Informes

Introduction One of the factors driving the steady shift towards employing technology is the rapid expansion of the mobile telecommunications system and its potential to reach even remote areas of the world. According to global statistics, there…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND The main objective of this market assessment was to determine market functionality and the feasibility of cash transfer modality (and use of mobile money) among refugee settlements (Kyangwali, Kyaka II, Rwamwanja and Koboko) proposed for…

By DAVID MUCHUI Members of the Elmolo community living on the shores of Lake Turkana in Marsabit County will have their purchasing power elevated thanks to the government’s cash transfer programme. Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) operating in…

Each lean season WFP gives vulnerable Malawian households food assistance. For the first time, WFP this year gave out vouchers for the nutrition component of the project which allowed nursing mothers and mothers of young children…

Oxfam, UNICEF and local partner Hijra developed a mobile phone based health promotion project in Somalia to support Polio prevention and control which began in November 2013. The project was implemented with two complementary components: pre-emptive…

Author: Isaiah Esipisu TURKANA, Kenya, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the government of Kenya began giving cash instead of food aid to poor people in Kenya's drought-stricken North Eastern region, the aim was to help…

In Summary •Mr Njoroge said the Sh50,000 they were being given was not enough to resettle them, considering they had been away for seven years. •They said they were being offered Sh10,000 cash when they board buses to…

HARARE, May 6 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has asked for financial support from the West for the first time in a decade at a meeting of Western diplomats and international lenders. Read the full article

Mary Taruvinga struggled to make ends meet when her husband died in 2010. Without warning, she was faced with the daunting responsibility of providing for four children, without any external support. She was not alone. In her village,…

By Richard Nyamanhindi “I cannot walk properly,” says 84 year old Mbuya Matajwa Mwanza a beneficiary of the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer programme at Marahwa Business Centre in Mashonaland West in Zimbabwe. “It is completely bent on its…