Thursday, August 10, 2023
WFP works with the Government of Cambodia to promote gender equality, access to quality education, nutritious diets and social assistance for children in the country's pre-primary and primary schools. “School meals contribute to Cambodia’s human-...
Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a $75.9 million loan to improve living conditions in households in the areas of Honduras with the highest rates of extreme poverty, and to cultivate human capital and self-management capacity in those...
Thursday, September 1, 2022
At a crossroads—this is how we described higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in our 2017 regional study. During the study dissemination, we heard from firms on their struggle to find qualified workforce and from students on...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
With the COVID-19 crisis disproportionately affecting certain vulnerable groups, one of the emerging lessons points to the need to strengthen social protection approaches to ensure the elderly are not left behind. In Chile, the elderly are expected...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
A high school drop-out, Evelyn Nakabuye, who lives on the outskirts of Kampala, survived years of joblessness. She lived in a small house with her four children and her mother. “I was jobless and stranded,” she says. That all changed in 2018 when Evelyn...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
COVID-19 has kept more than 168 million children around the world out of school for more than one year, but as schools reopen it is important not to forget another stubborn and powerful barrier keeping children out of the classroom—distance....
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
The first semester of 2022 generated a wealth of research on social protection. Having reviewed about 500 papers on the theme since January, let me share a rapid selection of 40 exciting materials across 10 themes that you may want to take with...
Friday, July 15, 2022
In June 2022, a young man in Benin’s Sèmè City—a government-sponsored innovation campus for technical and vocational training (TVET), higher education, and research, as well as a business accelerator and incubator—proudly displayed what he had made using...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
In 2021, The Hamilton Project has been doing a deep dive into social insurance in the United States. Our capstone analysis shows that social insurance plays a critical role for workers and families – both in times of crisis, as...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Despite the undeniable threats of climate change, little consideration has been given to creating social safety nets for the vulnerable or engendering resilience in institutions disrupted by extreme climate events. In this post, Nikita Sharma considers...
