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Primary education in Bangladesh: policy transfer, external influence and national ownership
(BRAC University, 2013-07)
This paper aims to explain and analyze how external influence works to transfer the policy
agenda from the international practices in the country’s primary education sector and assess
the national ownership in the context ...
Women’s empowerment and aggregate shocks: Evidence from an RCT in Ebola-Hit Sierra Leone
(International Growth Centre, 2017-10)
The condition of women in developing countries is characterized by low economic empowerment and limited agency over their body. This paper evaluates a policy intervention aimed at relaxing these constraints for adolescent ...
Institutional approach to anti-corruption: an evaluation of the Anti Corruption Commission in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2013-07)
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 ...
Democratic consolidation in Bangladesh: a reality check
(BRAC University, 2013-07)
Development and human security in Asia: an analysis from human rights and cultural relativism point of view
(BRAC University, 2015-10)
This paper attempts to discuss the conflict between the liberal doctrine of Universal Human Rights
and cultural relativism from the view point of development and human security in Asia. Using the
Universal Declaration ...
Geo-politics, democratization and external influence: the Bangladesh case
(BRAC University, 2013-03)
Bangladesh’s strategic importance is enormous as it is located at the heart of two very important
regions of the globe and might turn out to be a hub in South and Southeast Asia. Recognizing the
country’s strategic ...
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 ...
Integration of the ultra poor into mainstream development: How effective is CFPR?
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2010-12)
The paper aims to understand the dynamics of participation of the Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) members of Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) phase I in the financial market since their graduation from ...
Impact of char development and settlement project on improving the livelihood of char dwellers
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2011-01)
The Char Development and Settlement Project (CDSP) was a joint initiative of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of Bangladesh to achieve sustainable livelihood development of coastal char ...