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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In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have toactor in climate change, and social protection is no exception....
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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’...