Sao Tome and Principe

Social safety net programs focus on a subset of the population, usually the poorest and most vulnerable. However, in most developing countries there is no administrative data on relative wealth of the population to support the selection process of the potential beneficiaries of the social safety net programs. Hence, selection into programs is often multi-methodological approached and starts with geographical targeting for the selection of program implementation areas.

São Tomé e Príncipe tem feito progresso significativo na área daproteção social, particularmente com a aprovação da Lei de Enquadramento daProteção Social em 2004, a aprovação do programa de alimentação escolar em 2010 e a relevância dada à proteção social na Segunda Estratégia Nacional de Redução da Pobreza do país 2012-2016 (ENRP II).

Slide presentation of the webinar held on 23 August 2018. About 250 million children under five years of age in low and middle-income countries are at risk of not attaining their developmental potential because of extreme poverty and stunting. The effects reach far beyond the individual lives of children and affect families, communities and the development of nations. In response, UNICEF’s ECD programmes support parents, caregivers and communities to help vulnerable children get a fair start in life.

This is WFP’s new global hunger monitoring system that tracks and predicts hunger in near real-time.

(COVID-19)

As of January 2022, a total of 3,856 social protection and labor measures were planned or implemented by 223 economies. This constitutes a net increase of 523 measures, or 15.6 percent since the last update in May 2021. While noteworthy, such increase is the lowest among net additions observed over previous semesters. In fact, the global pace of measures’ introduction over January 2020-January 2022 has been slowing down. This report focuses on the real-time review of country measures in terms of social protection and job responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19).