Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-02-02T11:32:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1406166 bytes, checksum: 2c0643799063aec30bae0e1c63420ff9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-02T11:32:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1406166 bytes, checksum: 2c0643799063aec30bae0e1c63420ff9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-22 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The BolsaFamília Program is currently the main strategy used to coping to poverty through monetary income. After program execution nationwide, conducted research has demonstrated the growth of consumption access and to basic social rights such as health, education, feeding and social assistance. The discussion on poverty, expressed in many types of vulnerabilities and dependency on state policies, for much of the population, it is still a challenge for scholars and planners. This dissertational work aims to understand, through literature and involved themselves - the beneficiaries - whether that program provided or propitiates, in fact, social inclusion and autonomy. The first expression, Social Inclusion, made up of Sposati (1996) which links the social minimum established a basic pattern that includes both dignity and citizenship ideas. Regarding autonomy, evidence of the study Pinzani and Rego (2013), who argue that it is the perception of themselves as subjects able to make free choices. It is, therefore, a field research that has privileged qualitative aspects, in which, considered to define the subjects, they should have the minimum time of five years as the beneficiary. It was found that the guaranteed rights and the services available in the Social Assistance Policy are still little known to its users, becoming a challenge to be analyzed by professionals and researchers. Therefore, that social inclusion is expressed through the guarantee of monthly deposit that opens up access to the consumption while the autonomy is characterized by the possibility of acquiring goods aimed for survival, especially access to food and clothing aspects up then absent in the trajectory of these social subjects. / O Programa Bolsa Famíliaé, atualmente, a principal estratégia utilizada para o enfrentamento à pobrezaatravés de renda monetária. Após a execução do programa em todo território nacional, pesquisas realizadas tem demonstrado o crescimento do acesso ao consumo e aos direitos sociais básicos como saúde, educação, alimentação e assistência social. Adiscussão sobre pobreza, expressa em diversos tipos de vulnerabilidadese a dependência de políticas do Estado, por grande parte da população, ainda é um desafio para estudiosos e pesquisadores. Este trabalho dissertativo busca compreender, através da literatura e dos próprios envolvidos - os beneficiários - se o referido programa propiciou ou propicia, de fato, Inclusão Social e Autonomia. A primeira expressão, Inclusão Social, tomou-se de Sposati (1996) a qual associa a mínimos sociais estabelecidos de um padrão básico que contemple ideias de dignidade e cidadania. Em relação à autonomia, evidenciou-se o estudo de Rego e Pinzani (2013), os quais defendem que é a percepção de si como sujeito capaz de fazer escolhas livres. A pesquisa valeu-se de um formulário com questões mais específicas sobre o tema, aplicados em João Pessoa, território de maior concentração de famílias beneficiárias. Trata-se, portanto, de uma pesquisa de campo que privilegiou aspectos qualitativos, na qual, considerou-se para definir os sujeitos, que eles deveriam ter o tempo mínimo de cinco anos como beneficiário, tendo em vista a existência do programa que em 2014 completou 10 anos (2004-2014). Verificou-se que os direitos garantidos e os serviços disponibilizados na Política de Assistência Social ainda são pouco conhecidos por seus usuários, tornando-se um questionamentoa ser analisado por profissionais e pesquisadores. Portanto, a referida Inclusão Social se expressa através da garantia do depósito mensal que viabiliza o acesso ao consumo, enquanto que a Autonomia caracteriza-se pela possibilidade de aquisição de bens voltados para a sobrevivência, sobretudo, o acesso à alimentação e vestuário, aspectos até entãoausentes na trajetória desses sujeitos sociais.

