Yasmine Ibrahim

Social work

Jacobus de Hoop works as a researcher (humanitarian policy specialist) at UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, where he supports the Transfer Project. His research examines how social protection programs implemented in developing countries and humanitarian contexts affect children and adolescents. Dr. de Hoop previously worked as a researcher at the International Labour Organization (ILO), was affiliated with the Paris School of Economics as a Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellow, and worked for the World Bank as field manager on a study examining the effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfers in Malawi. Dr. de Hoop hold a PhD in economics from the Tinbergen Institute and VU University in Amsterdam.

Projects

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“Min Ila” Cash Transfer Program for Displaced Syrian Children in Lebanon (UNICEF and WFP)

In the 2016–17 school year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) in Lebanon, started to pilot a child-focused cash transfer program for displaced S ..