Global Monday, October 3, 2016
Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and UNICEF. Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children finds that in 2013 19.5 per cent of children in developing countries...
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Asia, Oman Wednesday, July 26, 2023
UNICEF welcomes the Sultanate of Oman’s launch of its comprehensive, integrated and progressive social protection system aligned with Oman Vision 2040, the 10th Five-Year Development Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals. The new law represents a...
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Asia, Lebanon Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA), in partnership with the European Union (EU), UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO), launched the country’s National Disability Allowance (NDA). The allowance is a social grant that will provide a...
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Asia, Palestinian Territory Monday, May 23, 2022
Making ends meet in the Gaza Strip, which has been under closure since 2007, is hard enough. But protracted conflict and violence create new setbacks in the lives of the Gaza Strip’s children. That’s why UNICEF and its partners, the Palestinian Ministry of...
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Africa, Ghana Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The Government of Ghana launched the LEAP 1000 pilot – a ‘cash plus’ programme – targeted at pregnant women and those with infants living in poor households in 2015. The motivation of the pilot was to support children during the first 1000 days, a key period...
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Asia, Myanmar Monday, May 9, 2022
Ma Nilar’s husband Ko San used to be able to support her and their three children with the income he earned as a motorbike taxi driver in Hlaing Thar Yar, the country’s most populous township in Yangon. But that was before the lockdowns caused by COVID-19 in...
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