Thursday, March 28, 2024
Prior to 2020, when the World Bank started supporting the Ministry of Health, the completeness of paper-based birth registrations was only about 59 percent in The Gambia. That meant that a large proportion of the population did not possess a birth...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the gaps in the social safety net and showed how most of the world’s workers – the 2 billion working in the informal economy – are being left behind. As the crisis evolved, many governments developed registries of workers...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Experiences of forced displacement are different for women and men. While these may be positive – such as opening up new opportunities for women in paid work and increased decision-making – they can also be negative, with long-term detrimental effects on...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
“Despite the strategies Government has put in place to ensure sustainability of the SCG program, there is need for Government to demonstrate its commitment by clearing the accumulated arrears owed to the senior citizens. The government also needs to...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Low-income Americans are struggling to obtain help from state governments when they most need it, facing long delays and sometimes insurmountable hurdles when applying for social safety net programs such as food assistance, welfare benefits and health...
Monday, January 2, 2023
Crisis situations call for rapid assistance – without a lot of red tape. This was clearly illustrated recently by the flood disaster in Pakistan: the floods in August 2022 did not affect only those people who already relied on state support, they also...
Monday, October 31, 2022
An SP-ODE can be thought of as a unified, digital platform to access welfare schemes spanning different departments of the government. It is a multi-sided platform, always involving the citizen and the government and, in more mature systems, also,...
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...
Monday, June 6, 2022
Social protection and labour programmes can enable and encourage more sustainable and resilient livelihood practices, but they rarely respond to the needs of fishers and fish workers.
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Friday, April 22, 2022
In less than two months, more than five million people have been forced to flee Ukraine and more than a quarter of the total population of the country has been forcibly displaced due to the war. The majority of the people fleeing Ukraine are...
