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 ...

Social protection systems help the poor and vulnerable cope with crises, find jobs, invest in the health and education of their children, and protect the elderly. Supérate—the largest and most ...

Social protection programs are crucial for stabilizing household income, especially during crises. Brazil's response to the pandemic, the Auxilio Emergencial (AE) program, demonstrated the value of a ...

Gestión Social Local (GSL) is a people-centric, integrated municipal one-stop shop that, since 2019, has improved access to social protection for more than 10 million people (50 percent of the Chilean ...

On 1 June 2024, Kariega in the Eastern Cape was deluged with more than 220 millimetres of rain — nearly half-a-year’s worth in 24 hours, enough to turn a football field into a shin-deep lake. In ...

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 ...

Syria’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor held a high-level technical workshop on data governance and social protection, in ...

These four IRC sector-specific case studies (health, education, child protection and social protection) show how diverse partnerships in programme delivery can strengthen government systems, improve ...

25 of November 2022, CHIȘINĂU - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), International Organization for Migration (IOM) ...

On Tuesday in Rabat, Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch reaffirmed the government’s commitment to fully implementing the national solidarity project on the universalization of social protection.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said it will continue to support the Federal Government’s social protection programmes. The ILO Country Director for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra ...