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CSSF Iraq The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) is a cross government fund that supports and delivers activity to tackle instability, prevent conflicts and respond to fragility. The CSSF operates in 70 countries, including Iraq. The CSSF Iraq programme delivers against 3 outcomes: The threat posed by terrorist actors is reduced by a coordinated state led security and governance apparatus. The state is more accountable, evidence-based and responsive with sufficient institutional capac...

strengthening UK capabilities CSSF Iraq Women, Peace and Security project: details Despite the essential role of women’s rights organisations (WROs) in the safeguarding of women and girls’ rights and security through service provision, policy, and advocacy, there remains a significant gap in international donor support to WROs in Iraq. Lack of funding to WROs working on WPS in Iraq and the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) was a key finding of Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) ...

Britains spending on overseas aid fell by almost three-quarters of a billion pounds last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. New statistics on the UKs international aid spending in 2020 show it declined by £712million to £14.5billion. The provisionjal figure is linked to the UKs Gross National Income (GNI) level and was therefore hammered by the economic disaster that was the pandemic in 2020, when UK PLC spent many months largely shuttered. The drop is the first decline in UK aid spend...

Bangkok Post newspaper. The SSO manages the Social Security Fund (SSF), which covers private sector workers. “The proposed changes are being considered because there are cases involving fund members who died two months after the old-age payments started being paid,” the English language daily quoted Ladda Sae Lee, director of the SSO’s benefits bureau, as saying, in a report recently. He says the SSO is proposing that the welfare law be amended to allow beneficiaries to be paid for 60 mo...

By: ONA Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik on Wednesday issued a Royal Decree, No. 33/2021, on systems of retirement and social security. Article (1) establishes a fund to be named “Social Security Fund”, to have a legal identity, enjoy financial and administrative independence and report to the Council of Ministers. Its system (bylaw) shall be issued under a Royal Decree. Article (2) establishes a fund to be named “Military And Security Services Retirement Fund”, to have a l...

04/05/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/04/2021 22:01 Double win for ComBank from Asiamoney magazine Adjudged Sri Lankas Best Bank for SMEs and Best Bank for CSR The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has won the awards of Best Bank for Small and Medium Enterprises and Best Bank for Corporate Social Responsibility for the second year in a row from Asiamoney Magazine, the top-ranking publication and authority on banking and capital markets in Asia. The award for Best Bank for SMEs recogni...

Double win for ComBank from Asiamoney magazine April, 1, 2021 Adjudged Sri Lanka’s ‘Best Bank for SMEs’ and ‘Best Bank for CSR’ The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has won the awards of ‘Best Bank for Small and Medium Enterprises’ and ‘Best Bank for Corporate Social Responsibility’ for the second year in a row from Asiamoney Magazine, the top-ranking publication and authority on banking and capital markets in Asia. The award for ‘Best Bank for SMEs’ recognises Commercial Bank’...

Science of Coercion: Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960, Christopher Simpson writes: “At heart modern psychological warfare has been a tool for managing empire, not for settling conflicts in any fundamental sense…In practice modern psychological warfare and propaganda have only rarely offered ‘alternatives’ to violence over the medium-to-long term. Instead, they have been an integral part of a strategy and culture whose premise is the rule of the strong at the e...

Save the Date: EU Forest Crime Initiative Conference, 15-16 June 2021 (virtual) March 17, 2021 Forest crime is a growing problem with links to organized crime and corruption – ranking 1st profitable natural resource crime in 2017. Loopholes in the EUTR and implementation gaps in EU countries have hindered a real change in practice. The EU Forest Crime Initiative, a project financed by the EU Internal Security Fund,  started in March 2019, aims to enable effective law enforcement by stimula...

Synopsis “It is not possible to increase the minimum monthly pension amount without compromising the financial viability of the scheme and additional budgetary support,” labour minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in response to a question in Rajya Sabha. Agencies Labour minister Gangwar said as per section 141 of the Code on Social Security, 2020, the central government shall establish a Social Security Fund for social security and welfare of the unorganised workers, gig workers and platfor...