Thursday, March 7, 2024
The Waai (meaning “awareness” in Arabic) Program is a behavioral awareness and change platform launched in 2020 and a key intervention of the Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program (TKP). It aims to reach Egypt’s vulnerable citizens on 12 interlinked...
Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a $75.9 million loan to improve living conditions in households in the areas of Honduras with the highest rates of extreme poverty, and to cultivate human capital and self-management capacity in those...
Friday, August 12, 2022
The Federal Government said the introduction of digitalized cash transfer payment will help in addressing some lapses while operating the analog payment system.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar...
Thursday, March 24, 2022
O Brasil precisa investir em políticas de proteção social perenes e de longo prazo para efetivamente reduzir, de maneira sustentável, a pobreza infantil. O estudo “Pobreza Infantil Monetária no Brasil – Impactos da pandemia na renda de famílias com...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Brasília. Agosto de 2021. O governo entrega ao Congresso a medida provisória do Auxílio Brasil. O ministro da Cidadania, João Roma (Republicanos), diz que o programa é uma evolução do Bolsa Família. Integrando políticas públicas de assistência social,...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psychologist Fenna Poletiek, social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet and cognitive psychologist Bastiaan...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
he Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $603 million results-based lending program to strengthen and expand social protection programs in Pakistan. Using conditional cash transfers, the program will support the implementation of Ehsaas,...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
During 1994-1998, the state government of Haryana ran a conditional cash transfer programme to address the issue of child marriage: at the time of a daughter’s birth, parents from marginalised sections of society were promised a lumpsum cash transfer if...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Innocent Tshilombo, who spent 10 years at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, describes how attaching conditions to cash and voucher assistance can seriously impact its effectiveness.
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Monday, August 30, 2021
Food subsidies are central to Egypt’s social protection efforts. About 70 million people benefit from the Tamween ration-card system, and 83 million benefit from subsidized baladi bread, a staple for many Egyptians. Together these two programs account...