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Rural areas are less covered by social insurance mechanisms than urban areas; however, in West Africa (as in other regions in the world), social assistance programmes often cover more people in rural areas than in...
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Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability of digital technologies to lower administrative costs, improve data accuracy, quality and transparency and facilitate monitoring of social protection delivery became clear. However, these technologies may also exacerbate...
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Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
In recent years, the social protection sector has made great strides in strengthening registries and information systems, in an effort to expand and improve the delivery of ben- efits and services to the diverse target...
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Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
Country: Brazil
The Unemployment Insurance for Small-scale Fishers programme, or “Seguro-Defeso”, is related to one of the fisheries management measures in Brazil, namely the closed fishing season or “Defeso”, which seeks to ensure the conservation of exploited...
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Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
The aim of the guidance note on elimination of child labour in agriculture through social protection is to enable practitioners at national, regional and global levels to adapt social protection systems to contribute actively to...