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, ...

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 ...

In November 2008, a particularly acute crisis engulfed the UK’s child protection system, after media coverage of the death of Peter Connelly (Baby P) descended into a campaign of vilification against ...

1. What is the World Bank’s position on universal social protection? The World Bank is committed to the goal of universal social protection. This means ensuring access to social protection for all ...

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), ...

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 ...

Malawi’s social protection programmes are facing serious pressure due to low funding, raising concerns about the government’s ability to support vulnerable groups, a new budget analysis has shown. In ...

The European Union (EU) has called on the federal and state governments to increase financing for social protection interventions, saying it was critical to reducing poverty across the country. Head ...