Children born in West African countries today are expected to reach 30 to 40 percent of their potential productivity in the future, due to poor health and education outcomes. Social safety net programs...
The largest cash transfer program in Jordan, operated by the National Aid Fund (NAF), regularly benefited approximately 100,000 households by the end of 2018 (almost 10 percent of the population. NAF provides...
This report presents the results of extensive research and collaborative efforts to improve Mongolia’s social protection system’s ability to adapt to covariate shocks and enhance herder resilience to climate...
This document collection explores the intersection of development, technology, and economic policy. It examines the role of identification systems in promoting social protection programs and facilitating...
Most disaster risk assessments use damages to physical assets as their central metric, often neglecting distributional impacts and the coping and recovery capacity of affected people. To address this shortcoming...
The Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) program in Chad, part of the 2024–2028 National Strategy, aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations to shocks like climate crises and refugee influxes...
Le programme de Protection Sociale Adaptative (PSA) au Tchad, inscrit dans la Stratégie Nationale 2024–2028, vise à renforcer la résilience des populations vulnérables face aux chocs tels que les crises...
This paper examines the current state of play and trends in social assistance in terms of spending, coverage, incidence, benefit size, and poverty reduction impacts using administrative data and household...
Mind the gap evaluates the progress in strengthening social protection and labor systems in emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in three areas: coverage, adequacy of benefits for the poor, and level...
The development objective of Second Social Protection Enhancement Project for West Bank and Gaza is to provide an integrated package of social services to select poor and vulnerable households and to strengthen...
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many school-age Ukrainians have sought refuge in other European countries, including Italy, raising the need to protect their human capital and integrate them into...
In the Sahel, Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is a set of social protection policies, systems, and programs that promote human capital, productivity, and resilience of the poorest and strengthen their...
Advances in technology have the potential to enhance social protection services delivery but come with risks, such as data privacy concerns, exclusion, and biases. To use digital technologies effectively...
The lack of a workable and accurate national sampling frame is one of the methodological constraints in conducting representative national surveys. It undermines policy and research efforts in many developing...
Crisis preparedness requires a comprehensive and cross-sectoral approach to risk management with targeted interventions across a range of different sectors. To provide a holistic assessment of preparedness...
The development objective is to improve the availability of data on the social protection systems for World Bank client countries and to generate evidence to better inform the design and operation of social...
Global peace has significantly declined over the past 15 years, with the 2023 Global Peace Index highlighting a notable erosion of peace since 2008, affecting 95 out of 163 countries. The impacts of conflict...
Ratings of Federally Administered Tribal Areas Temporarily Displaced Persons Emergency Recovery Project for Pakistan were as follows: outcome was highly satisfactory, Bank performance was highly satisfactory...