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By Takia Islam Toma and Sadia Afrin Suvra
This report highlights qualitative findings from an SSPS Programme field visit to SWAPNO project areas in Bagerhat, evaluating the multidimensional impact of social protection on women's empowerment. The assessment reveals that combining conditional cash transfers with structured savings, financial literacy, and vocational training significantly enhances beneficiaries' self-confidence, economic agency, and resilience to market shocks. Key achievements include successful livelihood diversification into high-yield enterprises—such as soft-shell crab farming, livestock, and micro-enterprises—alongside improved financial inclusion, active participation in local governance, and equitable social...
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Demand for social protection is growing in low income countries and fragile situations. In recent years, the success of social protection (SP) interventions...
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This paper develops and discusses a Proxy Means Test (PMT) based household targeting system for Bangladesh. The PMT model derived from household survey...
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The paper contains a framework for linking social protection with growth and productivity, an updated review of the literature, new original work filling...
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Recent years have seen a perceptible increase in interest on social safety nets in developing countries. The emergence of such a policy focus...
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Developing and least developed countries suffer from high rate of unemployment and poverty. Additionally, they are vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters....
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In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national antipoverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up...
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The purpose of this study is to help AusAID staff, their counterparts in partner governments and others working in the field of social...
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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school...
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Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to facilitate access of the most vulnerable...