Sustainable Development, Human Dignity and Choice: Lessons from the ENRICH Programme, Bangladesh

✍ Scribed by Martin Greeley, Asif M. Shahan, Shubhasish Barua

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 150
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households Towards Elimination of their Poverty (the ENRICH) programme is being implemented by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), which is a government-established Foundation and implements its programmes through Partner NGOs. The efforts are concerned with the perspective of eradicating poverty, aiming at enabling individuals to live a life that is humanly dignified. In doing so, the ENRICH programme focuses on creating opportunities for them to exercise freedom in determining their choices. The approach based on this understanding, i.e. poverty reduction/elimination and economic improvement strategies, coupled with interventions that ensure access to universal human rights, should promote freedom of choice leading to a dignified life and has shaped the programme contents and implementation framework.

The ENRICH programme has been conceptualized and promoted by the current Chairman of PKSF, Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, who was appointed to the position in November 2009. In essence, the ENRICH programme is innovative, integrated, human-centred, taking into consideration the multidimensionality of human life and living, involving socio-economic and environmental dimensions. It focuses on human capability, both individual and collective and social capital formation to facilitate the way forward, the ultimate goal being humanly dignified living of all those who are deprived of this fundamental call of humanity.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Contents
About the Authors
Acronyms, Usage and Administrative Levels
List of Boxes
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Background, Scope of the Study and Research Methodology
2.1 Background: The Emergence and Conceptualisation of the ENRICH Programme
2.2 Scope of the Study
2.3 Research Questions and Specific Objectives of the Study
2.4 Research Approach, Methodology and Data Collection
2.4.1 Research Approach
2.4.2 Quantitative Data Collection
2.4.3 Qualitative Data Collection
2.4.4 Study Areas
2.5 Sampling, Sampling Process and Sample Size
2.5.1 Sample Distribution for Qualitative Survey
Reference
Chapter 3: Inception and Evolution
3.1 Evolution of the ENRICH Programme
3.2 Major Components of the ENRICH Programme
3.2.1 Health
3.2.2 Education
3.2.3 The ENRICH Programme Ward Centre
3.2.4 The ENRICH Programme Finance and Special Savings Scheme
3.2.5 Beggar Rehabilitation
3.2.6 Youth in Development
3.2.7 Supporting Elderly People
3.2.8 ENRICHed Home
3.2.9 Environment and Climate Change
3.2.10 Community Development
3.3 Uniqueness of the ENRICH Programme
3.3.1 Distinctive Features from Procedural Perspective
3.3.2 Distinctive Features from Design Perspective
References
Chapter 4: Changes in Socio-economic Status of the ENRICH Programme Participants
4.1 Housing Characteristics
4.2 Access to Electricity
4.3 Access to Clean Water
4.4 Access to Improved Sanitation Facilities
4.5 Adoption of Family Planning
4.6 Participation in the ENRICH Programme Health Scheme
4.7 Determinants of Participation in  the ENRICH Programme Health Scheme
4.8 Participation in the ENRICH Programme Education Component
4.8.1 Rate of Participation
4.8.2 Determinants of Participation in the ENRICH Programme Education Component
4.8.3 Results Achieved by the Participating Students
4.9 Distribution of Households in Terms of Income
4.9.1 Food Intake
4.10 An Analysis of the Costs of Implementing the ENRICH Programme
References
Chapter 5: The Impact of the ENRICH Programme on the Economic Wellbeing of Participants
5.1 Construction of Panel Data
5.2 Estimation Method
5.3 Difference-in-Difference Based on Propensity Score Matching
5.4 Results
5.5 Understanding the Causal Link
5.6 The Impact of the ENRICH Programme on Occupational Change
Chapter 6: A Theoretical Framework to Assess the Programme Impact on Dignity
6.1 Defining and Understanding Dignity
6.2 Measuring Dignity: The Capabilities Approach
6.3 From Central Capabilities to Dignity
6.4 Dignity, Capabilities and Functioning: Tragic Choice as Basis for Measurement of Dignity
6.5 Applying the Framework in Measuring Dignity as Outcome of the ENRICH Programme: Explaining the Framework and Assumptions Related to Dignity in the Context of the ENRICH Programme
References
Chapter 7: Impact on Human Dignity
7.1 Health and Tragic Choice
7.1.1 Tragic Choice Emerging from a Lack of Access to Information and Services
7.1.2 Tragic Choice in the Case of Seeking Treatment
7.1.3 Treating Chronic Diseases
7.2 Education and Tragic Choice
7.3 Enthusiastic Member and Tragic Choice
7.4 Economic Opportunities and Tragic Choice
7.5 Political Space and Tragic Choice
7.6 Summarising the Findings Relating to Tragic Choice
Chapter 8: Explaining the ENRICH Programme Process
8.1 The Usual Frameworks of Implementation of Poverty Reduction and Development Programmes in Bangladesh
8.1.1 Direct Service Provision by the Government Agencies
8.1.2 Service Provision by the NGOs
8.1.3 Limited Joint Service Provision
8.2 The ENRICH Programme Approach
8.2.1 Design Level Factors
8.2.1.1 Political Perspective
8.2.1.2 Elite Co-option
8.2.1.3 Complementing Government Services and Partnership
8.2.1.4 One PO-One Union
8.2.2 Management Level Factors
References
Chapter 9: Expansion of the ENRICH Programme Coverage
Chapter 10: In Conclusion
Annexes
Annex 1: The ENRICH Programme Management Team at PKSF
Annex 2: Schematic Presentation of the Concept, Goals and Contents of the ENRICH Programme: The Basic Version (Annex Figs. 2.1 and 2.2)
Annex 3: Locational Map of All ENRICH Unions
Annex 4: List of All ENRICH Unions by POs Assigned
Annex 5: SWOT Analysis with Upazila as the ENRICH Programme Planning and Implementation Unit
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Overall SWOT Analysis (Upazila)
Matrix on SWOT Analysis
S-O Strategy
S-T Strategy
Index