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, February 8, 2022
Government assistance to the poor—especially cash and similar benefits—has always sparked heated debates. Who deserves support? How much support, and for how long? Should poor people have to do something in return for the benefits? Won’t social...
Monday, January 3, 2022
Morocco has announced an expansion of social protection programs, which will be made up of new categories. The government, through Khaled Ait Taleb, Minister of Health and Social Protection, reported on the new project in which the country’s leadership...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
The “Herder programme” is one of the joint activities the ILO Mongolia and UNFPA Mongolia as part of the ILO-led UN Joint Programme (UNJP) “Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness.” The programme is the first...
Monday, November 1, 2021
The ILO-led UN Joint Programme “Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness” seeks to extend social protection to herders, focusing on reducing herders’ vulnerabilities to poverty and extreme climate change. In this regard,...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
In September 2020, 32 herders, herder cooperative representatives, lifelong education trainers, social insurance officers, and trade union delegates from five soums (lower administration unit of the province) in Zavkhan province attended a two-day...
Monday, October 4, 2021
While accounting for a third of the population, only 15% of herders in Mongolia contribute to the voluntary social insurance scheme. Most of such low rate is due to a lack of knowledge of herders about social protection. According to a study, 30%-40% of...
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 25, 2021
Le Maroc est en passe de devenir le premier pays africain à élargir la protection sociale à tous ses citoyens, a indiqué la présidente de la Banque Européenne pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (BERD), Odile Renaud-Basso.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing serious concerns about access to knowledge and services for people with...
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Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Oceania, Samoa
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