Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Many Egyptians, especially the poor, are concerned by the government’s apparent intention to replace food ration cards with cash subsidies. The Council of Ministers has said it is considering the change, but has yet to unveil the details of its...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The Federal Government, has reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring access to affordable healthcare and robust social protection to member states of the Developing Eight (D-8) countries. The Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada...
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has said the country’s school feeding programme is a main tool of social protection and an essential pillar of the social safety net. The school feeding programme has a positive impact on children's health and...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
BLOG: History tells us that inclusive, lifecycle national social security systems play a key role in enabling nations to tackle poverty and inequality, promote human development, build the social contract, generate social cohesion and stimulate economic...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Egypt signed on Wednesday, Sept. 11 an agreement with the World Bank to finance the second phase of the Social Security Nets Support Project, Takaful and Karama, by $500 million. The project will strengthen the social safety nets for an additional three...
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Poverty rates in Upper Egypt have decreased compared to previous years because of the focus on social protection programs in the governorates of Upper Egypt, Deputy Minister of Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform of Planning Ahmed Kamali said...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli on Tuesday said the government will continue to support social protection programs and the subsidy system while establishing an accurate and sound database to determine the real beneficiaries.
He was speaking at...
Monday, July 22, 2019
Nine years after completing an administrative assistant training program in Assiut, a city 250 miles south of Cairo, Samiha Abdel Ghaffar still earns just 700 Egyptian pounds a month (about $42) at her position in a law firm. Each year, about 450,...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
As Egypt’s poor fall between the anvil of low income and the hammer of price hikes, social protection programs become increasingly deemed as a vehicle for ensuring social and political stability. To this end, the Egyptian authorities plan to launch...
Saturday, July 13, 2019
A new social welfare law that would see beneficiaries of cash subsidy programmes merged under one umbrella is to be submitted this week to parliament for discussion before it goes to summer recess. The new law includes the criteria and mechanism of...
