The Gender-sensitive social protection toolkit is now available in two additional language versions: Spanish and French Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s economic empowerment. However,...

The COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/Arab States region, with 913,226 confirmed cases and 22,500 associated deaths as of 6 July 2020. It is estimated that an additional 8.3 million people in the Arab region could fall into poverty (based on pretransfer estimates). Against this...

This information note aims at outlining what are child labour and social protection, how social protection can significantly contribute to eliminating child labour in agriculture, and what are FAO’s planned efforts to leverage on social protection interventions to generate knowledge and increase impact at country level on child labour elimination....

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided 4 500 drought-affected pastoral households in the Somali region of Ethiopia with unconditional cash transfers to meet their immediate needs and invest in productive activities. Each beneficiary household received 80 USD transfers between December 2019 and January 2020. Households with...

29/01/2020 - Today, the Government of Rwanda and One UN in Rwanda have launched a new project aimed to support Rwanda’s efforts towards ending poverty in all its forms and reduce malnutrition. The 2 year programme “Accelerating Integrated Policy Interventions to Promote Social Protection in Rwanda” will target the most vulnerable households...