Thursday, August 15, 2024
UNICEF supports Child-Sensitive Social Protection programmes because childhood is a special window of opportunity where we can make a real impact on physical, cognitive, and social development. However, children aren’t the only ones that benefit from...
Monday, August 12, 2024
Governments in the Pacific and Timor-Leste have been investing in formal social protection for more than 50 years, but the last two decades have seen massive shifts. Across the region, expenditure on social assistance programs has almost doubled, and...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Occupied Palestinian territory, (ILO-News)- A virtual workshop series of the Social Protection Cash and Voucher Assistance Thematic Working Group (SPCVA TWG), supported by the International Labour Organization, explored how partners can better meet the...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Cash transfer programs have significantly reduced poverty over the years. The World Bank's Social Protection and Jobs (SPJ) Unit, in collaboration with ideas42 and the government of Ghana has enhanced these programs with cost-effective...
Friday, August 2, 2024
Informal employment encompasses workers who are not effectively covered by formal arrangements, such as commercial laws, reporting procedures for economic activities, income taxation, labor legislation, or social security laws. This lack of coverage...
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Despite social protection’s significant advances in recent years, its potential to contribute to the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has not been fully exploited. This can be seen by considering three empirical facts...
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Households that received the transfer were far less likely to go a day without eating, reported higher child food consumption and wellbeing after the floods hit, lost fewer assets, and had better earnings potential post-flooding. And these benefits...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
With the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approaching, significant strides have been made, yet considerable work remains to be done. Multilateral cooperation stands as the linchpin for accelerating progress towards these...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Local organizations understand the needs of their communities best, yet they only receive 2.1% of donor money as of 2022, according to research consultancy Development Initiatives. What is preventing international NGOs and implementers...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Oman has launched the implementation of new social insurance maternity benefits that are set to significantly improve labour market opportunities for women in the Sultanate. The new scheme is part of ambitious and wide-ranging social protection reforms...
