Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme

An initiative of the Cabinet Division and the General Economics Division (GED), Bangladesh Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh
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Leaving No Child Behind: A...

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Reflecting on a Decade, Reimagining...

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Leaving No Child Behind: A Policy Dialogue between the Department of Social Services, Ministry of Social Welfare and the Social Security Policy Support (SSPS)...

View Document By Arju Afrin Kathy The report titled “Strengthening Bangladesh's Child Protection and Social Welfare Ecosystem” presents the outcomes of a policy dialogue between the Department of Social Services (DSS), Ministry of Social Welfare, and the Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme supported by UNDP. The dialogue aimed to enhance coordination, integration, and effectiveness of child protection and social protection systems in Bangladesh. It highlighted that while Bangladesh has a strong legal and institutional foundation for child protection—anchored in the Constitution, the Children Act 2013, and international commitments—significant challenges remain in...

Accessing and Retaining...

View Document A variety of means and mechanisms have been recommended to assist with the implementation of projects aimed at allowing the extreme poor to...

Access to Education...

View Document The paper explores the linkages between ‘Education’ and ‘Poverty’ and the possibility of poverty reduction through better employment opportunities. The paper proceeds with...

Rural Poverty Dynamics...

View Document This report addresses the recent dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh with particular focus on two groups of the poorest - the chronically...

New Statistics: 25...

View Document This year two major reports came out of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) which, when put together, tell a story about the...

Conditional Cash Transfers...

View Document COnditiOnal Cash transfers (CCts) are prOgrams that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make prespecified investments in...

Successful Targeting? Reporting...

View Document Economic, moral and political reasons may underlie the choice between targeting and universal models of social provision. In the debate about universal versus...

Social Safety Nets...

View Document Recent years have seen a perceptible increase in interest in social safety nets with in developing countries. Although many critics have questioned social...

Social Protection in...

View Document Demand for social protection is growing in low income countries and fragile situations. In recent  years, the success of social protection (SP) interventions...

Building a Targeting...

View Document This paper develops and discusses a Proxy Means Test (PMT) based household targeting system for Bangladesh.  The PMT model derived from household survey...