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Exploring women’s perception on birth process through body mapping
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-09)
To explore women's perception on birth process 'body mapping' exercise was conducted with
three different categories of rural women; trained traditional birth attendants (TBA), untrained
TBAs and women who had never ...
Revisiting health of the population: agenda for the future*
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2001)
Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000)
A study was done to assess the impact of mobilization on the change of mothers'
behaviour towards health and nutrition practices. Mobilization was given by
adolescent girls trained on various aspects of health and ...
Combating a deadly menace: early experiences with a community-based arsenic mitigation project in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-08)
Bangladesh is facing the problem of arsenic poisoning in drinking water.
Around 27% of the tubewells, which supply drinking water to most of the
population, have arsenic concentrations above the government of
Bangladesh ...
Drinking no more arsenic: Switching water source through intensive awareness programme in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2002-12)
The study assessed the effects of intensive awareness raising activities implemented from June
1999 to December 2001 among the arsenic exposed people to motivate towards safe water use.
A total of 839 families those who ...
Anemia and iron deficiency during pregnancy in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000)
Objective: To assess the prevalence of anemia, iron deficiency and iron deficiency
anemia (IDA) among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh
Design: Baseline data on 215 pregnant women who were invited to participate in ...
Does involvement of women in BRAC influence sex bias in intra-household food distribution?
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)
This study aimed to assess the sex preference in intra-household food distribution among school
going siblings in a rural area of Bangladesh. The study also examines the effect of women's
involvement in BRAC's rural ...
Post-partum reproductive behavior regarding contraception and breastfeeding in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1996-07)
The study was aimed to obtain information on knowledge of mothers about
fecundity after childbirth and to explore the reproductive behavior of the mothers
related to breastfeeding, postpartum abstinence and contraceptive ...
Effect of BRAC's rural development programme on calorie consumption: evidence from Matlab
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)
This report describes the association between calorie consumption and socioeconomic status indicators and examines the effect of BRAC's Rural Development Programme (RDP) membership on per capita daily calorie consumption. ...
BRAC/DPHE/UNICEF collaboration on community-based Arsenic response
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999)
The severity of the problem of arsenic in ground water in Bangladesh is now well
recognized. 97% of the population relics on ground water for drinking and cooking
purposes and it is estimated that half of the country may ...