Monday, March 20, 2023
The World Bank, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) have announced an integrated new open-source software package to improve the management of social protection and...
Monday, January 2, 2023
Crisis situations call for rapid assistance – without a lot of red tape. This was clearly illustrated recently by the flood disaster in Pakistan: the floods in August 2022 did not affect only those people who already relied on state support, they also...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Around four million people have found refuge in Turkey since the war in Syria began. The conditions there are difficult. Towns and communities are overstretched, and there are few opportunities to earn a legal income. One of these refugees is Ibrahim...
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Monday, June 25, 2018
Applications are open to the International Master of Science in Social Protection (MScSP)! It is the first joint academic program between European and Asian universities in the area of social protection with complementary curricula. ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
World Water Day on 22 March serves to remind people that clean water cannot be taken for granted. In Mali, for example, over 40 per cent of the population has no access to clean drinking water and only one in five has access to sanitation. This is also...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Illness as a poverty trap: many people in India live with the constant threat of falling into poverty if they become sick. Over 90 per cent of the Indian population work informally – without any employment contract. Consequently, they have no social...
Monday, August 14, 2017
A drywall apprenticeship or a Star Wars tour guide: An employment fund is implementing a wide array of projects designed to improve job opportunities for Tunisia’s young people. Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The Indonesian Government would therefore like to foster sustainable economic growth and societal cohesion. This includes insuring all citizens against livelihood-threatening risks – such as disease. For this reason, the government introduced the world’s...
Monday, May 15, 2017
Over 70 per cent of poor people in sub-Saharan Africa depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. For that reason, measures to help small farmers to achieve higher incomes are particular important for economic development in Africa.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Since early November 2016, 15 young men have been learning to use welding equipment at the Jiner vocational training centre in northern Iraq. Most of the group are Syrians now living in Dohuk province as refugees. Others are Yazidis who fled the Sinjar...