Wednesday, October 16, 2024
FAO and ILO organized a two-day workshop to update their Guidance on addressing child labour in fisheries and aquaculture, a key, comprehensive document designed to provide policymakers, fisher organizations, sectoral institutions, and the private sector...
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Barriers like poverty, underrepresentation and disenfranchisement disproportionately impact women and girls across the globe. While social protection measures have the potential to positively impact the female population, they often fall short....
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
On June 12 the world will come together to mark the World Day Against Child Labour, casting a much-needed spotlight on a critical challenge that continues to affect millions of children worldwide. Child labour is work that is inappropriate for a...
Friday, May 24, 2024
The important role of social protection programming (especially cash/in-kind transfers and cash or food for work) in responding to humanitarian crises has been gaining increasing recognition. Its role in addressing gender- and lifecycle-specific risks...
Monday, March 25, 2024
Forced displacement often forces children out of school and into employment at a young age. This disruption in their human capital formation leads to poverty in the long term. This column demonstrates that unconditional cash transfers provided to...
Thursday, March 7, 2024
The Waai (meaning “awareness” in Arabic) Program is a behavioral awareness and change platform launched in 2020 and a key intervention of the Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program (TKP). It aims to reach Egypt’s vulnerable citizens on 12 interlinked...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Globally, 1.4 billion children, aged under 15, lack any form of social protection, leaving them vulnerable to disease, poor nutrition and poverty, according to new data released today by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Save the Children and...
Friday, August 18, 2023
Two women who received World Food Programme school-feeding support as children on their passion for serving WFP as humanitarian workers today. Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She...
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Friday, June 23, 2023
Child benefits are literally a life saver and game changer for children. They can make the difference between a healthy, happy and long life or one punctuated by ill health, stress and unrealised potential, especially in times of crisis. They are...
Monday, June 5, 2023
Pacific households will not recover from the health, economic, and educational impacts of COVID-19 based on grit and resilience alone. Data shows that traditional community assistance mechanisms are being pushed to their limits as Pacific families cut...
