Browsing Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Title
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Nutrition promotion and collective vegetable gardening by adolescent girls: Feasibility assessment from a pilot in Afghanistan
(AESS, 2018-10-04)This study aimed to assess the feasibility of collective vegetable gardening into an existing development programme for adolescent girls as a means of improving awareness about health and nutrition and increasing ... -
Paradigm shift or business as usual? workers’ views on multi-stakeholder initiatives in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-02-24)The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future ... -
Participatory environmental governance and climate change adaptation: mainstreaming of tidal river management in South-West Bangladesh
Climate change as a human-induced phenomenon in one hand and the government to governance shift on the other, participatory environmental governance involving wider and deeper participation of civil society in environmental ... -
The political economy of domestic tax reform in Bangladesh: political settlements, informal institutions and the negotiation of reform
This paper explains the persistence of a tax system characterised by low revenue collection and extensive informality in Bangladesh. It combines analysis of long-term formal and informal institutions and of micro-level ... -
Positionality and transformative knowledge in conducting 'feminist' research on empowerment in Bangladesh
This article is based on the experiences and reflections of a group of researchers in Bangladesh (of which we were members) studying women's empowerment. We investigate the kinds of epistemological and ethical dilemmas ... -
Power and influence of islam-based political parties in Bangladesh: perception versus reality
Bangladesh has received scholarly attention about the extent and nature of Islamism in the political domain. We argue that, to analyze the significance of religion in the political process, it is essential to consider the ... -
Public sector corruption in Bangladesh: political and bureaucratic
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Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a bidding game approach
Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income ... -
Resource Booklet CFPR-II Evaluation
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2008-06)Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) is one of the relatively recent additions to BRAC’s long experience with development approaches. This experimental program was launched in 2002 with a complete package ... -
Retention of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a case-control study
Alam, K., Tasneem, S., & Oliveras, E. (2012). Retention of female volunteer community health workers in dhaka urban slums: A case-control study. Health Policy and Planning, 27(6), 477-486. doi:10.1093/heapol/czr059 -
The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
(PLoS journal, 2019-01-24)Over half a million children die each year of diarrheal illness, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS). The literature on ORS documents both impressive health benefits and persistent ... -
Rural Study Series
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 1995-12)The Rural Study Series is a modest venture for dissemination of BRAC research studies concerned with various aspects of rural development in Bangladesh. Poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor, particularly of ... -
Scope and approaches of integrating sustainability issues in public procurement process for sustainable development of Bangladesh
(© 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2017)Achieving sustainable development is one of the challenges of Bangladesh in its attempt to attain the middle-income country status by 2021. Recognising the strategic importance of public procurement, the study seeks to ... -
Security and development - are they two sides of the same coin? Investigating India's two-pronged policy towards left wing extremism
In this article, I investigate India's two-pronged policy approach, which combines security and development intervention to address the root cause and symptoms of left wing extremism. While the two policy sets are meant ... -
Sharique : local governance program in Rajshahi and Sunamganj
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A stepping stone approach to understanding harmful norms
(Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2021-02)Harmful social norms often persist despite legal and economic sanctions against them. Can the abandonment of a harmful norm be facilitated by the presence of a 'mildly harmful' alternative that may act as a stepping stone ... -
Ultra poor and asset transfer in Urban setting: Evidence from slums in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2016-08-09)We use cross-sectional data to assess the impact of the programme on livelihood where propensity score matching technique has been adopted in analysing the data. Results show that programme participants' self-employment, ... -
Violence and the breakdown of the political settlement: An uncertain future for Bangladesh?
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-15)We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history ... -
What constitutes health care seeking pathway of TB patients: A qualitative study in rural Bangladesh
(Atlantis Press, 2019-12)Given the targeted 4–5% annual reduction of tuberculosis (TB) cure cases to reach the “End TB Strategy” by 2020 milestone globally set by WHO, exploration of TB health seeking behavior is warranted for insightful understanding. ... -
Women’s empowerment as a protective factor against intimate partner violence in Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration of the process and limitations of its influence
(© 2016 SAGE Publications Inc., 2017-08)Literature on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and women’s empowerment is contradictory. Findings from a recent survey in rural Bangladesh suggest that empowerment is becoming protective ...