Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
BSS, Rajshahi :More than 10,500 households from the extreme poor and underprivileged communities have got the path of eradicating their long-lasting poverty through self-managed savings and credit activities to some extent in Naogaon town.Most of them are now enjoying taste of self-reliance through diversified anti-poverty interventions. Side by side with …
In 2011 the Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs (BoLSA), UNICEF and a number of donors including Irish Aid initiated the Tigray Social Cash Transfer Programme (TSCTP) in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The programme aimed to reduce poverty and hunger in extremely poor and labour-constrained households.
This year the world will agree new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to shape global development policy until 2030. Achieving these goals would have transformative effects, eradicating the scourge of global poverty and expanding opportunities for many millions worldwide. Success will require political leadership backed by financial commitments. This report has …
China should have no more poor counties – at least by government standards – within 15 years, a top official on poverty alleviation says. Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, told the Southern Metropolis News that hundreds of counties in China …
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Several infrastructural projects, as well as human development activities, are slated to be undertaken this year under the Poverty Reduction Programme IV, with an allotment of J$100 million. The funds have been provided in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project …
The performance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan was debated for its stupendous performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010. Based on a large representative primary survey, this paper argues that the decline in performance of this scheme …
A new report released by the World Bank said Ethiopia had registered remarkable progress in eradicating poverty during the past decade. Considered one of Africa's poorest nations, Ethiopia has reduced poverty by 33 per cent since 2000, exceeding the government's previous target of 22 per cent, the World Bank found …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the government, Spanish government and ILO have joined hands to implement a new project - SWAPNO - to help the poorest women move out of extreme poverty, reports UNB. Spanish Ambassador in Dhaka Luis Tejada and UNDP Country Director Pauline Tamesis discussed the various …
While Pakistan's poverty reduction strategy paper emphasises microfinance as an important development tool, the sector is well on its way to becoming an important part of the country's mainstream banking industry, focusing more on achieving commercial viability and a resulting dilution in the sector's social mission, i e, poverty eradication. …
The UAE’s share of donations to fight poverty worldwide has reached Dh8.9 billion over the past three years, said Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister for International Cooperation and Development. “The humanitarian vision of President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, and Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed …
China vows to reduce the number of rural people in poverty by 10 million this year, on the eve of China Poverty Alleviation Day. Zheng Wenkai, vice-minister of an office for poverty alleviation and development under China's State Council, said on Tuesday that China achieved great success in helping nearly …
Welfare and Social Services Minister Meir Cohen and Eli Alalouf, head of the Committee to Fight Poverty, announced on Monday the intended allocation of NIS 1.7 billion for the implementation of the committee’s recommendations to fight poverty in the upcoming year. “For me, this is a historic and important moment. …
KARACHI: The Sindh government appreciated the European Union (EU) for supporting the government in implementation on its five-year poverty reduction programme ‘Sindh Union Council and Community Economic Strengthening Support’ (SUCCESS). EU offered to contribute one-third of the total cost of the programme costing Rs 8 billion as grant, out of …
