Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Ritu Bharadwaj and Daljeet Kaur discuss how women leaders in India are showing the way for enhancing access to social protection and delivering climate resilience at scale.
Friday, November 1, 2024
In Salvador, the vulnerable and impoverished are not hidden away but are a visible presence at tourist attractions, in every neighborhood, and in the makeshift dwellings that dot the cityscape. A solid social assistance system, with adequate funding,...
Monday, October 21, 2024
Gender-based violence (GBV) impacts millions of women around the globe every year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one in three women have been subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime (WHO 2021). GBV is a complex...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
By the close of 2024, UN Women projects that nearly 10 per cent of women and girls around the world will live in households in extreme poverty. That is about 1 per cent higher than the rate for boys and men; a small percentage, but representing some 22...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A UN Women report reveals that policies ranging from cash benefits to healthcare and pensions are not being extended to enough women and girls, leaving them more vulnerable to poverty worldwide.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Laruwati Kamat, a rural woman farmer from Siraha district in eastern Nepal, has always known the value of fresh food. For generations, her family followed seasonal patterns to cultivate vegetables, believing certain months were the only viable time to...
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....
Friday, September 27, 2024
In Malawi, the Home-Grown School Feeding Program (HGSFP) - supported by the European Union (EU) and the World Food Programme (WFP) - is transforming nutrition through biofortified crops. From June 25-30 2024, awareness meetings...
Thursday, August 15, 2024
UNICEF supports Child-Sensitive Social Protection programmes because childhood is a special window of opportunity where we can make a real impact on physical, cognitive, and social development. However, children aren’t the only ones that benefit from...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Oman has launched the implementation of new social insurance maternity benefits that are set to significantly improve labour market opportunities for women in the Sultanate. The new scheme is part of ambitious and wide-ranging social protection reforms...
