Wednesday, December 8, 2021
he Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $603 million results-based lending program to strengthen and expand social protection programs in Pakistan. Using conditional cash transfers, the program will support the implementation of Ehsaas,...
Friday, November 6, 2020
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A pandemic demands concerted efforts to quickly safeguard the world’s populations. But when the complex web...
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Africa, Liberia, Asia, Afghanistan, Laos
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
The World Bank has approved a $300-million financial package for human development in Pakistan, including a loan of $200 million to improve social and health indicators in about a dozen poorest districts of Punjab.The loan has been approved under the...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Initiatives such as comprehensive training and engaging with and mobilising communities have helped boost the performance of anganwadi centres in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, we found, as part of a project to document innovations in maternal and child...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
The 2018 Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) Report has revealed that, 156,452 households out of 184,125 in the Upper East Region do not benefit from government’s social protection programmes. The programmes include; LEAP, Free school uniforms...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend project (SWEDD) project is financed by the World Bank and implemented by the governments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. It aims to empower women and...
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Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
BLOG: In parts of the tropics, exposure to extreme temperature or rainfall in early life is associated with fewer years of schooling in later childhood. As climate change leads to increasingly severe heat waves, floods, droughts, and hurricanes, it is...
Thursday, June 28, 2018
The World Bank said on Thursday it would provide up to $480 million in grant-based support to Bangladesh to address the needs of Rohingya refugees including health, education, water, sanitation and social protection.
Monday, June 12, 2017
A project targeting some 30,000 residents of Bissighin area located in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso are seeing the fruits of development initiatives resulting from a USD 100,000 Community Managed Fund project. Burkina Faso’s population...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Government of Uganda has today launched an Atlas that helps to monitor the delivery and impact of basic services for children and other vulnerable groups across Uganda.