Social Health Protection

Empowering Girls in the Shadow of K2: How Nutrition Education Sparks Change

December 1, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Supported by the German Government through GIZ, the SOPRAN initiative is helping adolescent girls in Skardu (Pakistan) understand nutrition, improve their health, and adopt stronger eating habits. But the impact goes deeper: as girls begin making informed choices, they also gain the confidence to express their needs, influence decisions at home, and guide their peers. Through stories like Adila’s, the article shows how nutrition education is not only strengthening health but also nurturing a quiet shift in behaviour and voice—one that is gradually reshaping families and communities.

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Fighting Anaemia with Bread and Tablets

November 6, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Across Pakistan, a quiet revolution is taking place in schools, homes, and community mills. Through the SOPRAN initiative, the Government of Pakistan, the German Government, the Gates Foundation, and partners including BISP, Nutrition International, CERP, and WFP are tackling anaemia among adolescent girls with fortified wheat flour, iron tablets, and nutrition education.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the Edge: Navigating Disaster Risks & the Need for Adaptive Social Protection

September 15, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faces escalating climate risks — from glacial lake outburst floods to cloudbursts and landslides — that strike with increasing frequency and severity. This article explores how stronger disaster risk management and adaptive social protection can help the province safeguard vulnerable communities and break the cycle of loss.

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SEEG and partners tackle the Mpox outbreak in East-DRC: Responding to a public health emergency in a conflict area

August 28, 2025 / 8 minutes of reading

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spent over three decades in a balancing act between political powers, armed conflicts and subsequent humanitarian and health challenges. Unfortunately, the situation today is no different, with multiple conflicts threatening already vulnerable populations in the eastern regions, at the center of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Her Money, Her Control

August 22, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

Discover how the Benazir Income Support Programme, with support from the EU and Germany, is empowering women across Pakistan through Digital Social Protection Wallets — giving them secure, dignified access to what is rightfully theirs and moving the country toward a cashless future.

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Immunising a nation: South Africa lays the groundwork for an adult vaccination programme

August 8, 2025 / 9 minutes of reading

As part of its new national immunisation strategy, South Africa is adopting a life-course vaccination approach. This shift will protect people of all ages from vaccine preventable diseases while also strengthening preparedness for future pandemics.

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Why Investing in Health Has Never Been More Important

May 7, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

Key insights from the BMZ High-Level Dialogue “The Case for Investing in Health – NOW!” with Parliamentary State Secretary Niels Annen

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openIMIS powers Cameroon’s long-term vision for universal health coverage

August 6, 2024 / 12 minutes of reading

Cameroon has adopted the digital public good openIMIS to bring together different health financing schemes in one digital UHC platform. This is improving scheme efficiency, transparency and governance, and extending access to health services for those in need.

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A first for Senegal, as social health insurance is extended to artisans

June 24, 2024 / 9 minutes of reading

Informal sector workers often earn low and irregular wages, lack protection and face difficulties in accessing adequate basic services. As part of Senegal’s labour reforms, Germany is supporting a social protection pilot which could be extended to cover the whole informal sector

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Launch of Phase 1 UHC in Bertoua, Eastern Region, Cameroon.

Thinking and working politically to realise Universal Health Coverage: Insights from Cameroonian-German cooperation

February 8, 2024 / 9 minutes of reading

Cameroon embarked on a new Universal Health Coverage journey in 2023, the foundations for which have been laid over many decades. By adopting a political economy lens, German Development Cooperation has leveraged limited resources to great effect.

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