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...
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...
Thursday, July 15, 2021
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Millions have been ‘newly impoverished’ by the pandemic but strategic action can keep reducing...
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Global, Africa, Sierra Leone, Europe, United Kingdom
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Responding to the impacts of COVID-19 in Western and Central Africa, the World Bank has supported the rapid...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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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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Monday, April 26, 2021
Developing countries have used most of their COVID-19 recovery funds to bail out big business, neglecting millions of people who have been pushed into poverty including cash-in-hand workers, women and the disabled, a study showed on Thursday.
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Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, South Africa, America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Asia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal
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