Browsing by Subject "Social norms"

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    • Achieving gender equality through challenging social norms: BRAC’s Polli Shomaj program 

      Qayum, Nayma; Hassan, Mirza; Aziz, Syeda Salina (Brac UniversityTaylor & Francis, 2023-06-21)
      Can NGOs implement rights-based gender equality programs when donor focus on the area is shrinking? This paper explores how one development program has made strategic choices incorporating the interests of multiple ...

    • Community health workers as agents of change: Negotiating pathways of empowerment 

      Mahmud, Simeen; Sultan, Maheen (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-09)
      In Bangladesh, health and family planning programs were the first major employers of rural women in outside paid work. Thus, women community health workers became the pioneers in bringing rural women into outside formal ...

    • A stepping stone approach to understanding harmful norms 

      Gulesci, Selim; Jindani, Sam; Ferrara, Eliana La; Smerdon, David; Sulaiman, Munshi; Young, Peyton (Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2021-02)
      Harmful social norms often persist despite legal and economic sanctions against them. Can the abandonment of a harmful norm be facilitated by the presence of a 'mildly harmful' alternative that may act as a stepping stone ...