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By Takia Islam Toma and Sadia Afrin Suvra
This report highlights qualitative findings from an SSPS Programme field visit to SWAPNO project areas in Bagerhat, evaluating the multidimensional impact of social protection on women's empowerment. The assessment reveals that combining conditional cash transfers with structured savings, financial literacy, and vocational training significantly enhances beneficiaries' self-confidence, economic agency, and resilience to market shocks. Key achievements include successful livelihood diversification into high-yield enterprises—such as soft-shell crab farming, livestock, and micro-enterprises—alongside improved financial inclusion, active participation in local governance, and equitable social...
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The objective of this Toolkit is to provide guidance to policy makers and practitioners on ‘how to’ aspects in designing and implementing public...
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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...