Search
Now showing items 1-4 of 4
Community health workers as agents of change: Negotiating pathways of empowerment
(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 ...
Openings and resistances: Women in the Bangladesh Civil Service
(Routledge, 2016)
Over the past decades, women’s labor force participation (LFP) rate has risen from 26.1 percent in 2002/2003 to 36 percent in 2010. While employment is an important aspect of women’s empowerment and of national development, ...
Women’s representation in the Union Parishad: Local Governance Program Sharique-III
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-07)
There is a need for in-depth analysis of women’s experience in local government and their ability to exercise political agency (i.e., what women do, how they exercise power) to negotiate local level politics and various ...
Women's representation in the union parishad
(BRAC University, 2016-07)