Friday, July 17, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — The clock is ticking as New Mexico and other states move toward reinstating work and job-training requirements for certain low-income adults who receive food stamps.
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Se trata de un "programa nacional de acompañamiento para la madre y el recién nacido", que implica la entrega de un kit que incluye cuna, sábanas, frazada y otros elementos básicos y la realización de controles médicos obligatorios.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
An estimated 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 are currently out of school, according to a recent report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF. This is a staggering number, and the barriers to school enrolment–...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
ISLAMABAD: Federal health authorities and the anti-poverty scheme named after former prime minister Benazir Bhutto have joined forces to introduce conditional cash transfers (CCT) for maternal and child health improvement.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
In an inverview with the ILO in July 2015, Helmut Schwarzer presents a review on Bolsa Família recent developments in terms of design, performance and coverage.
Helmut Schwarzer is the National Secretary for Citizenship Income, Ministry of...
Friday, July 10, 2015
Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional $267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so poor people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, a...
Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Ministry of Social Solidarity has announced the first stage of two programs, Solidarity and Dignity, in the governorates of Assiut and Sohag. These programs offer cash support to the poor in the first conditional cash-transfer programs in Egypt....
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Worldwide, close to one in seven countries provide non-contributory child benefits on a universal basis, primarily being European and a few other OECD countries (see map below). This means that they give social security payments (or tax rebates) to all...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
As part of an ECHO-funded Enhanced Response Capacity grant, UNHCR in partnership with WFP, Oxfam GB and the Cash Learning Partnership held an inter-agency workshop on cash and protection in Nairobi on the 10-12th March. The workshop...
Friday, June 5, 2015
This is the third in a series of articles on the potential of cash transfer programmes for Africa. In the last post, we concluded that cash transfers may be better suited to delivering humanitarian assistance than addressing the structural...
