The 2020-2022 World Social Protection Report noted that globally, only 46.9% of the population was effectively covered by at least one social protection benefit, and in Africa and Asia and the Pacific, this is even lower, at 17.4% and 44.1%, respectively. Evidence suggests that countries with better social protection policies and programmes are better at curbing the effects of the Triple Crisis, with overall positive effects on health, education, labour market outcomes, income inequality,…
Strengthening Capacity for evidence-based Social Protection Policies for responding to the triple global crisis in fuel, food and finance
Recipients: Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Senegal, Cambodia, Maldives
Partners: ESCAP, ECA, ILO
Donors: RB
Status: Active
Promoting climate-resilient agricultural cooperatives for rural small-holder farmers
Sixty per cent of the world’s poor live in sub-Saharan Africa and are overwhelmingly concentrated in the rural agricultural sector. Because their livelihoods are inextricably linked to natural resources, environmental hazards and climate stresses disproportionally expose them to greater risks of deprivation, asset depletion, indebtedness, and further poverty. This project aims at supporting the design and implementation of legislation, policies or other measures, that promote the…
Recipients: Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana
Partners: Resident Coordinator Offices, UNCTs (FAO, ILO and UNDP), International Cooperative Alliance
Donors: RB
Status: Active