
Iffath Sharif
@iffath_sharif
Global Director, Social Protection and Jobs @WorldBank. Ending poverty entails a "hand up for a decent living" to all who need it. All tweets are personal.
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04-03-2021 15:27:46
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Social protection by Satellite Technology🛰️ #Niger, with support from IDA - World Bank, used early warning satellite data to identify drought-affected areas and intervene early with unconditional cash transfers. wrld.bg/sjjG50QY967 #IDAworks


Thoughtful addition to our understanding of the complexities around informality, and practical ideas for our work in WB Social Protection to support better labor market outcomes for millions of poor and vulnerable people!

More evidence on gender impact of cash transfers: secondary school attendance up by 12.4 percentage points; increases in girls’ academic aspirations; delays in early marriage; regular monitoring of weekly attendance boosts attendance sustainably! Congrats Abu Syeid Shonchoy

What an uplifting chat w/ Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) partners Dianne Calvi from Village Enterprise & Greg Chen from BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative during #WBGMeetings on unlocking the #job creation potential of the poor through #EconomicInclusion programs. Stay tuned for a recording!


Fantastic energy today around scaling up the power of social protection to end hunger and malnutrition! Thanks for your leadership Anne Beathe Tvinnereim 🇳🇴 and Daiho Fuji 🇯🇵. Looking to work w/ all partners to make progress. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Gates Foundation 1/2


Fruitful conversation with the Italian Ministry of Labor and #Socialinclusion Ministero Lavoro #MarinaCalderone on minimum income & jobs program case management, #GePI. We are excited to share this knowledge on digital social inclusion in Rome in May WB Social Protection learning event



Thrilled to have an important, timely discussion on health worker shortages in an era of greater international labor mobility. Tough, complex problems call for thoughtful leadership & collaboration, thank you Jim Campbell Juan Comesaña Pablo Uribe for this important journey together!


IDA Helps to Weave the Fabric of Global Social Protection worldbank.org/en/news/featur… via World Bank

A shout out to our fabulous WB Social Protection team in Riyadh working on cutting edge labor market reforms, supporting inclusive social policy that aims to support female labor force participation and persons with disabilities.


Part of the stellar team pulling together WB Social Protection 's inaugural SPJ Core Learning Academy and Solutions Services (CLASS). We have 35 countries across all regions in Rome joining us to discuss how to build digital social protection systems. Stay tuned for more


WB Social Protection CLASS on building digital adaptive social protection systems. Grateful to colleagues who travelled far to join us from across the globe, and those who helped organise and deliver the course. Grazie!


Today, Minister J Claude Musabyimana met with the World Bank team who briefed him on the progress of the "South-South Learning Forum" to be held in Kigali(6-13.12.2024) to discuss Economic Inclusion, mainly focusing on scaling up pathways to better jobs for the poor,towards graduation.




A new doctrine of three zeros - "a world of three zeros: zero net carbon emissions, zero wealth concentration and zero unemployment", says Muhammad Yunus. Couldn't agree more! economist.com/by-invitation/… from The Economist

Social protection for 500 million poor and hungry by 2030 - let's get it done WB Social Protection !
