Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor (Bagladesh)

Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor
Bangladesh

Partners

Start date
March 2001

End date
April 2003

Commitment (£)

DFID

Contacts

Tim Robertson DFID Livelihoods Advisor
T-Robertson@dfid.gov.uk

Purpose

Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor was a research study which aimed to better understand the livelihood conditions, constraints and opportunities of the very poorest people in Bangladesh. The intention was to help PROSHIKA and other agencies, including Government of Bangladesh, improve their programme delivery to the poorest. The various studies applied a livelihoods approach in their conceptualisation of poverty.

				Lessons
				The Livelihoods of Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh: Stories of Adolescent Girls. by Prokriti Nokrek, Mizanur Rahman, Md. Moniruzzaman Nazmun Nahar Lipi and Dilara Jaman. Proshika June 2004 Word NEW
				Is Marriage a Safe Haven for Women? A critique of existing laws and practices Nasrin Sultana, LEP Research Report-10, December 2003 Word
				Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor Study Methodology S. M. Zubair Ali Khan, Iqbal Alam Khan and Janet Seeley, October 2003 Word
				Living with the Food Insecurity: Coping Strategies of the Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor LEP Research Report 8. Mohammad Shazzad Hossain. March 2003 Word
				Breaking and Making the Chain: Livelihoods of the Female-headed Extreme Poor Households LEP Research Report 7. Mayee March 2003 Word
				Looking Forward to a Better Future: A Reflection of the Perceptions of the Extreme Poor LEP Research Report 6. Ahmed Borhan. March 2003 Word
				The Extreme Poor in the Labour Market: Participation and Vulnerability LEP Research Report 5. Mohammed Kamruzzaman. March 2003 Word
				Fighting with Calamities: Coping strategies of the extreme poor LEP Research Report 4. Sinora Chakma March 2003 Word
				Moving Forward Looking Behind: Creation of Livelihoods Options through Migration LEP Research Report 3. Munshi Israil Hossain. March 2003 Word
				Making Use of Mediating Resources: Social Network of the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh LEP Research Report 2. Md. Salim Ahmed Purvez. March 2003 Word
				Report on Living on the Boundary: Institutional Influences on the Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor LEP Research Perport 1. S. M. Zubair Ali Khan. March 2003 Word
				Stories from the Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor Study, PROSHIKA Fourteen stories of people's lives and livelihoods. January 2003. With photographs (0.8 MB) Word / PDF Without photographs Word / PDF
				Conceptualising Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor. LEP Working Paper 1. Nasrin Sultana. January 2002. Word / PDF

Use of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on the causes of poverty in Bangladesh. In recent years attention has turned to improving understanding of the nature of `extreme poverty', the poverty of the poorest of the poor.

Efforts are being made by different national and international organisations, as well as the Government of Bangladesh, to extend their programme support to the extreme poor. The purpose of the LEP study has been to contribute to PROSHIKA's efforts to improve the delivery of their programmes to the poorest of the poor by learning more about their livelihoods and the type of interventions that might really make a difference to them and lift them out of poverty. DFID has worked in partnership with PROSHIKA in this programme.

LEP sought to understand the livelihood conditions of the many different extremely poor people living in Bangladesh by analyzing their livelihood constraints and opportunities. It also tried to understand how the coping strategies that the poorest use in order to survive may be supported by some form of social protection as a means to help them escape from poverty and, importantly, to stay out of extreme poverty.

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