Wednesday, May 31, 2023
This year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) on May 17 provides a moment to reflect on how COVID-19 affected the economic and mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people...
Friday, March 31, 2023
Zara Fauziah is a transgender woman from Indonesia. She learned she was living with HIV in 2017, but for four years coped with her diagnosis alone. The hospital where she could receive treatment wasn’t welcoming.
Rere Agistya, another...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
A mother and her child’s health are closely interlinked. Children are most dependent on their mothers for their nutritional needs - both as babies born to them and as children primarily cared for by them. In India, a mother’s height and educational...
Monday, March 20, 2023
The World Bank, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) have announced an integrated new open-source software package to improve the management of social protection and...
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Think about the last time you had to apply for a public benefit or service like unemployment insurance, childcare or mental health care. In most OECD countries, these processes require knowledge of how to access a benefit, time, patience and a good deal...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Today, the locally sourced World Food Programme (WFP) supported home-grown school feeding reaches 66 million children in 54 African countries. Almost every plateful (or 84% of the home-grown programmes) is funded by domestic budgets....
Monday, February 20, 2023
Socios En Salud a través del Programa de Protección Social brinda acompañamiento y asistencia social, a fin de hacer frente a los determinantes sociales que rodean el cuidado, la atención y la curación del paciente, que ponen en riesgo el abandono de su...
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Nepal’s newly elected government should prioritize coverage for all children and add coverage for millions of informal workers as it considers changes to the existing system, Human Rights Watch said today. Nepal’s social protection system fails to...
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Kenya has become a poster child for digitally driven development. Known as “Silicon Savannah,” the country has a multi-billion-dollar tech industry that routinely produces startups. Among its most prominent successes is M-Pesa. Launched in 2007, the...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Authors: Wenhui Mao and Ipchita Bharali, Duke University
China has translated its economic development into improved social welfare. China’s quest for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all while lifting 800 million people out of poverty is an...
