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Community health workers as agents of change: Negotiating pathways of empowerment
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-09)
In Bangladesh, health and family planning programs were the first major employers of rural women in outside paid work. Thus, women community health workers became the pioneers in bringing rural women into outside formal ...
Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference? experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts
(Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), 2016-04)
The paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with ‘student brigades’ (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in school) ...
How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
(Brooks World Poverty Institute, 2010-10)
We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programs, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this ...
Relationship between democracy and development: Evidence from Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-09)
The paper examines the effect of democracy on the development outcomes of Bangladesh for the period 1972 to 2016. It analyzes both the long-run relation and the direction of causality using the Vector Error Correction Model ...
Cost-benefit study on implementing village courts in union parishads of Bangladesh
(Copenhagen Consensus Center, 2016)
Justice is considered an important element of public service in any state. Apart from the formal system of justice in Bangladesh, two types of rural justice systems are prevalent amongst the rural community: Non-rural ...
Need assessment of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017-08)
There has been a continued influx of the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) across the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar since 25 August 2017. As a consequence, the large numbers of people (FDMN) have unexpectedly ...
The under reporting of women’s economic activity in Bangladesh: An examination of official statistics
(BRAC Development Institute (BDI), 2011-02)
In Bangladesh, women are engaged in a variety of economic activities ranging from homestead based expenditure saving activities to outside paid work. However, women’s work always remains under-reported, especially women’s ...
Paradox of change in women’s capabilities: Case of two villages in Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-08)
The paper seeks to understand why women’s capabilities and outcomes significantly vary in two apparently similar contexts characterized by prosperity, international migration and religiosity. By analyzing the data from two ...
How sustainable are the impacts of vocational training?: Evidence from BRAC’s intervention
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2018-06)
In Bangladesh, the school dropout rates at both the primary and secondary level are quite high. Majority of the school dropout children end up unemployed or in low-quality jobs. Hence, training programs can be a potential ...
Factors influencing the performance of a public private partnership in the digital services sector
(https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/factors-influencing-the-performance-of-a-public-private-partnership-in-the-digital-services-sector/, 2015-11)
The paper empirically investigates the performance of a Public-Private-Partnership initiative to spread public digital services in Bangladesh. The government established digital centres, run by two-member private entrepreneurial ...