Saturday, November 13, 2021
With the Covid-19 crisis, the urban informal workers, largely invisibilized by modern urban development, were visible at least on mainstream news, and social media. Those heart wrenching images and news, and the subsequent mobilisation of civil society...
Monday, July 5, 2021
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A look at government spending worldwide on social protection from March 2020 to mid-May 2021 reveals that the...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
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This blog is part of a Better Assistance in Crises Research programme series exploring the implications of...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The Government of India and the World Bank today signed a $400 million project to support India’s efforts at providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households, severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carmen Almeida, 56, worries about keeping in touch with her fellow domestic workers. Most haven’t worked...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Some 24,000 vulnerable families in Mombasa will each get Sh4,000 monthly stipend under a new partnership between the national government and the World Food Programme. The cash-based support arrangement targets families in informal urban settlements that...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
One inadvertent effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic downturn across Africa has been the harsh spotlight on shortcomings of social safety nets across the continent. In addition to boosting public health systems and infrastructure,...
Thursday, May 28, 2020
El impacto socioeconómico de la pandemia COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe podría potencialmente dejar a cerca de 14 millones de personas vulnerables en inseguridad alimentaria severa durante este año, según proyecciones del Programa Mundial de...
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Covid-19 has created a multi-layered crisis in societies across the world. Apart from the devastating direct effects of the pandemic on those infected and their families, health systems, economies, education, social life and psychological wellbeing have...
Monday, August 21, 2017
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) is to roll out a programme dubbed “Operation get off Street now for better Life” to empower kayayei, hawkers and beggars for better life. The Ministry would be providing them with basic...