In this year’s autumn edition of Unity newsletter, we briefly highlighted a major international collaboration, the Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPFI), to reduce poverty across the globe. The SPFI ensures, ‘a basic set of essential social rights and transfers (cash and in kind) to provide a minimum income and livelihood security for all…’ What makes this initiative critical is because at present over 75% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social protections that allow them to deal with life’s risks. Partners in the initiative include the United Nations, UNHCR, International Labour Organisation (ILO), World Health Organisation and the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) of which ACWA is a member. Read More...

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