Sunday, August 15, 2021
Surendar Yadav from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, managed to get a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) job card just before the Covid-19 lockdown imposed in March 2020, but over the next six months, was not able to find work...
Friday, August 13, 2021
The pandemic could have been an opportunity for India's welfare measures to shine. But poorly designed interfaces, centralisation, and lack of accountability have made access difficult, necessitating civil society organisations to step in.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used in low- and middle-...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
When Anushree Shridhar heard that vegetables and fruits were rotting in fields near Bengaluru because of India’s COVID-19 lockdown, she knew she had to do something to connect farmers and hungry families. Anushree, a senior accounting assistant with the...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Early Friday morning, people in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi’s informal settlement Kibera began queuing for a food distribution. Residents said they had been waiting for it for over a week — the community elders had gathered their names, ID, and...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, has commenced the implementation of a project to improve social safety nets and productive inclusion of the poor and the...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
The growing ageing population in Kenya continues to put further pressure on families and the State to provide quality livelihoods for the senior citizens. The government currently runs three cash transfer programmes to poor and vulnerable groups.
They...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Social security is a universally recognized human right. It is defined as an individual’s protection from risks associated with sickness, disability, maternity, employment injury, unemployment, old age, death, unaffordable health care and insufficient...
Saturday, January 27, 2018
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for renewed commitment to eliminate undernutrition and hunger in Africa.
FAO’s 2017 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the world indicated that civil conflicts and...
Friday, December 8, 2017
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare to be unable to provide for their child.
For 35-year-old Omar, whose last name isn’t being used for security reasons, that nightmare was a reality. His son Shakeb was undernourished and very small for his age...