The European Union (EU) has urged the Federal and state governments to increase funding for social protection interventions, emphasising its importance in reducing poverty nationwide. Mr Massimo De ...

Social protection policies and programs help individuals and families escape poverty, manage risks, and improve resilience and opportunity. Prioritizing poorer households in social protection programs ...

The World Bank-funded Socio-Economic Recovery Fund in Comoros has been pivotal in empowering women to establish successful businesses by offering both financial and technical support. Beneficiaries, ...

Sir:Over the years, Nigeria has witnessed huge and seemingly growing insecurity problems, rapid increase in poverty rate, high inequality and concurrent threats of instability. The recent report by ...

President William Ruto on Wednesday, July 30, assented to key legislative proposals, including the Conflict-of-Interest Bill 2023 and the Social Protection Bill 2025. The bills were sponsored by ...

The World Bank Group supports India to improve the effectiveness of social protection (SP) systems to increase resilience to shocks that can force vulnerable populations into poverty. This includes ...

Vital social protection programmes can be sustained even during conflict and protracted crises, according to findings from a five-year research initiative working across eleven countries. The BASIC ...

Pakistan, May 26 -- The Social Protection Department, Government of Sindh, in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), ...

This study explores the relationship between out-of-pocket health expenditure, social protection interventions, and life expectancy of female-headed households in China. The study was based on data ...

UNHCR uses cash transfers to provide protection, assistance and services to vulnerable displaced persons. This allows them to meet their most pressing needs, build and support livelihoods, and ...

Rania Antonopoulos is Director of the Gender Equality and the Economy Program at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. Periods of economic upheaval are always destabilizing and, as ...