Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme

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A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO...

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Women’s Empowerment...

Contextualization of the Family Card...

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Contextualization of...

A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO Beneficiaries in Cumilla (Draft)

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document 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,...

The Design and...

View Document The objective of this Toolkit is to provide guidance to policy makers and practitioners on ‘how to’ aspects in designing and implementing public...

Livelihood Insecurity and...

View Document Risk and vulnerability have been rediscovered as key features of rural livehoods and poverty, and are currently a focus of policy attention. The...

Social Protection and...

View Document 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...

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...