Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme

An initiative of the Cabinet Division and the General Economics Division (GED), Bangladesh Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh
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Macroeconomic, Vulnerability & Demographic Analyses...

View Document Bangladesh is entering a period of...

Governance Structures, Institutional Architecture, Coordination...

View Document This report assesses the governance structures,...

Macroeconomic, Vulnerability & Demographic Analyses with Integrated Risk Diagnostics and Profiles for Social Policy Systems

View Document Bangladesh is entering a period of significant economic, demographic, and social transition. Over recent decades, the country has achieved substantial progress in economic growth, poverty reduction, human development, and social indicators. At the same time, the context within which social protection systems operate is changing rapidly. Population growth is slowing, urbanisation is accelerating, labour markets are evolving, climate-related risks are increasing, and households are becoming more exposed to economic, health, and livelihood shocks. These changes are occurring alongside a period of political and institutional transition, preparations for graduation...

How to design...

View Document 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...

Gender and Social...

View Document Social protection is an approach towards thinking about the processes, policies and interventions which respond to the economic, social, political and security risks...

Effect of payments...

View Document 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...

Fighting chronic and...

View Document The Government of Bangladesh is currently in the process of preparing the second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. In order to inform this process,...

Social Protection for...

View Document The concept and practice of social protection in developing countries has advanced at an astonishing pace over the last decade or so. There...

A Review of...

View Document This paper provides an overview of social protection strategies in the South Asian context, focusing on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka...

Action Plan for...

View Document This report sets out an action plan for the preparation of a National Social Protection Strategy for Bangladesh by December 2012. It explains...

Climate-Responsive Social Protection

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

Transforming Livelihoods for...

View Document It is frequently claimed that the most innovative feature of social protection, in contrast to safety nets, is that it has the potential...