By Sadia Afrin Suvra
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The “Women’s Empowerment through Livelihoods, Skills and Economic Agency: A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO Beneficiaries in Cumilla” examines how the SWAPNO Project contributes to the economic and social empowerment of vulnerable women through an integrated combination of livelihood support, technical and vocational skills, savings and financial management, health and nutritional awareness, and confidence building. Drawing on field-level evidence from 27 key informant interviews with beneficiaries participating in formal sector training, the study explores changes in women’s economic participation, household decision-making, financial agency, social recognition, wellbeing,...
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Despite considerable progress in reducing poverty over the past 15 years, half of Bangladesh's population is still poor. With a combination of sound...
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By adopting the Child Rights Convention (CRC) as their basic policy framework, Save the Children Sweden-Denmark is committed to child rights programming (CRP)...
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For much of its history, social policy has involved choices about whether the core principle behind social provisioning will be “universalism”, or selectivity...
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In October 2010 the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned of continued economic downturn, citing a compilation of data from...
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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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In the last decade, social protection has emerged as a policy framework employed to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries. This report...
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Social protection is once again high on the international policy agenda as the multiple crises of recent years have devastated the livelihoods of...
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This briefing shows how migration exacerbates the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or...
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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...