Submitted by FRANCILENE SOARES DE MEDEIROS COSTA null (francilenesoares@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-11-14T12:45:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_Francilene _Versão_Final.pdf: 7854643 bytes, checksum: 280acccac159e4bc52c17311379d7b5f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-11-16T19:28:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_fsm_dr_prud.pdf: 7854643 bytes, checksum: 280acccac159e4bc52c17311379d7b5f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-16T19:28:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_fsm_dr_prud.pdf: 7854643 bytes, checksum: 280acccac159e4bc52c17311379d7b5f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-31 / Trata-se de um estudo acerca das implicações do crescente processo de diarização do trabalho doméstico no Brasil sobre a problemática da proteção social das trabalhadoras que atuam como diaristas. A regulamentação recente do trabalho doméstico no país é um avanço inegável para a garantia de melhores padrões de proteção social das domésticas, historicamente deficitário. Entretanto, pelo que se subentende da Lei n. 150/2015, a pessoa que trabalhar até dois dias por semana na mesma residência familiar não é objeto dessa regulamentação, pois nessas condições não se estabelece o vínculo empregatício. Neste caso ocorre uma prestação autônoma do serviço doméstico. Embora as diaristas tenham o direito de acessar a proteção social previdenciária por meio de contribuição individual, identificamos barreiras significativas para o acesso dessas trabalhadoras ao sistema. Nesse caso, as desigualdades regionais representam um importante agravante. Assim, o processo de diarização em curso no país comparece, em potencial, como a nova face da (des)proteção social da trabalhadora doméstica brasileira. A perspectiva metodológica do estudo é quantitativa e qualitativa. Foram utilizadas fontes documentais e bibliográficas, além de dados estatísticos. Para um panorama global sobre o trabalho doméstico remunerado utilizamos os dados compilados pela Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT). E para realidade do Brasil, fizemos uso dos microdados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD/IBGE). Também realizamos entrevistas com diaristas residentes nas cidades de Belém/PA e São Paulo/SP, orientadas pelo uso de roteiro de entrevista semiestruturado, contendo questões abertas e fechadas. / It is a study about the implications of the growing diarisation of domestic work in Brazil on the issue of social protection of daily workers. The recent regulation of domestic work in the country is an undeniable advance for the guarantee of better standards of social protection of domestic, historically deficient. However, according to what is implied by the Law n. 150/2015, the person who works up to two days a week in the same family residence is not subject to this regulation, because under these conditions the employment relationship is not established. In this case there is an autonomous provision of domestic service. Although daily workers have the right to access social security social protection through individual contributions, we identified significant barriers to the access of workers to the system. In this case, regional inequalities represent an important aggravating factor. Thus, the process of diarisation in progress in the country appears, potentially, as the new face of the (un) social protection of the Brazilian domestic worker. The methodological perspective of the study is quantitative and qualitative. Documentary and bibliographical sources were used, as well as statistics data. For an overall view of paid domestic work we used data compiled by the International Labor Organization (ILO). And for the Brazilian reality, we used microdata from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD/IBGE). We also conducted interviews with daily workers living in the cities of Belém/PA and São Paulo/SP, guided by a semi-structured interview script, containing open and closed questions.

Orientador: Marcelo Weishaupt Proni / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T10:41:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_WagnerWiliamda_M.pdf: 989161 bytes, checksum: 4f60eea8b491366cda4ed60837fceff0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A gênese da construção de uma estrutura de proteção social na Inglaterra aparece como pré-requisito à manutenção da ordem social necessária à reprodução ampliada do capital. O Estado britânico, na condição de defensor maior do desenvolvimento econômico, tratou de normatizar os comportamentos, principalmente daqueles sujeitos mais próximos à base da pirâmide social. Nesse sentido, muito mais que uma política de proteção, a Lei dos Pobres de 1834 impunha normas de conduta que penalizavam àqueles que a descumprissem, com o objetivo maior de garantir a consolidação de um mercado de trabalho que assegurasse uma oferta adequada de trabalhadores para as fábricas e os empreendimentos em expansão. As conseqüências da Primeira e da Segunda Guerra Mundial e da crise de 1929 provocaram uma ebulição social de magnitude inédita, que forçou o abandono do liberalismo econômico e político. A metamorfose do Estado britânico trouxe um avanço significativo das políticas sociais, tornando-as mais abrangentes e, principalmente, com um caráter diferente daquele observado na Lei dos Pobres. Enquanto a primeira geração de políticas sociais tratava de isolar os "vagabundos" e disciplinar o comportamento dos trabalhadores, o modelo que se consolida após a Segunda Guerra busca a construção da cidadania a partir da proteção ao trabalho. O Plano Beveridge estabeleceu as diretrizes básicas da seguridade social na Inglaterra, procurando evitar que o desemprego em massa e a privação social pudessem se repetir. A construção de uma nova ordem social, no entanto, não se daria de forma espontânea. Na verdade, o sucesso eleitoral ora de trabalhistas, ora de conservadores, também determinou a intensidade e o ritmo da implantação de uma nova geração de políticas sociais / Abstract: The genesis of the construction of a social protection structure in England appears as a prerequisite to the maintenance of the social order, needed to the expanded reproduction