worldbank.org (14.03.2016) Uruguay stands out in Latin America and the Caribbean for the significant and early progress it achieved in terms of social protection.
Les Echos (15.03.2016) Le déficit du régime général a été ramené à 6,6 milliards d’euros en 2015. Les rentrées de cotisations sociales ont été meilleures que prévu.
Ahram Hebdo (09.03.2016) Une nouvelle loi destinée au monde agricole permet désormais d'alléger le fardeau financier des soins de santé des populations paysannes. Elles sont souvent frappées par des maladies difficilement curables à cause notamment du maniement de pesticides. Visite.
Pulse (14.03.2016) This paper traces key social protection programs since 2013 as presented by the President in the State of the Nation addresses and links the outputs as described by the President to the outcomes achieved.
ilo.org (14.03.2016) New ILO study highlights huge decent work deficits for domestic workers throughout the world.
The Eagle Online (11.03.2016) The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has expressed optimism that the present administration would achieve Universal Health Coverage.
Eleven Myanmar (09.03.2016) With the aim to implement the Universal Health Coverage programme for rural people, the Health Ministry is building 78 rural healthcare centres across Myanmar in cooperation with the Three Millennium Development Goal Fund (3 MDG).
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (04.03.2016) Enhancing social protection is an immediate priority for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Cambodia. One of the major goals of the SDGs is to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. Cambodia’s historical success in pro-poor growth over the last decade sheds light into several challenges that growth, as defined from an economic perspective, has failed to sufficiently address, including chronic poverty, child poverty, inequality and malnutrition.
effective-states.org (08.03.2016) Forthcoming ESID research on the politics of social protection shows that crises have been central drivers of social protection expansion in Ethiopia, and elsewhere.
FAO (01.03.2016) This study forms part of seven country case studies carried out as part of the FAO project “Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection”. Ghana was selected as one of the countries because of its emerging social protection agenda and the presence of a now well-established National Social Protection Strategy, along with the growing importance at policy level attached to issues of coherence and coordination.
