Malgré le cadre juridique en place et l’existence de plans nationaux destinés à assurer l’égalité hommes-femmes, le Brésil et le Mali ont encore quelques obstacles à surmonter pour garantir la mise en œuvre de politiques tenant compte de la problématique...
Uganda is experiencing the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world; hosting over 1.2 million refugees, and confronting immense pressures as a result. The unprecedented surge in refugee numbers over the past year combined with the protracted stay of...
With the global pandemic not being over yet, the next shock is already around the corner: skyrocketing prices in energy and food resulting from the war on Europe’s borders. As the most important producer of energy and staple crops such as wheat and corn...
Organiser: Germany - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
The COVID-19 crisis has motivated an unprecedented number of social protection measures around the world. Even though policy adjustments and innovations underway have the potential to strengthen social protection in the long run, the COVID-19 crisis is...
Social protection provisions by the state don’t occur in a vacuum! Evans et al have a fascinating and much-needed ODI paper estimating the magnitude and incidence of ‘informal’ taxes and transfers , i.e., community and household-level support mechanisms...
Countries in Africa have the lowest coverage of social protection and adequate health care despite having an enormous need for such programmes and policies (ILO, 2019). The availability of social protection services is mostly limited to workers and their...
In March 2018,the former federal cabinet of Pakistan approved 'a new and improved version of the Pakistan National Food Security Policy after years of development by the Ministry of National Food Security and Research. This was well received as about 60...
Although over 50% of Saudi women are university graduates (Naseem & Dhruva, 2017), unemployment remains high among Saudi adult females (OECD, 2016). According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), labour force participation is lower among...
In South Africa, unemployment has been recognised as a major social, economic, and political concern. In 2004, the rate of unemployment in the country was 41% (McCord 2017, p-565). In the context of chronic mass under- and unemployment, South Africa...
According to UNICEF (2017) , the future of many Nigerian children is insecure, with an under-5 mortality rate of 39.1/1000 births. Malnutrition, a significant cause of mortality, remains a significant public health problem: 37% of children under-five...
