The impacts of rural development project on resilience to climatic disasters: The case of Bangladesh

Bokyeong Park and Haggai Kennedy Ochieng

World Development, 2024, vol. 180, issue C

Abstract: This study assesses the effects of a comprehensive rural development project on resilience to a climate shock, using the case Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities (SZHC) project implemented in central Bangladesh from 2014 to 2017. The project is suitable to such assessment since the target area was flood-prone and experienced major flooding during the project. Moreover, the project took holistic approaches that tackle multiple dimensions of vulnerability simultaneously, rather than addressing them in isolation. This study focuses on resilience capacities underpinning resilience and supposes that they are composed of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacity. After identifying various indicators to measure each capacity, the study estimates their average treatment effects on the treated using the propensity score matching method. The results show that the SZHC project significantly helped the households’ recovery from the flood in terms of food security and livelihood, and mostly enhanced the three resilience capacities: increased income and assets, reduced disruption in child education, diversified income sources, and strengthened social capital such as women's community participation.

Keywords: Resilience; Resilience capacity; Rural development; Natural disaster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106631

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