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, 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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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $73 million loan to improve social welfare support for the poor and vulnerable, especially women and children, to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Growth in the Pacific subregion for 2020 has been further downgraded as the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to squeeze the region’s economies.
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Friday, November 20, 2020
Mongolia's Ministry of Labor and Social Protection said on Friday that it has started providing food packages to households at risk of malnutrition amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday, September 14, 2020
The evidence is now clear, and the COVID-19 crisis has only made it more pressing that “now is the time” for universal child benefits – this was the message offered from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) webinar on the subject last week. The...
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Global, Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Asia, Mongolia
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