Social protection must be seen as an investment in communities’ resilience. That was one of the key messages coming out of Cultivate Africa, a two-day online event (17-18 November) on COVID-19 response and recovery in Africa organized by the African Union Commission and attended by more than 1400 participants. Recordings from event...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) participó en la Conferencia Virtual “Transformando la crisis del COVID-19 en oportunidad: ¿Cuál es el futuro de la protección social?", organizada por la plataforma socialprotection.org, entre los días 5 y 8 de octubre del 2020.

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....