Los niños de la urbanización “Alegría La Dolorosa”, de la Misión Casa Para Todos, ubicada en el cantón Antonio Ante; provincia de Imbabura, reciben clases de educación inicial I y II que son impartidas por profesoras del Ministerio...

OPINION: Cash transfers to the poor gained respectability worldwide as a way of reducing poverty when programmes, in recent decades, targeted the extreme poor and made transfers conditional on beneficiaries meeting education and...

The European Union has announced a further €8 million in funding for an innovative ‘mobile money’ scheme that has already helped over 300,000 vulnerable people in Somalia. Established in 2017, the Somali Cash Consortium uses mobile...

BLOG: There is no more urgent and fundamental problem in development than finding effective ways to help the ultra-poor improve their economic and social condition. But most interventions don’t reach the poorest of the poor. In fact...

OPINION: On paper, the Philippines and other Member States of  the Association of  Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are all committed  to the protection of their citizens against social and  economic risks.  However, the adequacy of...

Representative survey results have shown a stable approval rate for implementing unconditional basic income of between 45 and 52 percent in Germany since 2016/17. In European comparison, this approval rate is low. Younger, better...

Our social systems are becoming increasingly mismatched with the new world of work. Be it workers who are self-employed or hired on fixed-term contracts, those deviating from the traditional pattern of full-time, permanent...

OPINION: India, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, has a social protection system that may be outdated. Its social protection was founded in the 1970s, when half of the population was chronically poor, and most of...

BLOG: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally, with one in three women physically or sexually abused by a partner in her lifetime (Devries et al. 2013). IPV has multiple malign consequences for the physical and...

The Kazakh Government has provided social assistance for 282,000 people totaling 9.3 billion tenge (US$24.44 million) this year and plans to spend another 83 billion tenge (US$218.12 million) to assist 821,000 more people by year’s...

As WFP faces a shortage of resources in Iraq, this timely donation from Japan will help address the food insecurity of internally displaced families and enhance the resilience of returnees and local communities. “Japan has provided...

 Le directeur général de la Caisse de sécurité sociale (Css), Assane Soumaré ,a invité ,mardi, les entreprises à internationaliser ou intégrer la prévention des risques professionnels dans leurs politiques.