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The National Conference on Social Protection 2025, held in Dhaka, marked a significant milestone in Bangladesh’s journey toward building an inclusive, resilient, and rights-based social protection system. Convened by the Cabinet Division with support from UNDP and DFAT, the three-day conference brought together policymakers, development partners, academics, civil society leaders, and practitioners to reflect on the achievements of the National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) 2015–2026 and to chart a bold and transformative course for its next generation outlooks.
The conference opened with a powerful address by honorable Chief Guest,...
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This compendium brings together two companion papers on inclusive development. The first paper uses the global literature to formulate a conceptualisation of inclusive...
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The study deals with two questions: what role infrastructures can plan in promoting paid work opportunities for women and what specific type of...
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This paper provides a meaning for the term chronic poverty ‘in a nutshell’ and explores the concepts of poverty, vulnerability and poverty dynamics that...
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Is there a conspiracy afoot? Practitioners of social protection have long debated the relative merits of conditional and unconditional cash transfers. Now the...
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How do poor families manage to have enough to eat even in very difficult circumstances? When faced with shocks and economic stress, why...
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Social protection is fast becoming one of the most important themes in development policy. This collection examines the political processes shaping the formulation...
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This paper introduces a significant new multi-disciplinary collection of studies of poverty dynamics, presenting the reader with the latest thinking by a group...
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Despite considerable progress in reducing poverty over the past 15 years, half of Bangladesh's population is still poor. With a combination of sound...