Browsing BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED) Archive by Title
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Factors influencing utilization of Manoshi delivery centers in urban slums of Dhaka
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2009-12)BRAC introduced Manoshi - a community-based maternal, neonatal and child health initiative in urban slums of Bangladesh in 2007. Community delivery centers were established to provide appropriate management of delivery ... -
Family size preferences among Matlab couples
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Features of loan disbursement at matlab RDP during 1992-1995
(BRAC, 1996)BRAC's credit programme forms the core of the Rural Development Programme (RDP), itself the central programme of BRAC's development interventions. In the context of the BRAC - ICDDR,B Joint Research Project in Matlab, ... -
Female-headed households and the ultra poor in Bangladesh
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2000-12)This report focuses on the magnitude of FHHs among the poorest and examines their socio-economic profile to highlight the distinction between FHHs and the entire sample. Female-headed households (FHHs) are of two types: ... -
Fertility in Bangladesh villages: socio-economic and community differentials
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-11)Abstract: This report assesses the role of development programme in reducing fertility in rural Bangladesh. Data for this research came from Watch, a demographic and health surveillance system of BRAC covering 70 villages ... -
Fighting arsenic at the grassroots: experience of BRAC's community awareness initiative in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2002)The study evaluates the arsenic mitigation project of BRAC in raising awareness of arsenic poisoning in rural communities in Bangladesh. Data came from selected project villages in south-western Bangladesh. Comparison villages ... -
Fighting arsenic at the grassroots: experience of the community awareness initiative of BRAC in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2001)The study evaluates the arsentc mitigation project of BRAC in ra1smg the awareness of arsenic poisoning in the rural communities in Bangladesh. Data came from the selected villages in the southwestern Bangladesh where ... -
Financing SMEs and its effect on employment generation: a study of brae bank's SME lending
(BRAC, 2005)Financial and development assistance designed specially for small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh is a new and upcoming trend. After the surge of micro-finance in the last two decades, small and medium enterprises ... -
Financing the BRAC Health Centres: their financial sustainability and cost-effectiveness
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-01)The Health ana Population Division (HPO) of BRAC aims to provide supportive secondary level health care services for the community through the BRAC Health Centres (BHCs) or Shushasthyos. The BHCs began operating in HPO ... -
FIVIMS in Bangladesh: a tool for comprehensive data management and use
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-07) -
Flood '98 and BRAC - a case study on three slums in Dhanmandi area of Dhaka city
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-10)This study is on Kathal Bagan, Bou Bazaar and Hazaribagh slums in Dhanmondi Area in Dhaka city of Bangladesh. It describes mainly the suffetings of the slum dwellers during floods, their coping strategy, the extent of ... -
Folk terminology for Diarrhea in rural Bangladesh
(Oxford University Press, 1991-03-01)Diarrhea, a descriptive term used in medical science for a variety of clinical diseases denotes an illness that is categorized differently and known by numerous terms in various cultures. These diversified classifications ... -
A follow-up study of the teachers of BRAC schools who lost their job due to shifting of school
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-08)This study aimed at examining the changes that occur in the lives of the former teachers of BRAC schools who lost their job due to the shifting of schools after completion of the cycles. A total of 386 ex-teachers was ... -
Food aid and sustainable livelihoods: BRAC's innovations against hunger
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-07)The study aims to examine the situation of the poor in Bangladesh and analyse the experiences of BRAC in ensuring food security for the extreme poor through its two specially designed programmes: (a) Income Generation ... -
Food consumption pattern and dietary diversity
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Food security and the ultra poor
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2000-12)This paper aims to derive some policy guidelines by analysing factors affecting food security of the ultra poor. Here more emphasis is given on the number of rice meals taken and the sources of rice consumed during the ... -
The food supplementation process in BRAC areas under the National Nutrition Programme (NNP): an exploratory study
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Fulshaind Pollishasthya Unnayan Kendra: report of the baseline survey 1997
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)
