Friday, August 18, 2023
Two women who received World Food Programme school-feeding support as children on their passion for serving WFP as humanitarian workers today. Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She...
Country:
Africa, South Sudan, Uganda
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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...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
Country:
Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
As the cloud of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hovers over the world, countries are reinventing means of resuscitating their economies, and Uganda is following suit. Prior to the pandemic, per capita growth averaged 2.8% between 2015 and 2019, a pace at...
Monday, July 5, 2021
The government is attempting a new way of getting a Shs100, 000 (Approx. US$28) one-off cash relief to people who might have slipped into poverty as a result of the ongoing 42-day lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The global Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst for technology-intensive initiatives for welfare distribution, coming at a high cost to human rights and inclusion: enforcing automated discrimination, exacerbating existing inequalities and...
Country:
Africa, Uganda, America, Bolivia, Colombia, Asia, India
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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We know the economic impacts of COVID-19 have been severe. Advanced and developing countries alike have...
Country:
Africa, Angola, Burundi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Asia, North Korea
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Monday, April 12, 2021
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Governments are increasingly making registration in national ID systems mandatory for accessing social...
Country:
Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Asia, India
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Monday, February 22, 2021
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For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is rising around the world, as COVID-19 threatens to...
Country:
Africa, Niger, Uganda, Zambia, America, Peru, Asia, Afghanistan
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Monday, December 21, 2020
Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s most impoverished. So, experts are asking, why can’t they receive direct compensation and support?
Country:
Africa, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Asia, Bhutan, India, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom, Europe
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