of capital. The British state, in the condition of the major advocate of the economic development, sought to regulate the behaviors, mainly of those people closest to the base of the social pyramid. In this sense, much more than a protection policy, the Poor's Law imposed rules of conduct that penalized those who disobeyed them, with the larger goal of guaranteeing the consolidation of a labor market that would ensure an adequate supply of workers for factories and the growing enterprises. The consequences of the First and Second World War and the crisis of 1929 caused a social boiling of unprecedented magnitude, which forced the abandonment of the economic and political liberalism. The metamorphosis of the British State has brought a significant improvement of social policies, making them more comprehensive, and especially with a character different from that observed in the Poor's Law. While the first generation of social policies look for isolating the "bums" and discipline the behavior of workers, the model that was consolidated after World War II seeks the construction of citizenship starting from the protection of labor. The Beveridge Plan established the basic policies of social security in England, seeking to prevent that the mass unemployment and social privation could be repeated. But the building of a new social order would not occur spontaneously. Indeed, the electoral success sometimes of the labors, sometimes of the conservatives, also determined the intensity and pace of the implementation of a new generation of social policies / Mestrado / Economia Social e do Trabalho / Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:41:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rosimary souza.pdf: 4876849 bytes, checksum: 931d355725b1c2cb4cc3f1d10a2de745 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-27 / This present work consists at a reflection about the public health services available to the elderly population, as a parameter of treatments provided to in - patients elderly in Adriano Jorge Foundation Hospital in the city of Manaus / AM. Our focus refers to hospital care - admission, according to one of our concerns in this study that is to discuss referral and counter-referral in the health services, as part of the organization of health services, which must be organized into networks to achieve completeness in health care. This reflection is based on a literature review on old age and social protection for the elderly, including the SUS and in field research that aimed at analyzing the vision of elderly patients in FHAJ about public health services. Specifically aimed at checking the socioeconomic and cultural profile of the elderly hospitalized in FHAJ; to identify the types of health problems of the elderly; to get to know the view of the elderly treated regarding to the public health services; to point out if there is reference and counter-reference in the health meeting the elderly and to identify the cares health workers for the elderly. This survey was administered to 28 people, of which: 20 elderly in-patients in FHAJ users and 08 health workers who the multidisciplinary team of Unity Hospital. The research is quantitative. The methodology was developed using the application forms with open and closed questions with the elderly, as well as application forms with open and closed questions and interviews (recorded by a digital recorder and transcribed later) to health workers from FHAJ. Were also used as resources, direct observation and use of field notebook. The reflections are intended to contribute to local managers in order to support evaluation processes regarding work processes, the flows and work routines, and finally to the organization of public health services in Manaus. More specifically we hope to help the elderly may in fact be guaranteed the right to health in its fullness, the right of a human treatment, resolving the comprehensive care of their health needs. / O presente trabalho consiste numa reflexão acerca dos serviços públicos de saúde disponibilizados à população idosa, tendo como parâmetro atendimentos realizados a idosos internados na Fundação Hospital Adriano Jorge, na cidade de Manaus/AM. O nosso recorte refere-se à assistência hospitalar - internação, em função de uma de nossas inquietações nesse estudo que é discutir referência e contra-referência nos serviços de saúde, enquanto parte da organização dos serviços de saúde, os quais devem está organizados em redes para o alcance da integralidade na atenção à saúde. Essa reflexão é baseada em uma revisão bibliográfica sobre velhice e sistema de proteção social ao idoso, inclusive o SUS e na pesquisa de campo que teve por objetivo analisar a visão de idosos internados na FHAJ sobre os serviços públicos de saúde. Especificamente objetivou verificar o perfil socioeconômico e cultural dos idosos internados na FHAJ; identificar os tipos de agravos à saúde dos idosos; conhecer a visão dos idosos atendidos a respeito dos serviços públicos de saúde; apontar se está havendo referência e contra-referência no atendimento de saúde ao idoso e identificar os cuidados dos trabalhadores da saúde para com os idosos. A pesquisa foi aplicada a 28 pessoas, sendo: 20 idosos usuários internados na FHAJ e 08 trabalhadores da saúde que compõem a equipe multidisciplinar daquela Unidade Hospitalar. A pesquisa é de natureza quantiqualitativa. A metodologia foi desenvolvida utilizando a aplicação de formulários com questões abertas e fechadas junto aos idosos, bem como a aplicação de formulários com questões abertas e fechadas e entrevistas (registradas em gravador digital e transcritas posteriormente) aos trabalhadores da saúde da FHAJ. Também foram utilizados como recursos, observação direta e uso do caderno de campo. As reflexões têm o propósito de contribuir com os gestores locais no sentido de subsidiar processos avaliativos quanto aos processos de trabalho, os fluxos e rotinas de trabalho, enfim para a organização dos serviços públicos de saúde em Manaus. Especificamente esperamos estar contribuindo para que os idosos possam de fato ter garantido o direito à saúde na sua plenitude, o direito a um atendimento humanizado, resolutivo, a uma assistência integral à sua necessidade de saúde.

