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By Arju Afrin Kathy
The report titled “Strengthening Bangladesh's Child Protection and Social Welfare Ecosystem” presents the outcomes of a policy dialogue between the Department of Social Services (DSS), Ministry of Social Welfare, and the Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme supported by UNDP.
The dialogue aimed to enhance coordination, integration, and effectiveness of child protection and social protection systems in Bangladesh. It highlighted that while Bangladesh has a strong legal and institutional foundation for child protection—anchored in the Constitution, the Children Act 2013, and international commitments—significant challenges remain in...
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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...
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In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have toactor in climate change, and social protection is no exception....