Social protection and labor programs help households and workers manage crises, escape poverty, navigate transitions, and seize employment opportunities. Despite recent progress, three in four people ...

Marcelina Ngandu, a widowed mother of five in Zambia, receives monthly cash transfers that she invests in her small business. Every two months, Marcelina Ngandu collects her cash transfer from the ...

Social-protection programs are supposed to do just what the name implies: protect those segments of society that are most in need. Demanding that beneficiaries effectively renounce their rights to ...