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14 February 2024

Inclusive Social Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Egypt

CAIRO, 14 February 2024 – Today, the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) concluded a roundtable discussion on “Inclusive Social Protection Systems for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Egypt”. The event brought together key government partners including the Ministries of Soci...
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29 April 2021

Improving social protection for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt

UNICEF and the IPC-IG joined efforts to prepare an advocacy paper on the topic of social protection for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. It brings to the fore Social Protection (SP) experiences from several countries to provide insights for a more inclusive and comprehensive SP system to migrants, refugees a...
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Press release
04 May 2021

UNICEF Egypt, IPC-IG and the Ministry of Social Solidarity join efforts to discuss inclusive social protection for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers

CAIRO, 29 April 2021 – Today, UNICEF in partnership with International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), organized a webinar titled “Inclusive Social Protection for Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers: Myth or Reality?” and released the corresponding research report on inclusive social protection fro...
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Press release
20 November 2024

#DiveseButUnited: National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM), UN agencies and PROSPECTS Programme launch social inclusion campaign phase two

CAIRO, 20 November 2024 – The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) and the PROSPECTS program—a collaboration between the Netherlands, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the International Finance Corporation (IFC...
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Programme
22 May 2018

Social Policy and Data

Poverty is widespread in Egypt and disproportionally affects children by lowering their chances of survival and development, with long lasting effects. In 2012/13, around 9.2 million Egyptian children (aged 0-17) were living in extreme monetary poverty. An additional 7.5 million children were vulnerable to falling...
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Press release
28 May 2018

Protecting Children from Cyberbullying

Cairo, 10 April 2018 – Under the hashtag #ImAgainstBullying , the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) launched today a joint social media campaign to protect children from cyberbullying. The campaign is under the umbrella of the joint Programme: “Expanding Access to Education and Protection of At ...
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Programme
31 May 2018

Child Protection

Many children in Egypt suffer various forms of violence, exploitation, human trafficking and inadequate family care. There is a widespread use of violence as a socially acceptable disciplinary practice. The 2014 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) shows that 93 percent of children aged 1 to 14 years old have been expo...
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Programme
29 April 2018

Child protection

Many children in Egypt suffer various forms of violence, exploitation, human trafficking and inadequate family care. There is a widespread use of violence as a socially acceptable disciplinary practice. The 2014 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) shows that 93 percent of children aged 1 to 14 years old have been expo...
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Press release
26 June 2018

The National Council for Childhood & Motherhood Launches the ‘Policy for Action’ Series with a Policy Brief on ‘Ending Child Marriage’

Cairo, 26 June 2018 – According to 2017 Egypt census data, nearly 1 in every 20 girls between the age of 15 to 17 years are either currently or have been previously married, as stated in the National Policy Brief on ‘Ending Child Marriage’, produced by The National Council for Childhood & Motherhood Child Righ...
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Report
15 December 2024

Multidimensional poverty in Egypt: an in-depth analysis

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the prevalence, distribution, and severity of multidimensional poverty across Egypt. The overarching objective of the national MPI is to provide a comprehensive social policy framework, enabling policymakers to reduce poverty in all its forms. More specifically, the obj...
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06 November 2018

Child Protection Programming for Children on the Move in Egypt

UNICEF Egypt has been working with Children on the Move since 2013, when the arrival of large numbers of Syrian refugees in Egypt prompted UNICEF to adapt its programming to respond to the crisis. UNICEF, along with UNHCR, is the co-chair of the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) established to respond to the r...
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27 May 2018

Protecting Children from Cyberbullying

What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying involves posting or sending electronic messages (sometimes anonymously), including text, pictures or videos, aimed at harassing, threatening or spreading rumors on another person via a variety of digital platforms such as online social networks, chat rooms, blogs, instant messa...
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