Lundi, 30 Septembre 2024
Humanitarian programmes are largely conceived and designed within the confines of one country’s borders. This remains true in Sudan’s escalating humanitarian crisis – even though it impacts at least five neighbouring countries. Cash and voucher...
Mercredi, 25 Septembre 2024
This blog explores the regional dynamics of the Sudan crisis and cash and voucher assistance in the different countries affected by the crisis. It examines the potential advantages of collaboration between Cash Working Groups across borders and how this...
Mardi, 9 Juin 2024
A pension system is at the heart of social protection. By ensuring income security for older persons and other vulnerable groups, it prevents poverty, reduces inequality, and smooths consumption. A pension system also affects the working population’s...
Mardi, 9 Juin 2024
Yemen’s social protection system is failing to support its population adequately. Years of conflict have left millions vulnerable, struggling with poverty, hunger, and displacement. This is due to two main issues: a fragmented structure lacking a central...
Vendredi, 5 Juin 2024
Conflicts undermine the ability of states to provide social protection and other social services. Yemen is no exception. The war caused a cumulative economic contraction of about 50% over the period 2014-2020 and reduced the annual GDP growth rate to...
Jeudi, 4 Juin 2024
Every country in the Pacific, as well as Timor-Leste, has some level of formal social protection system. Yet, these systems are poorly understood globally, and are often, perhaps unfairly, judged as being nascent. That is the context for recent research...
Mercredi, 3 Juin 2024
One of the first humanitarian responses to the current Gaza crisis involved cash assistance. Since its implementation, skepticism has loomed over its usage. Concerns about market depletion, telecommunication and electricity cuts, financial service...
Lundi, 1 Juin 2024
Around the world, emergencies are becoming more complex and protracted. To address them effectively, we need to strengthen the connection between humanitarian action, development efforts, and peacebuilding. This is what the humanitarian-development-peace...
Mercredi, 5 juin 2024
Globally, the last five years have tested the resolve of societies as they are confronted with a myriad of unprecedented health, economic, climactic, and social challenges. In developing countries like Belize, those crises have demonstrated that...
Mercredi, 5 juin 2024
With support from the World Bank and USAID, UNICEF distributed cash to 86,000 families with at least one girl between 12 and 17 years old. Each family received three separate tranches of payment of $120.00 to cover opportunity costs related to education...
