Samedi, 13 Novembre 2021
With the Covid-19 crisis, the urban informal workers, largely invisibilized by modern urban development, were visible at least on mainstream news, and social media. Those heart wrenching images and news, and the subsequent mobilisation of civil society...
Mardi, 12 Octobre 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
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Mercredi, 29 Septembre 2021
Throughout the pandemic, social protection practitioners have been drawing on past experience and established ‘mantras’ to support governments and emergency actors to respond to the crisis. Valentina Barca, the Team Lead for the FCDO-GIZ-DFAT-funded...
Samedi, 25 Septembre 2021
Egypt has recently increased charity work across the country as part of efforts to support the government’s social protection programs. In cooperation between the Egyptian government and 18 charitable institutions and associations, Egyptian President...
Mardi, 24 Août 2021
The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020, according to the Urban Institute, a think tank that closely tracks this rate with a widely used model. There were 29.3 million Americans living below the poverty line, the...
Jeudi, 19 Août 2021
The World Bank forecasted in January 2021 that the COVID-19 crisis will result in an additional 10.9 million Nigerians entering extreme poverty, living on less than a dollar a day, by 2022. Prior to the pandemic, about 90 million Nigerians, more than 40...
Mardi, 10 Août 2021
As a disaster-prone country, Indonesia needs a social protection system that is adaptive and responsive to disasters. Adaptive Social Protection aims to bring together the concepts of social protection, disaster management, and climate change adaptation...
Lundi, 5 Juin 2021
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A look at government spending worldwide on social protection from March 2020 to mid-May 2021 reveals that the...
Mercredi, 30 juin 2021
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This blog is part of a Better Assistance in Crises Research programme series exploring the implications of...
Lundi, 21 juin 2021
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India’s national lockdown in 2020, imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19, threw millions of people out of...