5 July 2022 | 14:30 – 16:00 pm CEST  |  To join us on Zoom, please register here: https://bit.ly/3nhNAoh Can We Make Social Protection Programs More Cost-effective? Unpacking the psychological channels that underlie spillovers and impact heterogeneity in poverty “Graduation” Programs. With Michael R. Carter  Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics (University of California, Davis) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Poverty graduation programs...

Bangladesh - FAO organized a workshop aimed at exploring and strengthening the linkages between social protection and anticipatory action took place on the 18th of May, 2022, at the Ministry of Disaster Risk Management and Relief, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Mid- and senior-level representatives from various Ministries of the Government, German Red...

The UN Chief Executives Board launched the UN Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPF-I) in 2009 as one of its nine joint initiatives to address the global financial crisis. Thirteen years have passed since the SPF-I’s unveiling and the world is once again been mired in a global crisis of unprecedented...

24 MARCH - 2 PM With the global pandemic not being over yet, the next shock is already around the corner: skyrocketing prices in energy and food resulting from the war on Europe’s borders. As the most important producer of energy and staple crops such as wheat and corn, a supply...

The role of social protection in promoting sustainable fisheries: “Impact Evaluation of the Seguro Defeso in Brazil" that will take place on the 7 of december at 2:00 (Rome Time).   Organiser:  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO The Seguro-Defeso is a contributory social security measure that targets small-scale...