Wednesday, May 5, 2021
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In recent years, governments across the continent have expanded social safety net programs in growing...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Most of the world’s poor live in rural areas, working mainly in smallholder agriculture. The pandemic threatens to expose—and exacerbate—gender differences in the constraints that farmers face. Such differences leave women particularly vulnerable to the...
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Africa, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The World Bank Group announced today the launch of the Mission Billion Challenge “WURI West Africa Prize” to seek innovative solutions that augment inclusion of informal workers in social protection ...
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Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger, Togo
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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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Friday, April 12, 2019
This IDA-financed project, with joint technical assistance from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), takes an innovative approach to modernizing Côte d’Ivoire’s social protection system while leveraging the country’s digital foundation to help...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Labor-intensive public works (LIPW) programs are a popular policy intended to provide temporary employment opportunities to vulnerable populations through work-intensive projects, such as the development and maintenance of local infrastructure, that do...
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Africa, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Tunisia
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Friday, April 14, 2017
CARE and Cargill’s partnership of more than fifty years is a testament to the values we share. Over the past eight years, this partnership has helped improve the lives of more than 300,000 people around the world. With Cargill’s support, CARE engages...
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Global, Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, America, Costa Rica, Asia, Indonesia
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
Les nouvelles, en ce début d’année 2017, sont plutôt bonnes pour les 5 000 premiers ménages bénéficiaires de la phase pilote du Projet Filets Sociaux Productifs, financé à hauteur de 25 milliards de FCFA sur cinq (05) ans par un prêt de la Banque...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Des experts venus de seize pays francophones d’Afrique se réunissent, du 17 au 21 mai, à Brazzaville où ils essayent de capitaliser leurs expériences dans la pratique des transferts sociaux monétaires, en vue de consolider les systèmes d’aide aux...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Senegal
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
This is not another post about the evidence for cash transfers (we have plenty of those, and you can read them all here and here). Rather, it’s about how cash transfers offer a useful lens to analyze the effectiveness of other development...
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Global, Africa, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Sierra Leone
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