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Mongolia: President asks Prime Minister to cooperate in providing MNT 1 million support to each household

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 15:03
The government of Mongolia, on April 8, Thursday, decided to impose a nationwide strict lockdown between April 10 and 25 by moving into the Red Level of heightened state of emergency readiness in order to contain the rising spread of COVID-19 in the country and also to provide a one-time cash grant of MNT 300,000 to each of Mongolia’s around 3.3 million population. 
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Mongolia: ADB approves $73m loan to improve social welfare support

Submitted by cambrosio on Wed, 03/24/2021 - 15:17

devdiscourse.com (23.03.2021)

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $73 million loan to improve social welfare support for the poor and vulnerable, especially women and children, to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Mongolia.

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Mongolia, Pakistan: Social protection reduces disaster risk for the poor

Submitted by fabbri on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 09:50

ReliefWeb (05.07.2018) The role that safety nets and social protection programmes can play in reducing disaster risk features prominently on the agenda of the 2018 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) this week. A panel comprised of development and humanitarian actors, with senior representatives of the disaster management authorities from Mongolia and Pakistan, put forward a convincing case for greater investment in social protection policies and programmes.

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