Browsing by Subject "Women empowerment"
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Proposal Jamalpur women's programme 1986-1988
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Proposal Manikganj integrated project: January 1988 to December 1989
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Report on Jamalpur women's programme, January to December 1976
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Report on Manikganj integrated project: June 1983 - June 1984
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Revisiting women empowerment: a retrospect on the other side of readymade garment industry
(BRAC Univeristy, 2016-12)Empowerment in the garments industry is the pivot of a seesaw, where at one end there are women and then there’s the other end that carries all the obstacles. This study works with women empowerment concentrating on ... -
Role of skilled female construction worker (Mason) in post- earthquake reconstruction and their Socio-Economic changes: a case of Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal
(Brac University, 2019-09)Women are seen as a vulnerable group in most of the disasters, but disasters do not only increase women’s vulnerabilities; rather, it also makes women socio-economically empowered by giving opportunity in post-disaster ... -
Rural women empowerment through microcredit: a comparative study between a small microcredit unit of leading go (BRDB) and NGO (BRAC) in Savar Upazila
(Brac University, 2020-02)Microcredit has been disbursing among the rural women without collateral for last few decades for the ‘well being’ and empowerment of them. This study investigates the women empowerment through microcredit following mixed ... -
Socioeconomic impact of BRAC Schools
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2002)BRAC, one of the largest NGOs in Bangladesh, stru1ed the Non-formal Primary Education (NFPE) programme to help achieve its twin objectives of poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. BRAC firmly believes that the ... -
TARA women’s banking: a new dimension of women empowerment
(BRAC University, 2019-01-15)BRAC Bank Limited is one of the successful financial institute of Bangladesh. For 17 years it has been contributing our economy and taking part to develop the socio economic activates in every part of Bangladesh. This ... -
Women’s decision making from men’s view: a perception analysis from the city of Dhaka
(Brac University, 2018-12)The ability of women to make decisions that affect the personal circumstances of their own lives is an essential aspect of empowerment and serves as an important contributor to women’s overall welfare. There has been ... -
Women’s empowerment and aggregate shocks: Evidence from an RCT in Ebola-Hit Sierra Leone
(International Growth Centre, 2017-10)The condition of women in developing countries is characterized by low economic empowerment and limited agency over their body. This paper evaluates a policy intervention aimed at relaxing these constraints for adolescent ... -
Women’s empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa
(World Bank, 2018-12)Women in developing countries are disempowered relative to their contemporaries in developed countries. High youth unemployment and early marriage and childbearing interact to limit human capital investment and enforce ...