Universal Social Protection

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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Young women at Mbera Refugee Camp in Mauritania attend an awareness campaign about education

The power of social protection to support displaced people

April 29, 2024 / 10 minutes of reading

Could inclusion in national social protection schemes be a more sustainable response to forced displacement, benefiting both host countries and people driven from their homes by complex crises?

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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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IDPoor interview in Ratankiri Province, June 2020

Social assistance ‘on demand’ in Cambodia

August 8, 2022 / 13 minutes of reading

Quicker and more flexible than ever, IDPoor is ready to deliver in times of shock

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How Nepal’s bold new social security system inspired a delegation from Bangladesh

March 9, 2022 / 7 minutes of reading

The comprehensive social security measures Nepal introduced for formal sector workers raised the interest of neighbouring Bangladesh, a country on the brink of reaching middle-income status. With the support of German development cooperation, a Bangladeshi delegation undertook a study tour to Nepal and this resulted in rich learnings, for both sides.

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