Thursday, January 19, 2023
Kenya has become a poster child for digitally driven development. Known as “Silicon Savannah,” the country has a multi-billion-dollar tech industry that routinely produces startups. Among its most prominent successes is M-Pesa. Launched in 2007, the...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
When the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures to cushion the blow. By May 2021, a total of 3,333 such schemes had been planned...
Monday, May 23, 2022
The government has spent Sh156 Billion in cash transfers to 800,033 senior citizens aged 70 years and above across the country in the last eight years.
Friday, May 13, 2022
Social transfers are increasingly seen within the development industry as the go-to response to poverty, inequality, and economic crises, a trend that has only been reinforced by the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This spread and expansion of...
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Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Asia, Bangladesh, Nepal
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Thanks to a recently introduced law on funding for people with disabilities, the World Food Programme is working with Wajir County authorities to support people like 8-year-old Ikran.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Social Protection in Kenya has continued to grow in leaps and bounds since 2004. Social Protection interventions aim at ensuring that all Kenyans live in dignity and are able to meet their social and economic needs. A primary driver of these...
Thursday, October 28, 2021
BRAC’s Graduation approach empowers women to challenge harmful gender norms that impede upon their independence, dignity, and aspirations. Gender norms are social norms defining acceptable and appropriate actions for women and men in a given group or...
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Africa, Kenya, Asia, Bangladesh
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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...
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Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Innocent Tshilombo, who spent 10 years at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, describes how attaching conditions to cash and voucher assistance can seriously impact its effectiveness.
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Thursday, September 9, 2021
Conventional wisdom tends to run towards giving it to the woman. But a recent paper (ungated) by Laurens Cherchye, Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Bram De Rock, Charlotte Ringdal and Frederic Vermeulen tells us it might not matter (at least in terms of nutrition...
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Global, Africa, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Europe, North Macedonia
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