Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung; Ruthbah, Ummul

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“…This income transfer certainly helps the poorest beneficiaries to improve their household food security outcomes for at least five months a year. This finding supports similar work by Cho and Ruthbah (2018) and Mannan et al (2018) in the context of Bangladesh and resonates with the research results of analogous public works programmes in India and Ethiopia (Deininger and Liu, 2019;Sabates-Wheeler et al, 2020). However, one-off short-term employment generated under the adaptive programme is found to have a relatively small effect on improving food security and reducing distress migration.…”

Section: Social Protection and Absorptive Capacitiessupporting

confidence: 90%

Enhancing the resilience and well‐being of rural poor to climate risks: are the economic functions of social protection enough?

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As climate change accelerates, adaptive social protection programmes are becoming increasingly more popular than conventional social assistance programmes, since they are seen to enhance people's resilience and well-being outcomes. Despite this upsurge, little is known about the impacts of adaptive programmes on resilience and well-being outcomes as compared to conventional programmes. This paper examines the economic functions that both types of social protection programmes offer through empirical studies in two climate-vulnerable zones in Bangladesh. By operationalising a simplified analytical framework to comprehend subjective resilience, the qualitative data reveal that the adaptive programme is more effective in enhancing beneficiaries' perceived resilience to climate risks. Regrettably, neither programme is found to contribute much significantly in terms of enabling beneficiaries to achieve the desired well-being outcomes that one might expect to see. The paper offers rich insights into the design components of the programmes, affording an on-the-ground understanding of their implications for resilience and well-being.

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Section: Social Protection and Absorptive Capacitiessupporting

confidence: 90%