Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Experiences of forced displacement are different for women and men. While these may be positive – such as opening up new opportunities for women in paid work and increased decision-making – they can also be negative, with long-term detrimental effects on...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Experience shows that aid interventions are more empowering and successful when participants’ experiences, perceptions, and preferences guide programme design and delivery. In Uganda, 97% of refugees receive some form of cash-based transfers as direct...
Monday, September 27, 2021
Well-designed social registries are key to ensuring that the development gains promised by technology are realised while enabling transformative innovations for welfare-delivery at population scale. With increasing digitisation of our lives, we are...
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Surendar Yadav from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, managed to get a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) job card just before the Covid-19 lockdown imposed in March 2020, but over the next six months, was not able to find work...
Friday, August 13, 2021
The pandemic could have been an opportunity for India's welfare measures to shine. But poorly designed interfaces, centralisation, and lack of accountability have made access difficult, necessitating civil society organisations to step in.
Blog: The...
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems (SRSP) and efforts to link humanitarian assistance and social protection are hot on the agenda, driven in part by a huge expansion of cash-based assistance in response to Covid-19. These linkages are part of...
Monday, May 17, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this Op-Ed belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org
This commentary turns to social protection policies, entering an area in which the United States struggles to...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
To assess the impact of COVID-19 on households, the World Bank and Central Bureau of Statistics are jointly collecting data through a first-of-its-kind mobile phone survey. The first round of survey results revealed growing hardship for families who have...
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Entre 10% e 15% da população viverão com menos de R$ 155 por mês em janeiro, cinco meses após alcançar mínima histórica de 2,3%, prevê economista. Em meio à pandemia, opção seria pagar valor menor a menos pessoas.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org.
Covid-19 has catapulted social protection into the spotlight. From furloughing to school feeding...