The Politics of Social Protection in Nepal: State Infrastructural Power and Implementation of the Scholarship Programme

Mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection: The issues yet to be addressed

“…In general, targeting of most SP programmes is based on economic criteria (e.g., income and land ownership) instead of climate‐aware targeting. This approach risks the exclusion of many transient poor in developing countries due to limited state infrastructural power, absence of national databases, fiscal incapacity and a lack of understanding of implementing staff for translating climate information into action (Pradhan et al, 2021; Schwan & Yu, 2018). In addition to defective targeting, the programmes frequently suffer from leakage, corruption and faulty management systems (Coirolo et al, 2013; Godfrey‐Wood & Flower, 2018; Kundo, 2018a).…”