By Sanjida Sultana
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The Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme supports the Government of Bangladesh in strengthening and modernizing the country’s social protection system in line with the National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) 2015–2026 and the transition toward NSSS 2026+. Grounded in constitutional obligations and international human rights commitments, SSPS works to move Bangladesh from fragmented, relief-based assistance toward a coordinated, lifecycle-based, and rights-based social protection system. While significant progress has been made over the past decade—such as expanded programme coverage, improved policy coordination, increased digitization, and stronger governance...
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Risk and vulnerability have been rediscovered as key features of rural livehoods and poverty, and are currently a focus of policy attention. The...
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Social protection interventions at key stages across the life-cycle contribute towards breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Poverty and vulnerability analysis help identify sources...
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This toolkit aims to support policy makers, programme designers, implementers and evaluators to apply a much-needed gender lens to social protection.
The past decade...
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Social protection is an approach towards thinking about the processes, policies and interventions which respond to the economic, social, political and security risks...
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Background Conventional estimates of poverty do not take account of out-of-pocket payments to finance health care. We aimed to reassess measures of poverty...
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The Government of Bangladesh is currently in the process of preparing the second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. In order to inform this process,...
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The concept and practice of social protection in developing countries has advanced at an astonishing pace over the last decade or so. There...
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This paper provides an overview of social protection strategies in the South Asian context, focusing on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka...
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This report sets out an action plan for the preparation of a National Social Protection Strategy for Bangladesh by December 2012. It explains...