Sunday, November 21, 2021
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, approaches (31 October -12 November in Glasgow, Scotland), climate action is more urgent than ever. Yes, we need climate change mitigation. But for the people who are most marginalized...
Friday, November 19, 2021
Far from the limelight, global leaders are on the cusp of striking a historic and unprecedented financing deal for spurring pandemic recovery through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), a mechanism overseen by 173 governments...
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Surendar Yadav from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, managed to get a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) job card just before the Covid-19 lockdown imposed in March 2020, but over the next six months, was not able to find work...
Thursday, March 11, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate-related crises drive acute levels of hunger higher, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.1 billion in 2021 to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's...
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Unemployed people of over thirty-thousand (30,000) poverty-stricken households in eighty districts in Ghana are expected to be employed under the Labour Intensive Public Works Project (LIPW). The Project is under the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project (...
Thursday, August 22, 2019
A decade of conflict has severely affected food production systems in northeastern Nigeria, with the worst affected states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe experiencing high displacement, enormous human, social and economic losses and severe levels...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
OPINION: India, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, has a social protection system that may be outdated. Its social protection was founded in the 1970s, when half of the population was chronically poor, and most of them lived in rural...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
In Mali, many agropastoral households in the central regions – Mopti and Ségou – have suffered from the impact of socio-political crisis in northern Mali. This has triggered tensions among local communities over scarce resources and adversely...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
A total of 35,533 families displaced by the war in Marawi City received money from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to fund their own small businesses.
On Wednesday, January 23, Social Welfare Undersecretary Luzviminda Ilagan...
Friday, November 2, 2018
The World Bank on Thursday, November 1, approved a $60 million International Development Association (IDA) credit for the Ghana Productive Safety Net project. The project aims at strengthening, improving social safety nets and the productive inclusion of...