Shore Up Adaptive Social Protection

Improving people’s living conditions and creating a resilient society is a daunting task. Lifting Nepal’s 20.27 per cent people, who are currently below the national poverty line, out of poverty demands a mixture of serious policy and programmatic interventions. Despite some official claims of poverty reduction and improvement in living standards, mutually reinforcing cycle of chronic poverty, economic inequality, social marginalisation and frequent shocks have been making our livelihoods fragile and vulnerable. As shocks due to climate change, rising food prices, pandemic and conflict increase in frequency and intensity, large number of households are affected and unable to cope, recover, and rebuild their livelihoods.