Saturday, November 17, 2018
The National Government through the State Department for Social Protection will spend Sh.30 billion under the social protection programme this financial year. The money will be disbursed to 1.3 million beneficiaries through Orphans and...
Friday, November 16, 2018
The Women and Child Development Ministry headed by Maneka Sanjay Gandhi announced that the employers of both government and private sector will be granted the salary for female employees during the period of their maternity leaves. According to the...
Friday, November 16, 2018
Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) intends to bring in 8 million beneficiaries to its fold after update of the National Socio Economic Registry (NSER). This was shared in a briefing to a delegation of International Monetary Fund (IMF) that...
Thursday, November 15, 2018
The Borno Government has concluded arrangements to introduce conditional cash transfers to parents enrolling their children and wards in schools to revive education in the state. The State’s Commissioner for Education, Mr Inuwa Kubo, made this known in...
Thursday, November 15, 2018
A delegation of International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), as part of their on-going visit to Pakistan to assess the economic and financial challenges faced by the country here at BISP headquarters on Thursday. The...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
After assuming power in 2011, the Patriotic Front (PF) government has continued to make strides in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor through the implementation of social protection programmes in the country. Social protection programmes that...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The EU is unable to verify with certainty how over €1bn of European taxpayer money was spent on Syrian refugees in Turkey because of Ankara's data protection laws. "I can say that this is a serious situation," chief European auditor Bettina Jakobsen told...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Social transfers in Hungary reduced the number of people at risk of poverty by 46% last year, showing one of the biggest impacts in the European Union, according to data from the EUʼs statistics office Eurostat, cited by Hungarian news agency MTI. ...
Monday, November 12, 2018
There are plans to attract over one million people engaged in informal economic activity in Azerbaijan to paying contributions on compulsory social insurance, Chairman of Azerbaijan’s parliamentary committee on labor and social protection of the...
Monday, November 12, 2018
Four hundred and forty Malawian veterans are among the 7000 Commonwealth veterans who, from this year, will start receiving regular cash transfers to prevent them from going hungry under the new Department for International Development (DFID). The...
