The Great Recession highlights deficiencies in social protection systems that should be in place to promote broad-based economic growth. Real people’s livelihoods and families are at the receiving end ...

Delivery Systems form the backbone of social protection programs. They provide the operating environment to enable program implementation, connecting individuals and households with institutions, ...

PRISTINA, March 22, 2022 – Kosovo needs to reform its social protection programs to ensure they reduce poverty and bring about improvements in equity and human capital, says a new EU-funded ...

“Our lives are interdependent and we see no distinction between us. We are human and share the same needs. This is what motivates us to work together,” said Sifa Dusabe (left), who was a Congolese ...

Through supporting the effectiveness of Rwanda’s flagship social protection Vision 2020 Umurenge Program (VUP), the World Bank’s Strengthening Social Protection Project (SSPP) increased the coverage ...

A new report has warned that Bhutan’s social protection system is fragmented and underfunded, leaving large sections of the population vulnerable to poverty, economic shocks, and climate risks, even ...

Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the necessity of robust social protection programs, and Jordan is no exception. In 2019, Jordanian authorities introduced the Unified Cash ...

The finding is the outcome of research conducted on the Social Relief of Distress grant scheme which provides monthly cash ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) launched the “Supporting Sustainable Social Protection Systems in Nigeria” (SUSI) project to bolster ...

The European Union (EU) has pledged €46 million to support Nigeria’s social protection system under the newly launched Sustainable Social Protection System in Nigeria programme. The initiative, ...

As an economy develops, economic policy and social policy tend to overlap. Reports of long queues of people in Ho Chi Minh City withdrawing their social insurance contributions after losing their jobs ...