Monday, April 22, 2024 to Friday, May 03, 2024
CISS celebrates another edition of Social Security Week with a program that includes a wide range of topics, from childhood awareness to the impact of mental health and population ageing on social security systems. The objective is to disseminate social...
Location:
America, Mexico
Sunday, November 19, 2023 to Monday, November 20, 2023
Social protection can be broadly defined as the policies and programs concerned with “preventing, managing, and overcoming situations which adversely affect people’s wellbeing” (UN Research Institute for Social Development). It includes policies such as...
Monday, October 02, 2023 to Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Based on sustained government commitment and development of institutional capacities, social security in West Africa has made important progress over the past decade through strengthening both legal frameworks and administrative structures. However, large...
Thursday, June 02, 2022
A Workshop on Methodological Challenges in Global Perspective
This international workshop focuses on the methodological and conceptual challenges of comparative social protection analysis, taking a global and interdisciplinary perspective. It will explore the...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Dealing with the worst crisis in the last 50 years and in the midst of a complex sociopolitical environment, Latin America faces important dilemmas. Developing and implementing the correct fiscal policy mix is certainly one of the toughest: How can the region...
Monday, January 11, 2021 to Friday, January 15, 2021
Social protection is a sub-set of public actions that help address risk, vulnerability and chronic poverty. Social transfers and social services are a long-term investment. They carry lifetime benefits and high individual and social returns. Social protection...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020 to Thursday, September 24, 2020
Social protection is used today to alleviate poverty, ensure health and food security, and ensure people can work productively even when labor markets change. Policy makers and practitioners increasingly ask about the role of social protection to help shield...
Location:
Global, Asia, Indonesia, Europe, Germany
Thursday, October 04, 2018
The EU-funded project Research, Network & Support Facility (RNSF) organises #InformalTalks, a series of webinars dedicated to the Informal Economy, to disseminate the results of its research. The third #InformalTalks webinar is entitled "How to extend...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs can improve nutrition outcomes for young children, however documentation of the extent of their effectiveness has been limited. Recent evidence from Burkina Faso published by IFPRI and Helen Keller International (HKI...
Location:
America, United States
Monday, November 06, 2017
One of the greatest challenges today is to end hunger and poverty while making agriculture and food systems sustainable. The 2017 edition of FAO's The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) presents strategies that can leverage the potential of food systems to...