Government schemes like the Rural Employment Opportunities for Productive Assets,8 as well as non-governmental programmes such as BRAC’s9 Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) and the Chars Livelihood Programme (Box 6.2),10 have shown how social protection instruments can give the boost households need to escape the poverty trap. Nearannual monsoon floods deposit fertile silt that supports the agriculture on which the majority of residents depend. The floods and associated erosion, however, can also leave families homeless and contribute to disease and lack of employment, they often force Char dwellers to migrate, rendering them even more vulnerable. It is estimated that Char households relocate between five and seven times each generation.