Written by Isabela Franciscon and Tomás Borges, socialprotection.org. In 2022, after two years of COVID-19-dominated headlines, record inflation rates and climate change-related events took centre stage in the global debate. It comes as no surprise that...
Jointly produced with the socialprotection.org team (Mariana Balboni, Patricia Velloso, Fabio Veras, Fabiana Pullen Sousa, and Marina Carvalho), Valentina Barca, and Martina Bergthaller. Happy birthday socialprotection.org ! To celebrate its 5th...
Written by Food and Agriculture Organization Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (FAO RLC) and the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) . FAO RLC and the IPC-IG joined efforts to prepare a series of policy briefs...
While universal social protection may be beyond reach for some of the poorest countries, all countries can contribute to the achievement of the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing for Social Protection Floors...
What happens 10 years after providing a package of cash transfers and assets ? In India, Banerjee et al shows it improved consumption (1 standard deviations, SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD) and health (0.2 SD). Interestingly, they also trace...
Co-authors: Nenad Rava, Maya Marquez, and Patrick Breard The Joint SDG Fund has mobilised and invested a total of USD 101 million into integrated social protection to leave no one behind in 35 joint programmes. The programmes accelerate the SDGs through...
After Prospera , Mexico in on a path to introduce a scholarship scheme – that is, something similar to a high school conditional cash transfer (CCT) program targeted by age and with no particular poverty criteria. This resembles Prepa Sì , an urban CCT...
This blog summarises the exchanges and key messages raised by the expert panel at the webinar ‘‘ Child Care Services and Women’s Work ’’, held on 20 May 2021 and organised by WIEGO, Nelson Mandela Foundation, ECDAN, PSI, and IDWF. If you missed the...
The webinar Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on employment: (potential) solutions for informal and self-employed workers was the 6th event of the Social protection responses to COVID-19 webinar series and took place on April 21, 2020. It was co-organized...
Poverty and food security – a precarious balance for rural households Social protection, nutrition and food security are intrinsically linked by the fact that poverty (and the inadequate quantity, quality or access to human, economic and institutional...
