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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Building an Interoperable Safety Net:...

By Sanjida Sultana View Document The “Family Card...

The Hidden Social Costs of...

View Document By Takia Islam Toma The “Hidden Social...

Building an Interoperable Safety Net: Pushing the Frontiers of Social Protection in Bangladesh (Zero Draft)

By Sanjida Sultana View Document The “Family Card and the Next Phase of the NSSS” Policy Note examines the Family Card Programme as a key instrument for transforming Bangladesh’s social protection system from a fragmented collection of schemes into a more integrated, coordinated, and responsive platform. Launched as a pilot in March 2026, the programme provides monthly financial assistance to vulnerable households through cards issued in the name of women or female heads of households. The note highlights the potential of the Family Card to improve poverty reduction, social protection...

Asset-based Approaches to...

Th is working paper provides a brief introduction to asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context. Th e aim is to show...

An Analysis of...

View Document This study attempts to provide an understanding of how the process of institutional change influences the outcomes of interventions. To better understand the...

An Overview of...

View Document The phrase ‘rural Bangladesh’ no longer means what it once did. We believe it to be out of date as the distinction between...

Affordability to Finance...

View Document Trapped in the realm between market failure and social justice, Bangladesh’s objective of alleviating poverty is marred by its inability to mobilize enough...

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...