The European Commission is to push for minimum standards on social protection across member states to show citizens that the EU is not just an "economic" project.

Malawi and the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Tuesday officially signed a financial agreement of $29million as a sector budget support for the protection of basic social services.
Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe said the funds are part of...

15 de junio, 2015 — Los presidentes de México y de Colombia llamaron a establecer redes de protección social, a impulsar el desarrollo rural y a asegurar la paz para erradicar el hambre en América Latina.

The new Nigerian government is planning to implement a national social protection scheme for unemployed Youths to reduce effects of poverty which has impacted significant percentage of the population. It is expected that the social protection program...

An agreement to that end was signed in Paris by the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, and the president of French Polynesia, Edouard Fritch. The 13 million US dollar transfer will be made for each of the next three budgets.

30 June 2015 – Now it is time for universal social protection to ensure no one is left behind, the heads of the International Labour Organization and the World Bank declared today, noting that universal primary education became a Millennium...

WASHINGTON, May 27, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved continuing support to Ghana as the West African nation seeks to further reduce poverty and expand social opportunities for the poorest people...

Ghana has sealed a $5 million Child Protection Compact with the US. This is the first time the US is signing this kind of compact with any country.

The government-appointed Pensions Strategy Group has published a document entitled ‘Strengthening the pension system’, which aims to provide a strategy for adequate and sustainable pensions in Malta.

Windhoek- Despite being a smaller economy by global standards, Namibia is one of the few countries in Africa that have successfully implemented a wide variety of social protection programmes that provide social and economic support to its vulnerable...

10 July 2015 – According to a new joint United Nations agency report, an additional $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty would end chronic hunger – and additional investments of an estimated $267 billion annually in social...

Starting on July 1, 2015, the Government of Indonesia introduced a new public pension scheme and some modifications of the regulation governing the public provident fund.

Under the previous regulation, workers had the possibility to withdraw...