To reduce maternal and neo-natal deaths, India launched a cash transfer programme in 2005 that provides monetary incentives for women to give birth in health facilities instead of at home. While the ...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon, February 6 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency plans to expand a cash assistance programme utilizing ATM cards to 30,000 Syrian refugees by March after the recent completion of a pilot ...

When South Sudanese mother Florence Idiongo joined thousands of refugees fleeing to Kenya three years ago, she had to live in a plastic tent with 12 people, including her children, younger siblings ...

For many decades, arid and semi arid lands residents have depended heavily on food rations. Frail old women and men sitting under trees waiting for trucks are some of the images that visitors ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard M. Doro, says the country is shifting toward a more coordinated and results-driven approach to humanitarian response and ...

'rendered': 'The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard Doro, has said his visit to Imo State was to ascertain the beneficiaries of the Household Prosperity and ...

AMMAN — The UNHCR in Jordan on Wednesday announced the launch of the second phase of its cash assistance programme for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees, offering JD70 per person to families ...