Monday, October 19, 2020
Over 500,000 informal sector workers who were classified as “unserved” during the implementation of the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act 1, may soon benefit from the next round of emergency employment from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Monday, September 16, 2019
INTERVIEW: In conflict-affected areas, rural social insurance programmes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) can reduce violent events by half by shielding workers from income volatility caused by shock...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
ACTED spoke to Ibrahim, a 46 year old Syrian who recently took part in an ACTED’s ‘Cash for Work’ scheme, to explore how such short-term employment opportunities are helping Syrian families to meet their most immediate and pressing needs. Cash-for-...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
The Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) here, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) cash-for-work program, created a microfinance institution among the self-help group (SHG) to discourage patronage of loan...
Thursday, April 18, 2019
A cleaning initiative in Irbid was held on Wednesday to “stand shoulder to shoulder” with beneficiaries of Action Against Hunger’s cash assistance programme.
“The notion of direct cash assistance is slowly disappearing. Nowadays, most NGOs provide...
Monday, April 15, 2019
INTERVIEW: There is a proliferation of income support schemes on the Indian public policy landscape. Add to this two more by the principal national parties contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Earlier this year, the Union government headed by...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A US$200 million emergency package to provide social support and employment for communities devastated in Iraq’s ongoing armed conflicts has been agreed by the World Bank.
The Emergency Social Stabilization and Resilience Project (ESSRP) aims to...
Thursday, April 5, 2018
The World Bank Group approved today the Emergency Social Stabilization and Resilience Project (ESSRP), a US$200 million project that aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million Iraqi in liberated areas through the provision of cash, short-term...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) would commence conditional cash transfer to the poorest of the poor across the Territory next month, the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has said.
The Ministermade this known while declaring...
Friday, August 4, 2017
A new programme is set to target social welfare recipients to work on dairy farms. The programme aims to address the labour shortage in the dairy sector and could see some participants earn up to €5,000 without affecting their current level of social...