Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme

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A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO...

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Women’s Empowerment...

Contextualization of the Family Card...

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Contextualization of...

A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO Beneficiaries in Cumilla (Draft)

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Women’s Empowerment through Livelihoods, Skills and Economic Agency: A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO Beneficiaries in Cumilla” examines how the SWAPNO Project contributes to the economic and social empowerment of vulnerable women through an integrated combination of livelihood support, technical and vocational skills, savings and financial management, health and nutritional awareness, and confidence building. Drawing on field-level evidence from 27 key informant interviews with beneficiaries participating in formal sector training, the study explores changes in women’s economic participation, household decision-making, financial agency, social recognition, wellbeing,...

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...

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...