Social protection is vital to mitigate the effects of the crisis and enhance households’ resilience in the face of uncertainty. [...] This policy brief provides insights into the experiences of urban residents living in poverty after the COVID-19 pandemic and the support they have since received since the Covid-19 pandemic and derives implications for social protection programming in urban Bangladesh. [...] Using secondary longitudinal data collected since the beginning of the pandemic, along with new quantitative surveys and qualitative data collected in Kallyanpur, Dhaka, and Santinagar, Chattogram in March 2023, this brief highlights high levels of precarity, the toll of poverty on mental health, widespread stigmatization and discrimination against residents of low-income neighbourhoods, and inade. [...] Other issues with this programme included the length of Having connections with individuals in positions time spent in the queue, women feeling harassed of power was important to access various forms by men, tensions or fights breaking out in the lines, of relief provided by community leaders and lack of product choice, and food running out before the government. [...] As noted in the National Social Security Strategy Shame and Dignity of Support (NSSS) of Bangladesh and in line with the Vision for Social Security System in the Eighth Five Year Plan There is strong consensus that people should not (2020 to 2025), expansion of coverage must be a feel ashamed when receiving government-run priority to address urban poverty and associated social protection support s.
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