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Digitalising Social Protection: Three lessons learnt

Digitalising Social Protection: Three lessons learnt

Article
Editors' Spotlight

The Capacity4dev editorial team worked with INTPA.G4 and provides lessons learnt from the INTPA.D4-funded paper “Digital Social Protection: e-solutions for basic service delivery”.

Worldwide
Africa
Togo
+3
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Digitalisation
Big Data
Internet access
+3
Mobile technology
Social Protection and Inclusion
Social Protection policies

Team Europe - Mieux travailler ensemble pour une coopération pour le développement efficace

Article
Voices & Views

En 2011, les Principes de Busan ont défini ce qui fait une coopération au développement efficace et de qualité dans le monde. Cependant, au cours des dix années qui ont suivi l'APD de Busan (Aide publique au développement), les...

Worldwide
Africa
Togo
+3
Ethiopia
Mozambique
Rwanda
Development Effectiveness

Team Europe - Working better together for effective development cooperation

Article
Voices & Views

In 2011, the Busan Principles defined what makes good-quality, effective development cooperation worldwide. However, in the ten years since Busan ODA (Official Development Assistance), programmes have become more fragmented and...

Worldwide
Africa
Togo
+3
Ethiopia
Mozambique
Rwanda
Development Effectiveness

Dans les pas de la programmation conjointe au Togo

Article
Voices & Views

Le Togo, l'un des plus petits pays d'Afrique, bordé par le Ghana, le Bénin et le Burkina Faso, a signé avec l'UE, avec l'Allemagne et la France, un document de programmation conjointe pour la période 2014-2020. Vincent Vire, chef...

Africa
Togo
Development Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness
Joint implementation
+1
Joint programming

Views from the Field: Q&A with Vincent Vire, EU Head of Cooperation in Togo

Article
Voices & Views

Togo, one of Africa’s smallest counties, signed a joint programming document with the EU, Germany and France for the period 2014-2020. Vincent Vire shared insights and lessons learnt about this mechanism with Capacity4dev, which...

Africa
Togo
Development Effectiveness

Views from the Field: In Conversation with the EU Ambassador to the Philippines

Article
Voices & Views

The Philippines, comprising over 7,000 Pacific islands, has wide gaps in living standards and opportunities and faces numerous development challenges. EU Ambassador Franz Jessen explains how the EU is working with the Duterte...

Asia
Philippines
Civil Society
Health
Human Rights

Putting Reproductive Rights at the Centre of Development

Article
Voices & Views

“To end the cycle of poverty and ensure sustainable development, you have to make sure women are in control of their sexual and reproductive health and rights [SRHR],” said Mangala Namasivayam from the Asian-Pacific Resource and...

Asia
Bangladesh
Philippines
Gender
Health

Integrating Scientific Information into Humanitarian Response

Article
Voices & Views

Traditionally humanitarian aid comes into play as an immediate response to provide lifesaving assistance in a natural or man-made disaster situation. Whereas, development practitioners work on increasing resilience to reduce the...

Africa
Togo
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
+3
Humanitarian Aid
Research for Development
Forests

The Land-Drugs Nexus

Article
Voices & Views

"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. And therein lies one of the...

Asia
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Agriculture & Rural Development
Fisheries

Working with Opportunity and Risk: Insight to EU Operations in Myanmar

Article
Voices & Views

The government-initiated reforms in Myanmar over the past three years have provided great opportunity for increased development engagement, but the context continues to require sensitive assessments of opportunities and risks. In...

Asia
Myanmar
Democracy
Governance & Corruption
Human Rights