"Along the second half of 2007, the Ministry
of Social Development and Fight against
Hunger took part in three technical missions
to Ghana to give assistance to the newest
and most significant Social Protection
Programme in this African country: the
Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP).
Ghana designed its National Social
Protection Strategy focusing on LEAP, which
is based on the Growth and Poverty
Reduction Strategy II (GPRS II) of the country."
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"The findings of this project reveal that gender influences migration, remittances and their relationship to local rural development in several ways. First of all, gender norms and sex-segregated labour markets have traditionally promoted and prioritized Filipino
women’s migration to Italy over the migration of their male counterparts. Female migration has been propelled by a care crisis in developed countries, such as Italy, which has opened up employment opportunities specifically for wome more...

Press Brief #2 - "The Egypt Human Development Report 2008 suggests that the battle today is no
longer between left or right ideologies but about which practical system can manage
and deliver better social justice through basic services and earning opportunities,
higher levels of transparency and accountability, and more freedom of expression.
The Report suggests that to create and to implement a system that delivers these
social goods will require new roles and responsibilities for more...