Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Regions within Pakistan have been vulnerable to and impacted by climate-related disasters long before the widespread flooding of 2022. In Chitral, a district in the north of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, flooding and landslide risks from monsoon systems...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
When natural disasters displace households, impacts on welfare can last for years after the event and vary depending on the extent of response. While climate change threatens to increase the frequency and severity of natural disasters, studying the...
Monday, September 12, 2022
‘Parametric’ insurance could offer farmers quicker relief when they lose their crops to floods, storms, and other climate-driven calamities. Climate change is causing frequent heat waves, erratic rainfall, flooding, and other extreme weather events that...
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Shazia Marri has said that the current devastating floods necessitate the need to invest more on social protection projects and develop resilience to address the inequalities in the country. She...
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Social protection programmes need to be strengthened and expanded across Asia to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world. It also happens to be the most populous, leaving it...
Friday, August 19, 2022
Last year, in the rainy season, Mohammed*, 22, a barber from Reef Ibb, was forced to close his shop. Heavy rains had caused widespread damage that he could not afford to repair. Mohammed – who is the sole breadwinner for his mother, brothers, and sisters...
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...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The experience of one village shows how the World Food Programme can change lives in a year of unprecedented hunger, one community at a time
Country:
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
MSc Anthropology and Development alum Adhvik Shetty looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed Britain’s food insecurity crisis and argues that social protection policies are necessary to prevent those most vulnerable to economic shocks from facing...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
The pandemic has been certainly harsh on poor and vulnerable populations across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Income fell for two-thirds of households and nearly half of workers stopped working, while 16% lost their jobs....
