Thursday, March 7, 2024
The Waai (meaning “awareness” in Arabic) Program is a behavioral awareness and change platform launched in 2020 and a key intervention of the Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program (TKP). It aims to reach Egypt’s vulnerable citizens on 12 interlinked...
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Every two months, Marcelina Ngandu collects her cash transfer from the Zambian government and invests it in her small doughnut business. “I buy baking flour and make doughnuts for selling,” says Marcelina, a widow, who uses the money she makes to support...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
In Mali, the Jigisemejiri Emergency Social Safety Net Program is protecting the poorest and most vulnerable rural households from the impact of economic shocks and other crises. Since the program’s launch in 2013, the Government of Mali, with...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
In 2020, South Sudan witnessed the first locust invasion in over 70 years. The locusts destroyed crops and grazing land in many parts of the country, significantly affecting the incomes and food security of thousands of people, the majority of whom...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Over the course of the year, I reviewed, synthesized, and shared 631 resources on social protection. Because of the scale and quality of research, selecting the most salient or interesting materials is a daunting task fraught with dilemmas and tough...
Monday, October 3, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis highlighted how digital public infrastructure (DPI) can play a critical role for governments to deliver social assistance quickly and safely. DPI not only allowed governments to reach an unprecedented number of new...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
The numbers are stark: this year, 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance, 39 million more than last year (UNOCHA 2022). Conflict, major flooding, and droughts have increased globally over the past decade, causing widespread displacement....
Monday, August 29, 2022
It’s 2pm on a sunny and humid afternoon in Fiji. Our team has just arrived in Sigatoka, a seaside town on a well-traveled section of the Queens Road, the main road that loops around the coast of Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu. We arrive in Nadroumai...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Over the past 30 months we have been carefully tracking countries’ unprecedented social protection responses to Covid-19. But what are we learning from such wealth of experiences? A new paper – Cash Transfers in Pandemic Times: Evidence,...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Creating new jobs is one of the biggest challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. Because employment in these countries is mostly in micro and small enterprises (MSEs), targeted interventions such as training, microcredit, cash grants, business...