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    • Early marriage, bride price and the practice of dowry in Bangladesh villages 

      Hadi, Abdullahel (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-04)
      This study estimates the incidence and correlates of early marriage and the practice of dowry in rural Bangladesh. Data for this research came from Watch, a surveillance system of BRAC covering 70 villages in I 0 regions ...

    • Education for empowerment: a note on BRAC's Human Rights and Legal Education Programme (HRLEP) at Matlab 

      Huda, Samiha (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1996)
      This study attempts to address selected aspects of BRAC's Human Rights and Legal Education Programme (HRLEP) in Matlab Thana. HRLEP at Matlab began in January 1996 through training of the members of village organizations ...

    • Education Watch 2001 : renewed hope daunting challenges 

      Chowdhury, A Mushtaque R; Nath, Samir R; Choudhury, Rasheda K; Manzoor Ahmed (Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2002)
      The Education Watch came into existence in 1998. The first report of the Watch titled Hope not Complacency: Stale of Primary Ed11cation in Bangladesh was published in 1999. The main purpose of this report was to look ...

    • Effectiveness of field methods for detecting Arsenic between 0 and 100 ppb in Bangladesh ground water 

      Nickson, Ross T.; Hossain, Md. Zabed; Jakariya, Md.; Khandakar, Nadim; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-11)

    • Effectiveness of teachers training in BRAC schools 

      Sultan, Sania; Khan, Md. Kaisar Ali; Imam, Syeda Rumnaz (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-03)
      The study attempted to evaluate the newly designed training module for teachers who are teaching English in class three, four, and five of BRAC NFPE schools. With the knowledge of BRAC graduates' relative weakness in ...

    • Effects of BRAC's development inputs on women's lives 

      Huda, Samiha; Khan, Mahmuda Rahman; Mahmud, Simeen; Khan, Shahriar Reza; Chowdhury, Mushtaque; Bhuiya, Abbas; Khan, Munirul Islam (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1996-10)
      The BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint Research Project consists of two phases of research, analysis and interpretation over a 6-year project cycle. Initiated in 1992, research in Phase I (1992- 1995) involved a large cross-sectional ...

    • An emic towards well-being 

      Mahbub, Amina; Roy, Rita Das (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 ...

    • Emotional stress and coping mechanisms: experience of poor rural women from Matlab, Bangladesh 

      Ahmed, Syed Masud; Chowdhury, Mushtaque; Bhuiya, Abbas (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)
      Poverty is increasingly being recognised as a risk factor_ for both the development and the maintenance of common mental problems such as anxiety and depression. T-his study explored the experience of emotional stress ...

    • Enrollment at primary level: gender difference disappears in Bangladesh 

      Chowdhury, A. Mushtaque R.; Nath, Samir Ranjan; Choudhury, Rasheda K. (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-12)
      In the recent past, there has been a number of new initiatives to improve the access to primary education in many developing countries. Such initiatives, which came from the public, private and non-governmental (NGO) ...

    • Environmental assessment guidelines for BRAC’s rural development programme 

      Child, Emma (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-04)
      The study aimed to provide some guidelines for BRAC's fisheries and sericulture projects to minimise the negative environmental impacts. The methodologies described here are the simple EIA (Environmental Initial Assessment) ...

    • Environmental awareness in rural Bangladesh: levels and differentials 

      Hadi, Abdullahel (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 ...

    • Environmental examination of BRAC poultry farms and feed mills 

      Tareq, Md. Ashiqul Hasib; Akter, Nasima (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-09)
      The study aimed to identify activities of poultry rearing that are environmentally sensitive; to investigate waste disposal system, health risk and impacts of various poultry programme activities on environment and also ...

    • Environmental investigation of The Sericulture Programme and The Ayesha Abed Foundation 

      Akter, Nasima; Rahman, Amina (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-03)
      Objectives: Assessment of the potential environmental problems of the programme activities including environmental and health concerns, identify remedial measures to reduce the adverse impact on the environment and public ...

    • Environmental sanitation in participatory development approach: experience of NGOs in Bangladesh 

      Hadi, Abdullahel (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)

    • Evaluating training cascade mechanism: a methodology and a case study 

      Rafi, Mohammad (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2004)
      Training has increasingly turned into an important NGO tool for rural development in Asia and Africa. Such an use has made it essential to assess the impact of these training sessions. Again a good portion of these ...

    • An evaluation of BRAC village organisations: focusing on selected indicators 

      Kamal, FM; Hadi, Abdullahel; Hauqe, Fazlul; Hussain, Alamgir (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-03)
      1. The study was based on a conceptual premise that BRAC's credit-plus approach not only helps improve economic condition of the rural poor by disbursing loan, but its group formation, conscietisation, skill training and ...

    • Evaluation of Environmental Awareness Training of BRAC 

      Jakariya, Md.; Akter, Nasima; Rahman, Mizanur; Sharmin, Lammia; Hossain, Zabed (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-12)

    • An evaluation of primary text materials in terms of the coverage of graded attainable terminal competencies 

      Kalam, Md. Abul; Ghosh, Sanat K. (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-04)
      The world conference on Education for All 1990, at Jomtien, Thailand, set a new goal for the developing countries around the world to educate people of these countries with basic education. As a signatory to the declaration ...

    • Exploratory study on BRAC's NGO cooperation project 

      Karim, Fazlul; Begum, Shamim Ara; Chowdhury, Kabir; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-08)
      BRAC embarked on an NGO Cooperation Project to enhance efficiency of the small and medium NGOs in effective micro-finance management vis-a-vis augmentation of micro-finance activities for poverty alleviation. The newly ...

    • Exploring changes in the lives of BRAC women: a gender perspective 

      Mahbub, Amina (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-10)
      This qualitative study conducted (to explore the changes in ideology, attitudes and aspirations of the rural women involved with BRAC Village Organizations (VO) with "- respect to gender equity.' Being a part of BRAC-ICDDR,B ...