Monday, July 1, 2024
Around the world, emergencies are becoming more complex and protracted. To address them effectively, we need to strengthen the connection between humanitarian action, development efforts, and peacebuilding. This is what the humanitarian-development-peace...
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Asia, Palestinian Territory
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Monday, July 1, 2024
New amendments to the Social Insurance Law bring strong positive contributions to social insurance coverage and adequacy in Viet Nam. Pension integration, extended legal coverage and lump sum withdrawals are some of the key issues tackled by the Law...
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Cash Plus is a cash transfer modality that pairs unconditional cash transfers with productive inputs, assets and or technical training, aimed at supporting beneficiaries to address immediate needs while engaging in productive activities (FAO, 2023)....
Friday, June 14, 2024
Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should work to develop, expand and fund universal social protection systems that guarantee the right to social security for all, Amnesty International said today, announcing it has signed the...
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Africa, Egypt, Asia, Lebanon
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Friday, June 14, 2024
Through its Integrated Early Childhood Development (IECD) Program, supported by the World Bank under the Social Protection Transformation Project, Rwanda is successfully providing high-quality care and early stimulation for children, helping parents...
Thursday, June 6, 2024
GirlsEmpoweringGirls is the first urban social protection programme in Uganda that seeks to ensure that in- and out-of-school adolescent girls living in Kampala transition safely into adulthood, and are empowered to achieve their goals, while...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Globally, the last five years have tested the resolve of societies as they are confronted with a myriad of unprecedented health, economic, climactic, and social challenges. In developing countries like Belize, those crises have demonstrated that...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
With support from the World Bank and USAID, UNICEF distributed cash to 86,000 families with at least one girl between 12 and 17 years old. Each family received three separate tranches of payment of $120.00 to cover opportunity costs related to education...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Serious financing problems are a major concern of social security policy makers around the world. Global trends such as population aging, diminishing job stability and a secular decline in interest rates have exacerbated pressures on many systems that...
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America, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Falkland Islands, French Guyana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Over the last two decades most countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region initiated and strengthened social assistance programs, addressing long-standing regional challenges of poverty, inequality, lagging human capital outcomes, and...