Orientador: Pedro Luiz Barros Silva / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T00:39:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viana_JoaoFernandoMoura_D.pdf: 3718637 bytes, checksum: ad94097ee1a7f8323428fbfbaf43b8c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Regimes de proteção social de países que vêm apresentando dinâmica de acelerado envelhecimento populacional, possuem sistemas de assistência à saúde público e privado duplicados e competidores entre si e se utilizam do mesmo complexo público-privado médico industrial, necessitam reestruturar o papel do Estado, das Famílias e das Empresas no financiamento do seu sistema de saúde. Mostra-se necessário adotar políticas severas de controle de gastos, aumentar o rigor nos processos de incorporação tecnológica, regular a comercialização de produtos e serviços médicos de alto valor e introduzir mecanismos eficientes de portabilidade dos planos de saúde, visando criar competição, em especial no momento dos reajustes de preços. No Brasil, não se pode mais caracterizar como "supletiva" a atividade dos planos de saúde, o que aponta para a necessidade de revisão da regulação entre o público e o privado no sistema de saúde, uma vez que a concepção original do marco regulatório partia de um sistema supletivo mas que na verdade é duplicado, em termos de suas coberturas, em relação ao sistema público. Do ponto de vista do financiamento, além de aumentar o volume do gasto público através da estruturação de política fiscal adequada ao seu financiamento nos moldes constitucionais, a sociedade deve discutir a ampliação das deduções tributárias dos gastos com saúde para setores empresariais intensivos de mão de obra e para pessoas físicas idosas, facilitando o acesso destes segmentos aos cuidados médicos. Não visa esta medida atender à expansão do mercado de planos de saúde e sim à manutenção da capacidade de pagamento dos atuais beneficiários de planos privados. A não adoção deste conjunto de medidas poderá redundar no esgotamento e colapso da capacidade de financiamento da política de saúde como um todo, um dos pilares dos regimes de proteção social do mundo moderno / Abstract: Social protection schemes in countries showing a rapid ageing population dynamic, and that have public and private health care systems which are duplicate and compete against each other and utilize the same public-private medical industrial complex, need to restructure the role of the State, the Family and the Companies in the funding of its health care system. There is a need to adopt strict policies to control spending, increase the rigor in the processes of incorporating technology, regulate the commercialization of high value medical products and services and introduce efficient mechanisms for health insurance portability, seeking to create competition, especially when it comes to price adjustments. In Brazil it is no longer possible to characterize the activity of health plans as "supplemental", which points to the need to revise the regulation between public and private sectors in health care system, since the original conception of the regulatory framework was based on a supplemental system but is in fact a duplicate in terms of its coverage in relation to the public system. From a financing point of view, in addition to increasing the volume of public spending through the structuring of fiscal policy appropriate to its constitutional funding form, society should discuss the expansion of tax deductions with health expenses for labour intensive business sectors and elderly individuals, facilitating their access to health care. This measure does not seek to meet the needs of the expansion of the health plans market, but rather the need to preserve the ability to pay of current private plans beneficiaries. Failure to adopt this set of measures may result in the exhaustion and collapse of the financing capacity of health policy as a whole, one of the pillars of social protection schemes in the modern world / Doutorado / Economia Social e do Trabalho / Doutor em Desenvolvimento Economico

