Browsing Social Studies by Issue Date
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Impact assessment of BRAC's human rights and legal education training
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)The huge training investment of BRAC calls for an answers to the questions -- what is the impact of the training on BRAC programs and on its recipient? This study endeavors to answer these questions. As a part of this ... -
Environmental awareness in rural Bangladesh: levels and differentials
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-01)This report assesses the level of environmental awareness in the rural communities of Bangladesh. Findings reveal that nearly half of the people were aware about the change of environment and its implications although ... -
Initial Environmental Examination (IEEE) of BRAC dairy and food project
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Household violence against women in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-03)The prevalence of household violence against women is high in Bangladesh. Poverty, illiteracy and religious values are usually blamed for such violence. This report assesses the prevalence and determinants of violence ... -
Status of Non Formal Primary Education (NFPE) at Chandina: a baseline survey
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Beneath the shadows of the BRAC Centre slums of Mohakhali
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)This exploratory slum study looked at the demographic, socio-economic, health related, educational, and political characteristics of the slum dwellers living around the BRAC Centre. The study was conducted from April to ... -
GQAL: from rhetoric to reality
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) Progranune was initiated in 1994 to improve the quality of programmes with village women and to improve the quality of . gender relations within BR.AC. In its first year of ... -
An emic towards well-being
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)Usually much attention has not been paid to people's perspective towards their own wellbeing in the nation level. In fact it is rare to find national level studies on realities about people's well-being and People's idea ... -
A survey on English linguistic ability of the government primary school children prior to introduction of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) Programme
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-08)With the a£.f Directorate of Primary Education (DEP) of the government of Bangladesh, BRAC is introducing the Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programme on a pilot basis in 17 government primary schools. The primary ... -
Backlash against posters of BRAC's human rights & legal education program
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-09)The Human Rights and Legal Education program of BRAC was initiated with the assumption that if the legal awareness of its clients was raised they would be able to protect themselves· from illegal, unfair or discriminatory ... -
Trends and differentials in school enrollment in Bangladesh villages
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-09)Based on data from a nationally representative sample survey of children aged 6-15, the author concludes that the enrollment rate has been declining since 1995 particularly among the boys in the rural areas of Bangladesh. ... -
Small groups and performance of village organizations in rural development programme of BRAC
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-09)BRAC's Rural Development Programme (RDP) fonns the village organizations (VO) by formulating their objectives precisely and by laying out explicitly the activities within it that the members comprising it need to carry ... -
Gender and environment framework/ agenda
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Impact of non-formal primary education on women's autonomy and socialisation in rural Bangladesh: evidence from BRAC villages
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-10)This paper investigates the impact of non-formal primary education programme of BRAC on women's autonomy and socialisation. The study was conducted in 87 villages in Manikganj district of central Bangladesh. The data ... -
Demographic and socio-cultural consequences of international migration in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-10)This research examines demographic and socio-cultural consequences of south-north migration in the south at the family-level Using data from a nationally representative sample survey of 1,030 families in Bangladesh, the ... -
Alternative agriculture in Bangladesh: a study of UBINIG, CDA, and PROSHIKA Programmes
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-12) -
Performance and effectiveness of School Management Committees (SMC) of BRAC schools
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)The study examined the School Management Committees of NFPE schools. With the knowledge of supposed ineffectiveness of the committees, the goal was to find out what practices could be reinstated, or what could be done ... -
Overseas migration and the well-being of those left behind in rural communities of Bangladesh
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International labor migration and women's status of the left behind the case of Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)While the role of remittance sent by the migrant labors on economic development of the sending communities has received much attention, the non-economic consequences of international migration on the left behind family ... -
Political commitment of immunization Programme in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)