Browsing Working Papers (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Title
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Access to urban basic services and determinants of satisfaction: a comparison by non-slum and slum dwellers in Dhaka city
(BRAC University, 2013-06)Dhaka has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades. However, the city’s infrastructure and basic utility service provisions lag behind its physical expansion making it one of the least livable cities in the world. ... -
Access to water in urban poor settlements: addressing crisis through good governance
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Addressing extreme poverty in a sustainable manner: Evidence from CFPR program
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2010-06)BRAC initiated an innovative program known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) in 2002 to address the extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Impact assessment studies on the first phase of CFPR (2002-06) have ... -
Assessment of road safety awareness and knowledge among drivers and community people: A baseline study
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2016-12)The baseline study was initiated by the Research and Evaluation Division at BRAC, highlighting the aim of BRAC's road safety program to achieve zero fatal road accidents. To understand this dynamic of road accidents with ... -
An assessment of road safety knowledge of drivers and community: An impact evaluation of the project intervention
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2015-12)The endline study was undertaken by the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC. Highlighting the aim of BRAC's road safety program of achieving zero fatal road accidents, the existing community-centric knowledge was ... -
Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2012-12)The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. However, whether their economic lives can be transformed by programs which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing ... -
Backlash in action? or inaction? stalled implementation of the domestic violence (prevention and protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)While the formulation and enactment of the Act was an achievement for the government and the coalition that championed it (the Citizens’ Initiative Against Domestic Violence, CIDV), its implementation has been weak. In ... -
Bangladesh bank reform : changes and challenges
(BRAC University, 2007-04)The Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh, has been subject to an ongoing series of reforms. This paper provides an analytical description of the structure of the Bangladesh Bank; it reviews the reforms from their ... -
Bangladesh public service commission : perceptions, problems and predictions
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Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) approach for BRAC: A formative research
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2019-02)As a part of social development, BRAC has been working in the Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) areas of its program participants for decades. Facing a revolutionary technological change, it is time to rethink the ... -
Being new Poor in Bangladesh: Coping strategies, constraints, and trajectories
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-28)Recent research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh reveals the struggles of millions who fell into poverty, unable to regain their pre-pandemic economic status. Drawing on qualitative panel data from 39 ... -
Beyond dropout: A study on BRAC Primary School
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2010-11)This study explored the reasons for dropout of students from BRAC primary schools. Data were collected in two phases through qualitative and quantitative methods. In the first phase, 681 schools were visited to find out ... -
Building social capital for the ultra poor: Challenges and achievements
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2005-03)BRAC introduced a program designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called Challenging the Frontier of Poverty Reduction: Targeting Ultra Poor (TUP) program in 2002. The program consists of economic and health ... -
Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference? experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts
(Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), 2016-04)The paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with ‘student brigades’ (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in school) ... -
Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2013-04)Does the lack of capital and skills drive occupational choice and poverty? We provide evidence from a large scale and long term Randomized Control Trial of a program that simultaneously provides assets and training to the ... -
Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2019-03)Changing women’s lives through empowerment resources is important, but there are debates on how different resources of empowerment change women’s lives differently. Paid work is seen to be one of the major resources for ... -
Cheaper, cleaner power: De-risking as an anti-collusion strategy in Bangladesh
(ACE SOAS Consortium, 2020-06)Collusive contracting with private power plants in Bangladesh has resulted in high power prices that cost the taxpayer around US$1 billion a year in subsidies, as well as the selection of environmentally damaging fuels and ... -
Citizen’s charter and its effectiveness: a case study of department of immigration and passports of Bangladesh
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Climate change finance and governance: Bangladesh perspectives
(BRAC University, 2012-07)