Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The experience of one village shows how the World Food Programme can change lives in a year of unprecedented hunger, one community at a time
Country:
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021
In the busy streets of Male, the capital of Maldives, Aminath Waheed picks up passengers, blazing a trail as the city’s only female taxi driver. In the hills of Nepal, 30-year-old Madhukala Adhikari works as a mobile mason, helping families rebuild...
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Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021
As COVID-19 spread across the world, governments responded with an unprecedented increase in social assistance measures. Policymakers had to shift their focus to urban areas, particularly slums, whose residents were hit the hardest by the...
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Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
The United Nations (UN) and Maldives on Thursday signed a project document on digitialising social services in order to better protect women and girls from poverty and violence during emergency situations.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Millions of Pacific workers with previously stable incomes from the tourism sector are at risk of sliding into poverty, predicts a new International Labour Organisation (ILO) report. With government restrictions banning overseas travel as a result of the...
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Asia, Maldives, Oceania, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu
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Friday, March 20, 2020
The government of Maldives will be subsidizing part of water and electricity bills as part of efforts undertaken to mitigate losses caused to the public due to the current COVID-19 outbreak.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
BLOG: Consider this hypothesis: What if social safety net programs, such as cash-for-work, could help turn around the struggling efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo)? This unexpected idea is...
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Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has announced that the maternity leave granted to mothers have now been increased to six months.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
As humanitarian crises are worsening, the bloc has allocated an initial annual budget of €1.6bn for 2019. In 2018, the initial budget was €1.07bn, although the final budget for 2018 increased to €1.75bn. The money allocated to humanitarian...
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Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Asia, Syria, Yemen
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari on Social Investment, says the National Social Welfare Pregramme at the National Safety-Nets Co-ordinating Office (NASSCO) targets one million poor people annually. Uwais said this while...
Country:
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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