Le rôle de la protection sociale dans un pays, au-delà de son importance pour l’équilibre des rapports sociaux, doit nécessairement tendre vers l’inclusion sociale et le respect de la dignité humaine. Ce travail sur la protection sociale en Mauritanie dénonce et critique toutes formes d’injustice sociale par rapport à l’accès non égalitaire à l’assurance maladie et à la sécurité sociale. En effet, une partie infime de la population mauritanienne bénéficie de ce système, il s’agit des fonctionnaires, agents de l’état, parlementaires, les forces armés en position d’activité.et certains salariés du secteur privé. Le régime de protection sociale en Mauritanie incarne l’exclusion pour une grande majorité de la population mauritanienne. La protection sociale en Mauritanie comme en France a pour objectif de garantir l’individu, la famille contre tous les risques sociaux, d’origine professionnelle ou non professionnelle, susceptibles de diminuer leur revenu en portant atteinte à la capacité de travail (la maladie, l’accident, la vieillesse, le chômage, la maladie à la naissance). Divers systèmes de couverture du risque maladie et de protection sociale sont pratiqués en Mauritanie. Il serait approprié d’engager une vaste réflexion pour assurer l’harmonie et la cohérence du régime mauritanien de protection sociale afin que ce dernier puisse suivre le sillage de la politique française en la matière pour parvenir à un système de protection sociale digne de ce nom, c'est-à-dire universelle. / The role of social protection in a country, beyond its importance for the balance of social relations, must necessarily get to word social inclusion and respect of human dignity. This work on social protection in Mauritania denounces and criticizes all forms of social injustice as non equal access to health insurance and social security is concerned. In fact a very small part of the Mauritanian population benefits of this system, such as official works, state agents, parliamentarians, armed forces in position of activity and some private sector employees. The system of the social protection in Mauritania incarnates the exclusion of a large majority of the population. The social protection in Mauritania as in France is for guarantee the individual, the family against all social risks litters professional or non professional, nature likely to reduce their income by infirming the capacity for work ( illness, accident, old age, joblessness, illness at birth). Various systems of health and social protection converge are applied in Mauritania. It would be appropriate to put in place a wide reflection in order sure the harmony coherence of the Mauritanian social protection system so as it on follow the wake of French policy in this field to achieve a social protection system as result worthy of this name, that means universal.

Magister Commercii - MCom / Given that poverty has remained one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa, an in-depth understanding of the poverty reduction measures implemented by government is necessary. It is important to understand the efficacy of these social protection programmes as huge amounts of government spending is allocated towards it. This paper analyses the impact of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and social grants as some of the social protection measures implemented by the South African government. Literature reviewed in this paper reveals that these anti-poverty measures have contributed significantly towards the reduction of poverty levels in South Africa. The study analyses each social protection measure and uses the Income and Expenditure Survey data (2010/11) and EPWP phase 1 national data to analyse social grants and EPWP respectively. The income decomposition technique is used to analyse household income and the results of the impact of social grants on poverty are presented using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke indices. However, only the results of the prevalence of poverty (headcount) are explained in this study. The results show that social grants have significantly reduced poverty levels in areas with high poverty rates such as the Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces, amongst the African population, in female-headed households, and in rural areas. For EPWP, an estimate of the impact on poverty is done by assessing the number of poor participants who were involved in the programme. Also, the duration of the project is determined and the results indicate that most projects were short lived and did not ensure a consistent provision of income for the participants. Furthermore, the Ordinary Least Squares regression model is used to analyse how expenditure allocation for the programme affects work opportunities produced. Such an investigation is done based on the different sectors in which projects are implemented as well as provincial distributions.

