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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...
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It is frequently claimed that the most innovative feature of social protection, in contrast to safety nets, is that it has the potential...
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Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) aims to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to a range of shocks and ongoing stresses through the integration...
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Social protection initiatives, including cash transfers to the poor and improving the rights of the marginalised, are as much at risk from climate...
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Reliance on subsistence agriculture means the impact of stresses and shocks (such as droughts or floods) are felt keenly by rural poor people,...
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Comprehensive social protection that aims to prevent impoverishment and protect, promote and transform livelihoods and social relations, provides significant opportunities to help people...
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Comprehensive social protection that aims to prevent impoverishment - and protect, promote and transform livelihoods and social relations - provides significant opportunities to...
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Recent conceptual innovations, such as ‘social protection through a livelihood lens’ (Devereux, 2006), ‘adaptive social protection’ (Davies et al, 2008a), ‘climate change adaptation’...
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The genesis of this study originates in policy concerns raised in discussions between the Government of Bangladesh represented by the Ministry of Food,...