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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Qualitative Findings from the Field...

View Document As part of efforts to better...

Qualitative Findings from the Field Visit to the SWAPNO Project Areas in Rangpur: Pirganj and Pirgacha Unions

View Document As part of efforts to better understand the real-life impact of social protection programmes, the Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme team conducted a field visit to the SWAPNO Project areas in Rangpur, specifically focusing on the Pirganj and Pirgacha unions. During the visit, the team facilitated two consultative dialogues involving approximately 25 women beneficiaries. These women are enrolled in the Government’s conditional cash transfer scheme under the SWAPNO Project, implemented by the Local Government Division with support from UNDP and funding from SIDA. Rather than simply collecting...

Transforming Livelihoods for...

View Document It is frequently claimed that the most innovative feature of social protection, in contrast to safety nets, is that it has the potential...

Making Social Protection...

View Document Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) aims to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to a range of shocks and ongoing stresses through the integration...

Connecting Social Protection...

View Document Social protection initiatives, including cash transfers to the poor and improving the rights of the marginalised, are as much at risk from climate...

Working Paper –...

View Document Reliance on subsistence agriculture means the impact of stresses and shocks (such as droughts or floods) are felt keenly by rural poor people,...

Climate Change Adaptation,...

View Document Comprehensive social protection that aims to prevent impoverishment and protect, promote and transform livelihoods and social relations, provides significant opportunities to help people...

Climate Change Adaptation,...

View Document Comprehensive social protection that aims to prevent impoverishment - and protect, promote and transform livelihoods and social relations - provides significant opportunities to...

Bringing Social Protection...

View Document Recent conceptual innovations, such as ‘social protection through a livelihood lens’ (Devereux, 2006), ‘adaptive social protection’ (Davies et al, 2008a), ‘climate change adaptation’...

Who are the...

View Document 1. The WFS Plan of Action in its para 20 (a) requested governments, in partnership with all actors of civil society, as appropriate,...

Determination of Food...

View Document The genesis of this study originates in policy concerns raised in discussions between the Government of Bangladesh represented by the Ministry of Food,...