Poverty in rural areas is generated and exacerbated by highly heterogeneous employment arrangements; high levels of unemployment and underemployment; poor-quality and unproductive jobs; unsafe work and insecure income; lack of access to services; and exclusion...

Work area: Social Protection and Resilience

Given the imminent challenges climate change poses for poverty reduction and sustainable development, the need for coherent and integrated climate risk management approaches that address the underlying causes of vulnerability – and that simultaneously increase...

Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or...

Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or...

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...