As climate change accelerates, adaptive social protection programmes are becoming increasingly more popular than conventional social assistance programmes, since they are seen to enhance people's resilience and well-being outcomes. Despite this upsurge, little is known about the impacts of adaptive programmes on resilience and well-being outcomes as compared to conventional programmes. This paper examines the economic functions that both types of social protection programmes offer through empirical studies in two climate-vulnerable zones in Bangladesh. By operationalising a simplified analytical framework to comprehend subjective resilience, the qualitative data reveal that the adaptive programme is more effective in enhancing beneficiaries' perceived resilience to climate risks. Regrettably, neither programme is found to contribute much significantly in terms of enabling beneficiaries to achieve the desired well-being outcomes that one might expect to see. The paper offers rich insights into the design components of the programmes, affording an on-the-ground understanding of their implications for resilience and well-being.

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增强农村贫困人口应对气候风险的能力和福祉：社会保护的经济功能是否足够？

随着气候变化的加速，适应性社会保护计划比传统的社会援助计划越来越受欢迎，因为它们被认为可以增强人们的适应力和福祉。尽管出现了这种热潮，但与传统项目相比，适应性项目对恢复力和福祉结果的影响知之甚少。本文通过对孟加拉国两个气候脆弱地区的实证研究，检验了两种类型的社会保护计划提供的经济功能。通过实施简化的分析框架来理解主观复原力，定性数据表明适应性计划在增强受益人对气候风险的感知复原力方面更有效。遗憾的是，在使受益人实现人们可能期望看到的预期福祉结果方面，这两个方案都没有做出太大贡献。该论文对项目的设计组成部分提供了丰富的见解，提供了对其对复原力和福祉的影响的实地理解。