Survey Protocol for Research on 'Vulnerability to Poverty: Insurance Role of Microsavings against Crises in Two Villages in Northeast Rural Bangladesh'

This protocol is a systematic narration of my fieldwork in Bangladesh for postgraduate research at the School Social Sciences, University of East London. Main aim of the research is to investigate crises coping strategies of households and insurance role of microsaving in reducing vulnerability to poverty in north eastern rural Bangladesh. Underlying research question is: How do rural people strengthen their capacity against vulnerability and how microsavings contribute in this process? There are three broad data requirement categories for this question: 1) Vulnerability to poverty 2) Crises management capacity and 3) Insurance role of microsavings. Data collection methods are both qualitative and quantitative in nature. Qualitative method uses Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Quantitative method employs semistructured questionnaire and Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) for each randomly selected households. The survey was held in two randomly selected villages in north eastern region of Bangladesh