Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Around the world, governments are using automation to help deliver public services like food, housing, and cash assistance to people. The World Bank is one of the biggest drivers of this trend, providing governments with loans and technical support to...
Monday, August 22, 2022
Privacy International researched a number of social safety-net projects financed by the World Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reflects on how certain aspects of social protection projects can inadvertently lead to excessive surveillance...
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Africa, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, America, Haiti, Asia, Jordan, Lebanon
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The International Labour Organization's (ILO) 2020-2022 World Social Protection Report revealed that 46.9% of the world’s population are “covered by at least one social protection benefit”, excluding health. Arab states fall below the global average, at...
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Africa, Asia, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
UNICEF's cash transfer programme has played a key played a key role in helping children access education, suggests a new study released today on maximizing the impact of cash transfers for vulnerable adolescents in Jordan.
Monday, June 28, 2021
The World Bank has approved additional financing of US$290 million for the Emergency Cash Transfer COVID-19 Response Project to provide cash support to poor and vulnerable households and workers affected by the economic impact of the...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Women, informal workers, and farmers were among the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa region, according to a new labour market survey.
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Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Asia, Jordan
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Forty-eight per cent of all young people in Jordan are unemployed, according to a statement issued by the Jordan Labour Watch (JLW) of the Phenix Centre for Economics and Informatics Studies on Labour Day.
Monday, April 5, 2021
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How did cash actors delivering assistance to refugees in Jordan adapt to the COVID-19 crisis? What were the...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh has announced new measures to alleviate the country’s economic burdens, particularly focusing on COVID-19 hard-hit sectors.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
The joint FAGNAVOTSE program is on the one hand financed by the SDG Fund and on the other hand under the technical and financial support of four United Nations agencies: UNICEF, WFP, ILO and UNFPA. It will be implemented in three communes of the pilot...