GMT +1:00 Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 14:00
Covid-19 and related restrictions will reportedly set back decades of progress fighting poverty, hitting the most vulnerable in society the hardest. Some estimate the pandemic will push as many as 115 million more people into extreme poverty in 2021 alone...
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GMT+1/CET Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 14:00
An unprecedented number of social protection measures have been announced since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Policy adjustments and innovations under way include efforts to address social protection gaps and expand support in the immediate instance. They...
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GMT Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 13:00
The pledge to ‘leave no one behind’ is a fundamental principle underlying Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Its emphasis on prioritising the welfare of the most disadvantaged groups and reducing group-based inequalities has the capacity to...
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GMT +1 Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 13:00
Governments worldwide are relying on cash and tax transfers to households with children in response to the Covid-19 crisis, amid growing calls to strengthen and expand cash transfers and social protection. A recent UN SDG report states: 'It is particularly...
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GTM +1 Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 14:00
Covid-19 has gripped the world, shaken the multilateral system and caused widespread uncertainty. One thing remains clear, there is no going back and adaptations will need to be made to shift towards a new normal. The key to this will be developing new forms...
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GMT+1 Monday, June 15, 2020 - 12:00
The spread of the Covid-19 virus is testing the health and economic systems of individual countries and the world as a whole. The standard response ‘toolkit’ initially focussed primarily on containing the spread of the virus, with some adjustment of economic...
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