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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,...

Building a Targeting...

View Document This paper develops and discusses a Proxy Means Test (PMT) based household targeting system for Bangladesh.  The PMT model derived from household survey...

Productive Role of...

View Document The paper contains a framework for linking social protection with growth and productivity, an  updated review of the literature, new original work filling...

Social Safety Nets...

View Document Recent years have seen a perceptible increase in interest on social safety nets in developing countries. The emergence of such a policy focus...

Employment Generation for the Hardcore Poor and National Service:...

View Document Developing and least developed countries suffer from high rate of unemployment and poverty. Additionally, they are vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters....

Does India’s Employment...

View Document In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national antipoverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up...

Targeting the Poorest:...

View Document The purpose of this study is to help AusAID staff, their counterparts in partner governments and others working in the field of social...

Conditional Cash Transfers:...

View Document 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...

Improving Access to...

View Document Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to  facilitate access of the most vulnerable...

Richer but resented:...

View Document Cash transfer interventions form increasingly important parts of social protection systems in most countries. Usually, cash transfers are evaluated against their first order...