Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is little evidence, however, of the effectiveness of ongoing CCT programs several years after they have begun. Such evidence is...
Institutions and agencies involved: Inter-American Development Bank, IDB
The "Strengthening the impact of Rwanda’s VUP-Public Works and beneficiaries’ graduation out of poverty" project was launched in 4 districts in Rwanda by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The 18-month project worth Rwf286...
The objective of the webinar is to introduce the topic of social protection and rural women’s empowerment, exploring the particularities of social protection interventions targeted at rural women and of the Sub-Sahara African context in terms of rural...
Organiser: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, United Kingdom - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO
This paper aims to overview some of the existing literature on social protection mechanisms for the rural poor in the field of old-age protection and health protection as well as their possible effects on poverty reduction. It examines shortcomings and...
Institutions and agencies involved: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD
The webinar "From policy commitments to effective implementation of gender-sensitive social protection programmes" was hosted by the socialprotection.org platform on 2 March 2017. This is the final webinar of the Gender-Sensitive Social Protection...
Organiser: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
The complexity of extreme poverty challenges designers of development programmes to identify clear entry-points for interventions which can lead to progressive improvements in lives and livelihoods. This paper investigates the approach of the Chars...
Institutions and agencies involved: University of Manchester
L'interprétation simultanée (anglais-français) était disponible pour cette session. Join the Q&A discussion COVID-19 affects rural lives and livelihoods in a specific way. Rural areas already concentrated 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor,...
Organiser: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, International Labour Organization, ILO
In the last decade, Brazil gained widespread recognition around the world for its successful initiatives in fi ghting hunger and extreme poverty. The country’s experience is serving as inspiration for other countries to develop their own policies and...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
Poor rural households often depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and face a series of constraints in terms of their equitable access to productive resources, finance, markets and services – which trap them into poverty. They are also...
Organiser: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
Video du webinaire Protection sociale et renforcement de l’agriculture familiale, le troisième de la série The Brazilian experience of Social Protection Programmes et organizé par l’Initiative brésilienne d’apprentissage pour un monde sans pauvreté le...
Organiser: Brazil Learning Initiative for a World Without Poverty, WWP
