New and innovative social protection solutions are urgently required to strike a balance between the provision of safety nets, promote financial resilience and human capital development, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri...
New and innovative social protection solutions are urgently required to strike a balance between the provision of safety nets, promote financial resilience and human capital development, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri...
A signature event, held on November 10 at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Georgia, marked the beginning of an EU-project “Strengthening Social Protection in Georgia”, which is going to be implemented by Expertise France, the...
Street vendors and other workers considered part of the informal labor force or self-employed are calling on the government to provide social protection and support just like the support that workers in formal sectors receive.
If you are a policy maker or a social protection practitioner in a developing country, then as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across urban and rural populations you likely found yourself thinking hard on how to support the informal...
Policy responses to Covid-19 have encouraged discussion of the future scope of social assistance, and social protection. Social assistance infrastructure – registries, payment systems, poverty maps – facilitated the rapid deployment...
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious threats to food security and nutrition of the poorest people in the Kyrgyz Republic, particularly those living in urban areas, according...
With frequent exposure to a range of shocks, leading to high rates of vulnerability, the risk of falling back into poverty has remained high for many in Nepal. The COVID-19 crisis has had severe economic impacts and is expected to...
The health impacts of COVID-19 have not spared Nigeria. Negative coping strategies threaten welfare today and have implications for the future. Alongside other immediate priorities for Nigeria, such as rolling out vaccines and...
In an EMIR Research article, “Budget 2022 – towards a more comprehensive welfare system” (November 3, 2021), we had called for there to be put in place “a comprehensive and systematic welfare system that caters and meets the needs...
As this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) unfolds, the world is facing coinciding crises. Multiple regions hit their highest-ever recorded surface temperatures this year, tens of millions of people are being displaced by...
The “Herder programme” is one of the joint activities the ILO Mongolia and UNFPA Mongolia as part of the ILO-led UN Joint Programme (UNJP) “Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness.” The programme is...
On November 2, 2021, Singapore’s Parliament passed the amended Central Provident Fund (CPF) Act and the Retirement and Re-Employment Act. The CPF is the obligatory savings and pension plan for Singaporeans and permanent residents...
