How Can Aid Actors Support Yemeni Capacities for Social Assistance?

BASIC Research Policy Briefing 2

This Policy Briefing offers a series of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of donor and aid agency support for local capacities for social assistance in Yemen.

Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Bangladesh

Women have made substantial gains in health, education, and political representation in Bangladesh, which has been led by female prime ministers since 1991. Women play a key role in the garment industry, the country’s main export sector, and entrepreneurial ventures funded by microcredit loans...

Sohela Nazneen

Multiple Crises, Coping Strategies, and their Longer-Term Impacts

CLEAR Synthesis Report 3

The multiple economic shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an estimated 1.6 million people falling into poverty in Bangladesh, especially in urban low-income areas, and for women, marginalised groups and those working in the informal sector. Four years later, recovery has been slow.

Brigitte Rohwerder

Conflict Disruptions to Social Assistance in a Multi-Hazard Context: Assessing Responses to the Northern Ethiopia Crisis (2020–22)

BASIC Research Working Paper 28

This paper focuses on the responsiveness and resilience of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) to large-scale conflict shocks, particularly focusing on how PSNP systems and implementation responded during the 2020–22 conflict in northern Ethiopia.

Jeremy Lind & 3 others