Accessibility, Gender, and Social Safety Net Program

Unveiling the Unspoken Reality
2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-5214-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 123 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

This book offers an extensive research work to explore the accessibility of women with disabilities and financial insolvency to social safety net program in rural Bangladesh. The book examines the impact of intersectional identities in accessibility to the human rights in a contextual setting. The authors have also scrutinized the existing policies to identify policy gaps and provide some policy recommendations from this insightful study. Apart from narrower view of the targeting method or implementation of social safety net program on targeting beneficiaries, this research has combined gender and disability in a study framework with making a focus on the Allowances Program for Insolvent Persons with Disabilities provided by Government of Bangladesh. They have argued that intersectional identities (gender, disability, financial insolvency) have influenced over the accessibility to social safety net program as well as identified the challenges of accessibility which provides a broader view of practices of public administration of Bangladesh and enlightens on social and cultural context creating barriers in accessibility to human rights of women with disabilities. The authors argue for bringing changes of the service delivery of the program by bringing change in policies according to human right-based treaties. This book is useful to policy makers, international donor agencies, government officials, and NGOs.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saha, Dabjani

Nawaz, Faraha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Beginning.- Accessibility by Women with Disabilities and Right to Social Safety Net: Analyzing Gaps in Existing Literatures.- Policy and Institutional Arrangements for Social Safety Net Program in Bangladesh: An Overview.- Accessibility to Social Safety Program by Women with Disabilities: In an Intersectional Lens and Perspective of Human Rights.- Challenges of Accessibility.- Discussion, Conclusion and Policy Suggestions.

Über Autor(innen)

is a professor at the Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. Dr Nawaz has proved her excellence both in her basic and applied researches as well as in publishing. As an academic, she has devoted herself in undertaking wide-ranging research in social sciences in general and gender issues in particular and has published articles in refereed journals, chapters in peer-reviewed books, and two books published from Palgrave Macmillan. She is an international fellow of Brown University and a visiting research fellow of the University of Oxford.

Dabjani Saha has pursued her Master’s Degree (Thesis Group) from the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi. She has completed her graduation from the same department. She has co-authored a book chapter published by Springer Nature Singapore and another research article published by Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA). She has worked as a research assistant in a working paper published by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Her core areas of interest are Social Protection, Human Rights, Public Policy, Public Sector Management, Gender Studies, and Poverty.