Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA), in partnership with the European Union (EU), UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO), launched the country’s National Disability Allowance (NDA). The allowance is a social grant that will...
Monday, May 23, 2022
Making ends meet in the Gaza Strip, which has been under closure since 2007, is hard enough. But protracted conflict and violence create new setbacks in the lives of the Gaza Strip’s children.
That’s why UNICEF and its partners, the Palestinian...
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Asia, Palestinian Territory
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The Government of Ghana launched the LEAP 1000 pilot – a ‘cash plus’ programme – targeted at pregnant women and those with infants living in poor households in 2015. The motivation of the pilot was to support children during the first 1000 days...
Monday, May 9, 2022
Ma Nilar’s husband Ko San used to be able to support her and their three children with the income he earned as a motorbike taxi driver in Hlaing Thar Yar, the country’s most populous township in Yangon. But that was before the lockdowns caused by...
Thursday, March 24, 2022
O Brasil precisa investir em políticas de proteção social perenes e de longo prazo para efetivamente reduzir, de maneira sustentável, a pobreza infantil. O estudo “Pobreza Infantil Monetária no Brasil – Impactos da pandemia na renda de famílias com...
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Cash transfers and other humanitarian assistance are providing a lifeline for families facing multiple threats to their health and well-being.
Monday, December 6, 2021
In this blog, we summarize five studies completed in the last two years that examine impacts of cash, cash-for-work and cash plus programmes on both violent discipline of children and male intimate partner violence against women (IPV) from diverse LMICs...
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Africa, Mali, Rwanda, America, Colombia, Asia, Bangladesh, Philippines
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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
A common fear among policymakers is that government-provided benefits for households with young children – including cash transfers – may increase incentives to have children, to gain or maintain program eligibility. This is a topic we’ve had our eyes on...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
UNICEF's cash transfer programme has played a key played a key role in helping children access education, suggests a new study released today on maximizing the impact of cash transfers for vulnerable adolescents in Jordan.