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To produce or not to produce: tackling the tobacco dilemma
(BRAC, 2002-04)
This study seeks to look into the economics of tobacco cultivation in Bangladesh. At tire macro level, tire importance of tobacco farming has been declining. However, a survey conducted on 300
tobacco farmers in 19 villages ...
Enrolment at primary level: gender difference disappears in Bangladesh
(International Journal of Educational Development, 2002-03)
In the recent past, there have 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) ...
Gender barriers to tuberculosis control: fade-out or in? key findings and recommendations from the preliminary analysis
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-09)
Drug abuse in Bangladesh: knowledge, attitude and perceptions of secondary school students
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2001-12)
Indirect technique for estimating life expectancy from limited data set of BRAC female members
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-12)
This paper aims to construct the complete life table (L T) from limited data set of the
female members of BRAC village organizations (VO) using the INDEPTH (International
Network for the continuous Demographic Evaluation ...
Does a community based nutrition project work? an evaluation of the Muktagachha pilot nutrition initiative in Bangladesh
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2001)
A study was undertaken to evaluate the impact of the multidisciplinary Muktagacha
pilot nutrition project on the nutritional status of under-2 children, adolescent girls
and pregnant and lactating mothers in three areas ...
Effectiveness of the daily and weekly doses of iron supplementation in pregnancy and puerperium on Haemoglobin and iron status at 6 weeks postpartum
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000)
Objective: Describe the effectiveness of continuous daily and weekly doses of
iron supplementation during pregnancy and puerperium on haemoglobin and
iron status at 6 weeks postpartum.
Design: An iron supplementation ...
Exploratory study on BRAC's NGO cooperation project
(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 ...
Sustainable community- based safe water options to mitigate the Bangladesh arsenic catastrophe - an experience from two upazilas
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-05)
Sustainable community-based safe water options have been successfully operating in two upazilas
involving 531 villages and encompassing a population of 497,488. Testing of tubewells for arsenic
was carried out on a census ...
Skilled attendance at delivery in Bangladesh: a strategy development tool
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2002-11)
SAFE study aimed to provide new knowledge on the identification, implementation and
evaluation of effective, affordable and equitable strategies to increase Skilled Attendance
at delivery in developing countries. It was ...