government schemes like the rural employment opportunities for productive assets as well as nongovernmental programmes such as brac s challenging the frontiers of poverty reduction cfpr and the chars livelihood programme box 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