Pathways to Sustainable Livelihoods

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BDI has initiated an ethnographic study called “Pathways to Sustainable Livelihoods: Understanding the Process of Change in the Lives of TUP Beneficiaries.” The Social Protection research team focused on: conceptualising and rigorously defining graduation, determining what categories of the poorest benefit from the TUP model, who will require ongoing state support, tracking the process through which change occurs, identifying the factors that promote and inhibit graduation, and assessing how each element of the safety net package (consumption support, asset transfer, training, savings, etc.) integrate with other elements to provide the best support. In December, 2008, the team undertook the following activities.

• Project planning for the first 3 months of data collection
• Identifying indicators and research tools
• Field selection
• First field visit for population sampling

Team Members

Syed Hashemi, Lead Researcher

Farzana Islam, Professor, Jahangir Nagar University

Yaspia Salema, Research Assistant