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Transition from BRAC RED to BRAC University
The Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC was established in 1975 as a multi-disciplinary independent research unit within the framework of BRAC. The division had played an integral role in designing BRAC’s development interventions, monitoring progress, documenting achievements, and undertaking impact assessment studies. It provided an analytical basis for BRAC’s programmatic decisions, fine-tuning it for better performance and making development efforts evidence-based, effective, and community-sensitive.
Seeking inspiration from RED and to bridge development practice with academic knowledge with a focus on professional and life skill development, resulted in the inception of BRAC University in 2001. The University was established with the mission to foster the national development process through the creation of a center of excellence in higher education that is responsive to society's needs, and able to develop creative leaders.
Being an independent entity and being associated with BRAC, the largest NGO in the world, gives BRAC University a unique opportunity to cultivate its research and knowledge base further through synergizing academic knowledge with learnings from development interventions. This eventually translated into the initial step towards the transition of BRAC RED. In 2018 BRAC RED was merged with three institutes of BRAC University. These institutions apply praxis-oriented approach and involve the community or group under study in the research process through transformation of tacit knowledge into action-oriented research that facilitates translation of research into global knowledge stream.
The three institutions that broadly reflect the main domain of BRAC:- BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH)
- BRAC Institute of Educational Development (BRAC IED)
- BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
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Where NGOs go and do not go?
(BRAC, 2011-05)We aim to investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance programme to mitigate credit market imperfections. We develop a model in which output market imperfections increase operating ... -
Sustaining health: the role of BRAC's community health volunteers in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Uganda
(BRAC, 2011-09)This study fills an important gap in current understanding about a critical aspect of BRAG's health programmes - the financial sustainability of the community health volunteers (commonly referred to as Shasthya Shebikas ... -
An emic towards well-being
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)Usually much attention has not been paid to people's perspective towards their own wellbeing in the nation level. In fact it is rare to find national level studies on realities about people's well-being and People's idea ... -
Why students dropout in the first six months of enrollment: a comprehensive study on the BRAC’s education programme
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Socio-economic and cultural reasons for dropout of NFPE urban children (an exploratory study)
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Social factors underlying gender variation of school enrollment case of rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-07) -
Role of education on child labor
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Family size preferences among Matlab couples
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Development of standardized achievement tests for BRAC NFPE Schools
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995)Measurement of learners' achievement in schools continues to be a great concern to educational administrators, teachers and guardians. Learner's status in the school, his/her future endeavors and many other personal ... -
Child labor in Bangladesh villages: incidence, correlates and implications
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-12)The paper aims to improve our understanding about the prevalence and determinants of child labor in rural Bangladesh. Data for this study were obtained from 1995 sample survey of 3,809 eligible children aged 5 to 14 years ... -
Barriers to participation in BRAC RDP
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-11)As part of the BRAC RDP Impact Assessment Study (lAS), a participatory wealth ranking exercise stratified households into four socio-economic groups: groups 1 and 2 being wellendowed with land, assets and generally without ... -
Self-report and test discrepancy evidence from national literacy survey in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-11)This paper aims to explore the discrepancy between self-reported and test based literacy estimates. The Education Watch national literacy survey data of 2002 were used to do so, where literacy status of a nationally ... -
Role of local elites and village level sanitation
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-12)This study aimed to explore the role of local elites and associated factors that prevent or promote sanitation facilities to the poor. The study was conducted in five communities of tive villages of Nilphamari and ... -
Reaching primary education at the doorstep of the poor: the BRAC experience
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-10)It is a review paper on BRAC education programme. Starting with a description of the country context of the initial days of the programme it describes how the programme was developed and implemented, and expended throughout ... -
Out of school children in the tea gardens and ethnic minority communities
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-11)Although many countries in the world have moved from compulsory primary education to compulsory secondary education and many increased the duration of primary and basic education from 4-5 years to more than six years, ... -
Needs of ethnic minority students for learning improvement in secondary schools
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-12)This study aimed to investigate the needs of ethnic minority students for learning improvement in secondary schools through an in-depth understanding of the factors affecting their poor performance. Findings reconfirmed ... -
Need assessment of a short course on educational evaluation and assessment
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-12)The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of a new course on educational evaluation and assessment. In-depth interviews were carried out with a checklist prepared through field trials. Number of respondents ... -
A study on BRAC's Palli Shamaj
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-09)Palli Shamaj is a ward-level organization consisting of representatives from several village organizations of BRAC and outside poor members. The study aims to depict a regional density mapping of geographical distribution ... -
Trends and differentials in school enrollment in Bangladesh villages
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-09)Based on data from a nationally representative sample survey of children aged 6-15, the author concludes that the enrollment rate has been declining since 1995 particularly among the boys in the rural areas of Bangladesh. ... -
The impact of BRAC's education programme on raising basic education levels for the children of rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)
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