#Tanzania 🇹🇿 is struggling with the financing of its national #healthinsurance scheme, which is millions of dollars in debt (theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/a…) and facing disputes about payments to private healthcare providers (theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/t…)

Did you miss last week's socialprotection.org webinar about how PRESTO updated the TRANSFORM training platform to address gender- and disability-sensitive #socialprotection in #Africa ? Watch the recording here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=AkFbva…

💻 Do you want to deepen your understanding of digital transformations in #socialprotection ? ITCILO offers an online course on this topic from 29 April - 14 June 2024. Learn more and register here by 26 April: itcilo.org/courses/e-lear…

Great event coming up tomorrow morning on #socialprotection in #Uganda 🇺🇬! Register to attend the virtual event below 👇

📢 Every person has the #RightToSocialSecurity . We've joined forces with 96 orgs at #CSPF24 to urge World Bank & IMF to support policies aligned with human rights and provide #SocialSecurityForAll : socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org/2024/04/world-…

🎙️ How can #socialprotection programs best meet the needs of older workers in the informal sector? This episode of WIEGO's Informal Economy Podcast dives into this question with examples from Southeast Asia pandora.com/podcast/descri…

How can #socialprotection support livelihoods and health systems in #Ethiopia 🇪🇹? Tune in to this IFPRI webinar on Weds, 17 April to find out! ifpri.org/event/deepenin…

Using #socialprotection to promote better childhood #nutrition is a smart investment! 'Every US$1 invested in malnutrition interventions yielding US$3 in returns across countries in the Global South,' writes Olivia Claxton 👇

Over 28,000 households have been added to #Kenya ’s 🇰🇪 #cashtransfer programme for people w/ disabilities (the-star.co.ke/news/2023-12-0…) - but the programme has been criticised for excluding others with less severe forms of disability (kenyanews.go.ke/baringo-plwds-…)

Can #Tanzania 🇹🇿 afford to implement a universal pension scheme? The gov't is hesitant (thechanzo.com/2024/01/16/can…), despite positive results of a costing exercise in 2010, and the success of the universal pension introduced in Zanzibar in 2016 (ilo.org/africa/media-c…)

🎙️ The UNICEF Innocenti team is back with a great new podcast series on gender-responsive and age-sensitive #socialprotection , called the GRASSP podcast. Check it out here 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uni…

It’s time to think about #childcare as a complement to #cashtransfers ! This study from #Uganda 🇺🇬 shows that women who were given vouchers for childcare or an equivalent 💵 transfer were able to earn more from self employment while the child was in daycare g2lm-lic.iza.org/publications/w…

Why did some potential beneficiaries of GiveDirectly’s UCT program in #Kenya 🇰🇪 turn down the money in 2016? This article shows that “free” money isn’t free from politics, as local political tensions sowed mistrust of the program rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/…

💵 Research funding alert! J-PAL has opened a new round of funding for randomized controlled trials of #socialprotection programs around the world. Researchers must be currently affiliated with J-PAL or have been invited to apply. Apply by 4 April 2024 povertyactionlab.org/initiative/soc…