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 …
German Ambassador has promised that his government would provide a €6.6 million grant to strengthen the health insurance initiative of BISP. The German Ambassador to Pakistan Dr. Cyrill Nunn revealed this during his meeting with BISP Chairman Enver Baig at the BISP Secretariat on Monday. During the meeting, the Chairman …
BANK Alfalah and Acumen have partnered to launch a program entitled ‘Eradicating Poverty through Entrepreneurship in Pakistan’, based on a USD 40,000 grant as part of the Bank’s CSR program. The Press Conference was addressed by Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen, and Atif Bajwa, CEO, Bank Alfalah amongst …
Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee Draft Election Manifesto 2013. The Election Manifesto states "The Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee, in its Manifesto for Mizoram Assembly Elections in 2008, made a number of promises to the people of Mizoram. And according to the periodic evaluations conducted by the party over the last 54 …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $430 million equivalent loan to expand and strengthen Pakistan’s national social safety net programme, which is helping to lift millions of families out of poverty. Pakistan’s official poverty rate was 22.3pc in 2006 but since 2007 food and fuel price spikes, floods, and …
Praise comes five years after it described the programme as a ‘policy barrier’ to economic development and poverty alleviation For the beleaguered UPA government, here are some words of praise. The flagship rural employment guarantee scheme has comes in for praise from the World Bank, five years after it described …
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Wednesday the global development lender must work to halve extreme poverty in the next seven years if it is to reach a more ambitious target set for 2030. Kim in April set a goal to reduce the number of people around the …
India’s sheer size and poverty have meant that addressing the needs of its hundreds of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens has preoccupied Indian policymakers since independence. Unsurprisingly, the mix of strategies, the resulting policy instruments to undergird them and their relative effectiveness have been a matter of contentious debate.
Federal government has launched seven new schemes for poverty alleviation and employment across the country. Government has increased the allocation of cash support programme from Rs.44 billion for fiscal year 2012-13 to Rs.75 billion for fiscal year 2013-14 for poverty alleviation and employment. According to available document with APP, under …
A non-govt organisation will expend Tk.15 cr for development slum dwellers in 35 city wards of the port city in this fiscal under city partnership programs with city corporation . These amount will be spent for digging tube wells for pure drinking water for the dwellers, constructions of drains and …
The State Government has launched a three-pronged strategy to eradicate poverty through the Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM). The strategy includes social mobilisation for capacity building to increase income of the poor, extending bank linkages to create employment opportunities and enhance micro-finance to reduce vulnerability. The Mission has intensified its activities …
Government departments now use different standards to measure poverty Government departments differ with regard to standards for determining poverty-level, Mythili K. Rajendran, Managing Director and Principal Secretary, Tamil Nadu Rural Livelihood Mission, said here on Tuesday. At the coordination meeting convened to explain implementation of ‘Vision 2023’ through the Livelihood …
The World Bank has approved a US$500 million concessional credit to Bangladesh to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of Bangladesh’s major social safety net programs. The Safety Net Systems for the Poorest (SNSP) Project aims to benefit four million households, comprising 18 million poor people, by co-financing a portion …
The World Bank on Wednesday approved a US$500 million concessional credit to Bangladesh to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of Bangladesh’s major social safety net programs, reports UNB. The credit will support the Safety Net Systems for the Poorest (SNSP) Project which aims to benefit four million households, having …
India accounts for 19% of global maternal deaths, three-quarters of which come from nine states. In 2005, India launched a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), to reduce maternal mortality ratio (MMR) through promotion of institutional births. JSY is the largest CCT in the world. In the …
The draft of the upcoming 13th three-year plan prepared by the National Planning Commission (NPC) has targeted to reduce the poverty to 18 per cent from existing 23.8 per cent. The draft of the strategy of the 13th interim three-year-plan (2013 -2016), which was made public here Monday amidst a …
Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development has since inception been providing assistance to BPL families who are either houseless or having inadequate housing facilities for constructing a safe and durable shelter. This effort has been part of a larger strategy of the Ministry’s …
Thirty thousand ultra poor women, supported by a four-year cash-transfer project, have moved out of extreme poverty in the disaster prone areas of three northern districts of Bangladesh, a report revealed yesterday. The “Food Security for the Ultra Poor” (FSUP) project initially supplied each of the women with Tk 14,000 …
The World Bank has come out with a multi-billion ($12-20 billion) four-year plan aimed at bringing down poverty levels in seven low-income Indian States, where a majority of India’s poor live, to just 5.5 per cent in 2030 against 29.8 per cent in 2010. The seven low-income States are Bihar, …
The Finance Ministry said Friday that its spending on poverty relief in rural areas for 2012 surged 31.9 percent from a year earlier to 299.6 billion yuan ($47.79 billion). The funds were used to enhance agricultural production, improve people's living standards and support education, health care and social security, the …
