Sentences with phrase «social protection measures»

Insurance programs, social protection measures, and disaster risk management may enhance long - term livelihood resilience among poor and marginalized people, if policies address poverty and multidimensional inequalities [Center for Global Development, 4/1/14]

Insurance programs, social protection measures, and disaster risk management may enhance long - term livelihood resilience among poor and marginalized people, if policies address poverty and multidimensional inequalities.

PLHIVs have been also been helped to access social welfare and social protection measures; such efforts have greatly improved their lives.

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(May 3, 2018) Telecompaper reports Germany's Conference of State and Federal Data Protection Authorities has released the measures it wants Facebook and social media networks to take following the Cambridge Analytica revelations.

But a new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they're less likely to smoke and be obese as adolescents.

Participants from various IBFAN organizations, aid agencies, non-governmental organizations, social service organizations, health care workers, policy makers and representatives from WHO and UNICEF, discussed the protection of breastfeeding and the establishment of breastfeeding cultures as vital components in measures dealing with this topic.

$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures

Mrs Della Sowah, Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection who led Ghana's delegation, said Government has taken measures to promote positive cultural values and traditions and to discourage those that are inconsistent with the rights, duties and obligations contained in the Children's Charter.

10/14/17 — As part of its drive to overturn the Obama - era Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency recently released significantly lower estimates of the so - called social cost of carbon dioxide, a measure widely used to weigh the value of actions aimed at stopping climate change.

Long and Iles (1997) point to the US Department of Transportation's Climatic Impact Assessment Program (aimed not at the greenhouse effect but aircraft emissions) for producing, in 1975, «the first assessment to focus on social and economic measures,» (p. 6) and the 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency study as «the first extensive appearance of an economic analysis of impacts.»

Global Witness is calling for a transparent allocation process for the remaining rights, improved environmental and social protection in contracts and laws and greater capacity and political will to implement these measures.

It is up to the national court to assess the specific nature of the social context and concrete circumstances of obvious social tension owing to a concentration of a large number of beneficiaries of international protection in receipt of social security benefits, in order to decide on the proportionality of the measure.

In the context of such a scheme in Germany which had been negotiated by the social partners as an important element of an overall scheme to eradicate an old age - based payment scheme which was about to become illegal, they held that the protection of the established rights of one category of persons can in general justify a measure restrictive of equality if that restriction does not go beyond what is necessary for that protection.

It added, that «before such measures are adopted, there is no provision of EU law which requires that a category of persons who already benefit from supplementary social protection, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, should be deprived of it» (ibid.)

States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The assessment protocol included the main attachment figure's sociodemographic data, psychopathology, and dissociation; history of youth protection services, and child's adjustment measures (general, internalizing, externalizing and social problems, and dissociative symptoms).

Mothers / teachers completed measures of risk / protection and social, adaptive, and school functioning in 6 - to 12 - year - olds with a diagnosed ASD (N = 238).