Building on our understanding of poverty and inequality dynamics, we support countries to design and implement social protection systems that are fair, effective, efficient, nationally-owned, sustainable, and tailored to local context.
Poverty and Social Protection team
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Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems (SRSP)
This project investigates how social protection systems can scale up to respond to shocks in low-income countries, and fragile and conflict-affected states.
Infographics: evaluating Bihar Child Support Programme
India’s Bihar Child Support Programme is a conditional cash transfer programme, improving child nutrition outcomes in Bihar.
Improving child nutrition and maternal health in India
We worked with the State Government's Social Welfare Department to introduce the Bihar Child Support Programme.
Working paper: Assessing the capacity of local administration to deliver social protection programmes
Delivering social protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Evaluating the Benazir Income Support Programme
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is Pakistan’s flagship social protection programme, targeted at the poorest households across 149 districts in Pakistan.
Social sector performance surveys in Bangladesh
We designed and implemented quantitative and qualitative surveys on the use of public resources for education and primary health care and family planning.