Supporting Bangladesh’s response to the Covid-19 crisis

ongoing

The project will contribute to modernize the social protection system and to assist to households and individuals affected by the social and economic consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic. The Project embeds resilience in its core design to respond to various poverty and deprivation risks by allocating unconditional  cash  transfers  to  the  elderly  in  the  form  of  old  age allowances, widow allowances, disability allowance and Disabled  Students  Stipend. These benefits will increase beneficiaries’ access to cash to meet immediate subsistence needs during and  after  natural  disasters.  It  would  also  help  digitize  beneficiary  information and  modernize  systems  to  make  payments  using  biometrically  authenticated  processes.