Challenges to building social capital through planned adaptation: Evidence from rural communities in Bangladesh

This paper examines the challenges of building social capital through group-based CBA interventions in rural coastal Bangladesh. Drawing on four female-led community organisations, the authors argue that strengthening social capital was obstructed by embedded sociocultural norms and external organisational assumptions. The study concludes that CBA needs an intersectional lens on gender rather than a simplistic male-versus-female binary.