The Saudi-UAE military alliance fighting in Yemen says it will open humanitarian corridors between two rebel-held areas, the Red Sea city of Hodeidah and the capital Sanaa, to allow life-saving aid to be delivered to millions of...

ACTED is building the resilience of households like Ruqiya’s against disasters through a Cash for Work (CfW) programme. The EU-funded project aims at empowering vulnerable households in Somalia to recover from effects of drought. Through the...

The Turkish Employment Organization (IŞKUR)'s unemployment insurance fund paid out 2.9 billion Turkish lira ($600 million) to Turkey's unemployed population during the first eight months of 2018. The fund, introduced in March 2002,...

A large portion of the increase can be attributed to the increased subsidisation of bus services. Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson (Centre) said that greater support for public transport services will...

The World Bank (WB) announced Saturday a $300 million loan to Egypt for complementing the current ‘’Sustainable Rural Sanitation Services Program’’ to support the expansion of the government’s efforts to improve rural sanitation...

As part of the early recovery and rehabilitation for Typhoon Ompong victims, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Field Office (FO) in Region I, is set to grant P20 million to Ilocos Norte for a cash-for-work (CFW)...

Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson (Centre) said that greater support for public...

Lebanese caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said the ministry aims to address the housing loans crisis in the country through subsidies, an independent online newspaper reported. The government will allocate 100 billion Lebanese pounds (66.3...

Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum Ampofo, has said the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, is currently covering 456,000 beneficiary households (which translates into about 1....

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$1.8 million (JP¥ 200,000,000) contribution from Japan to help bolster food and nutrition security in South Sudan, where millions of people do not know where their next meal is coming from. ...

Guam households that receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, more commonly called food stamps, will automatically get an additional 60 percent of their benefits for this month. The additional SNAP benefits are...

The Employee’s State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has approved a scheme for providing unemployment allowance to workers rendered jobless due to the “changing employment pattern”, acknowledging the fact that permanent jobs are on a...