Study underway to find out best safety net actions
A research initiative is underway to find out which kinds of social safety net transfers work best for the rural poor in Bangladesh.
The study will assess impacts of five different safety net transfer modalities on household income, food security, and child nutrition.
This is a joint initiative of Washington-based think tank International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), an IFPRI press release said yesterday.
The move comes at a time when the government has expressed willingness to further expand its budget on social safety net programmes (SSNPs).
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has recently said some new programmes will be included in the safety net programmes for underprivileged people as eunuchs and nomadic communities.
The Disaster Management and Relief Division of Ministry of Food and Disaster Management will host an inception ceremony of the research at a hotel in the capital tomorrow.
Commencing this May, the research project will continue till mid-2013.
The research will try to identify which of the five transfer modalities, under which some 4000 ultra-poor women receive a monthly assistance, valued at Tk 1500, best serve the purposes. The five transfer modalities are cash-only, food-only, cash and food combined, cash and nutrition training, and food and nutrition training.
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