Social Protection for Inclusive Growth: A Training and Development Perspective

Inclusive economic growth and sustainable development largely depends on social protection of the population across the globe. Countries, therefore are spending significant amount of money for social protection. In this context, this article aims to examine social protection from a training and development perspective. Social protection concepts basically have evolved from social safety net (SSN) and social security (SS), though there are some conceptual differences among the two. Bangladesh has an adequate policy framework for social protection. All relevant policy and planning documents of the Government of Bangladesh addresses the issue and recently, the Government has launched a six pillar National Social Security Strategy 2015 to cover about ten percent poor population. The article argues for a social protection training and development strategy in order to address the expanded intervention.