instability, and public service breakdowns. These crises have resulted in around 70 million people, including 27 million children, in need of humanitarian aid, with countries like Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT), Lebanon and Türkiye being particularly affected. There is a pressing need to invest in connecting humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) with social protection (SP) programmes.
This document intends to pave the way for transitional programming that would gradually lead to disengagement of humanitarian cash assistance in the Libyan context for Libyan households. Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) as well as sectoral cash assistance can represent the entry point for generating linkages with existing social protection schemes and in the mid-term, for hand-over of assistance for humanitarian population of concern to governmental-led assistance.