Poverty is an extremely significant issue for Indian society with some estimates suggesting that up to 75% of the Indian population may be poor and deprived of basic necessities to sustain a normally healthy life. Microfinance and social protection are considered as important micro-level strategies to reduce poverty. Literature reveals that both strategies suffer from significant service delivery constraints causing exclusion of a large majority of poor households from access to microfinance, and inclusion and exclusion errors and elite capture of social protection programmes. This research explored whether outreach of microfinance and impact of social protection may be enhanced if microfinance products are built on the provisions of social protection for the poor households, and services of microfinance and social protection are synergistically delivered leveraging on the strengths of each other. The research further explored if it is feasible to employ a State institution, India Post, towards such synergistic service delivery. In order to further these research objectives, financial needs of poor households were estimated, and structures and mechanisms causing the exclusion of the poor from microfinance were investigated, by drawing empirical data from three Indian states. States were sampled while acknowledging that the poor are largely excluded from microfinance in two states of UP and Gujarat, and are almost totally included in the state of AP. This provided me with an opportunity to identify structures and mechanisms excluding the poor from microfinance provisions in UP and Gujarat, and contrast it with the situation in AP to further refine and enrich our understanding. Philosophical basis for design and methodology for this research is provided by critical realism, according to which the goal of social research is to understand the world in order to change it for better. The research is primarily based on the data collected through qualitative research methods as such methods are more suited than quantitative methods to critical realistic intensive studies, attempting to uncover underlying structures and mechanisms causing a social phenomenon. Research findings suggest that the financial needs of poor households in UP and Gujarat either remain unmet, or are met through informal mechanisms which are costly and exploitative. Poor are also not able to entirely access their entitled benefits from social protection programmes; as such programmes generate their own financial needs, which remain largely unmet. It was observed that social protection programmes have a favourable political environment in India and are being increasingly employed as a means to fight poverty. Such programmes therefore constitute an important aspect of the financial environment of the poor. Microfinance programme in AP reaches the poor partly because it is also meeting the financial needs generated by the provisions of social protection and thus the poor households find it useful. Poor also become attractive clients for microfinance due to the assured benefits they receive from the social protection programmes. Thus it addresses both demand and supply side constraints which keep a majority of the poor out of the ambit of microfinance in UP and Gujarat. Such social protection-linked service delivery of microfinance was further observed to be enhancing the impact of social protection as well as of microfinance. It is further argued that India Post is suitably located to deliver such social protection-linked microfinance services due to its close proximity to the rural population, and its personnel being known to and trusted by the local communities. India Post network also has a long and rich experience of delivering financial services. Being a government department, it is in a better position than similarly placed agencies such as banks and NGOs, to coordinate with other government departments offering social protection. Moreover, it has a valuable information-capital on the households that can be leveraged to efficiently identify the prospective recipients of the social protection programmes.

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Bangladesh, a country situated in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta (GBM), is one of the most vulnerable countries to climatic stressors and changes. Low lying coastal region in the southern part of the country is highly vulnerable due to its exposure to frequent and intense cyclones, and other hydro-meteorological coastal hazards, such as projected sea-level rise, storm surges, monsoonal flooding and waterlogging, and saline water intrusion. In addition, there have been significant infrastructure development and land use change across Bangladesh’s coastal regions since the 1960s that contributed to increase environmental risk and vulnerability of coastal communities. This dissertation examines the risks and vulnerabilities faced by the coastal communities, particularly small-scale fisheries and aquaculture-based communities, in Bangladesh and how the households and the government respond to manage these risks and vulnerabilities. Three specific objectives of this dissertation are: a) to explore the risk and vulnerability that coastal households face in Bangladesh in conjunction with main climatic hazards and changes; b) to understand households' temporary internal migration decision-making in the context of climatic stressors and socio-ecological changes; and c) to explore the extent to which social protection programs in the coastal districts of Bangladesh are responsive to environmental and climatic changes facing coastal dwellers, with a focus on whether such programs help households build adaptive capacity. This research is primarily based on a fieldwork in three coastal districts of Bangladesh in 2017. During the fieldwork, the researcher conducted a household survey of 720 households, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The three research objectives lead to three research papers. The first paper of this dissertation constructs household-level vulnerability and risk indices by applying the risk framework offered in the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With the help of these indices, this paper shows the levels of risk of hazards vary among geographical units, income levels and occupational groups. The indices also show that although vulnerability is well-correlated with poverty, risks of hazards are high for upper-income households as well. Applying the New Economics of Labour Migration (NELM) theory and the more recent environmental migration framework proposed by Black et al. (2011), the second paper shows that various types of environmental and climatic stressors impact households’ decisions on temporary migration differently, and alongside environmental and climatic factors, traditional socioeconomic drivers of migration also play significant roles in households’ temporary migration decisions. The third paper applies the adaptive social protection framework and finds poor targeting efficiency and the inability of the social protection system in scaling up when needed. However, the analysis does show poor households benefiting from social protection programs were less likely to use adverse coping strategies and were more likely to adopt productive livelihood strategies including production innovations and diversification. This dissertation contributes to the methods of measuring and understanding risk and vulnerability specific to stressors, locations, income levels and occupations. It also sheds light on the importance of temporary migration as a risk management strategy that received less attention in the literature than permanent migration. Finally, it identifies areas to improve existing social protection programs to make them responsive to emerging risks and vulnerabilities. While addressing three separate but related topics, the papers are consistent in their implication for adaptation planning for coastal communities.