Browsing Social Studies by Author "Chowdhury, AMR"
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Adaptation of Kangaroo Mother Care for community-based application
Quasem, Md. Iftekhar; Sloan, Nancy L.; Chowdhury, Anita; Ahmed, Salahuddin; Winikoff, Beverly; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2002-08)Objective: Working with a multi-disciplinary team of Ecuadorians, Bangladeshis and Americans, we developed a simple protocol for community-based implementation of kangaroo mother care (CKMC) that does not require birth ... -
Beneath the shadows of the BRAC Centre slums of Mohakhali
Khan, Suhaila H; Chowdhury, AMR; Karim, Fazlul (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)This exploratory slum study looked at the demographic, socio-economic, health related, educational, and political characteristics of the slum dwellers living around the BRAC Centre. The study was conducted from April to ... -
BRAC/DPHE/UNICEF collaboration on community-based Arsenic response
Jakariya, Md.; Haque, Salma R.; Nickson, Ross T.; Hossain, Md. Zabed; Chowdhury, AMR (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 ... -
Combating a deadly menace: early experiences with a community-based arsenic mitigation project in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR; Hossain, Md. Zabed; Nickson, Ross; Rahman, Mizanur; Jakariya, Md.; Sharnimuddin, Md. (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 ... -
Comparing changes in basic competency, literacy and enrolment of children in Matlab between 1992 and 1995
Rana, AKM Masud; Chowdhury, AMR; Ahmed, Syed Masud; Bhuiya, Abbas (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-08)In 1995, three year after the baseline survey and initiation of the BRAC-ICDDR'B Joint Research Project in Matlab, a follow up survey was carried out to explore changes in the areas of education. These included enrolment, ... -
Effectiveness of field methods for detecting Arsenic between 0 and 100 ppb in Bangladesh ground water
Nickson, Ross T.; Hossain, Md. Zabed; Jakariya, Md.; Khandakar, Nadim; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-11) -
Exploratory study on BRAC's NGO cooperation project
Karim, Fazlul; Begum, Shamim Ara; Chowdhury, Kabir; Chowdhury, AMR (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 ... -
Family size preferences among Matlab couples
Khan, Shahriar Reza; Chowdhury, AMR; Bhuiya, Abbas (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-12) -
GQAL: from rhetoric to reality
Farashuddin, Fehmin; Khan, Mahmuda Rahman; Mannan, Manzurul; Akter, Shahnuz; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) Progranune was initiated in 1994 to improve the quality of programmes with village women and to improve the quality of . gender relations within BR.AC. In its first year of ... -
Historical perspective of immunization in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR; Ihtesham, Kazi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998) -
Indirect technique for estimating life expectancy from limited data set of BRAC female members
Gani, Md. Showkat; Chowdhury, AMR (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 ... -
Interim report community based arsenic mitigation program: successes and constraints June - October 1999
Jakariya, Md.; Haque, Salma R.; Hossain, Md. Zabed; Nickson, Ross T.; Chowdhury, AMR (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 relies on ground water for drinking and cooking purposes and it is estimated that one third of the country ... -
Political commitment of immunization Programme in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR; Chowdhury, Osman Haider; Islam, Shafiqul (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998) -
Social demand for immunization: results from the Bhairab study
Bhuiya, Abbas; Mol, Dineke; Mahbub, Amina; Sultana, Shagufta; Begum, Shamim Ara; Begum, Insana; Chowdhury, AMR; Karim, Fazlul (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998) -
A study of the impact of BRAC's programme on the community networks in a village Matlab, Bangladesh
Ara, Shamin; Bhuiya, Abbas; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998-09) -
Sustainable community- based safe water options to mitigate the Bangladesh arsenic catastrophe - an experience from two upazilas
Jakariya, Md.; Chowdhury, AMR; Hossain, Zabed; Rahman, Mizanur; Sarkar, Quaiyum; Khan, Ruhul Islam; Rahman, Mahfuzar (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 ... -
Taking research to non-researchers: the case of a research compendium of BRAC
Ahmed, Hasan Shareef; Ullah, AKM Ahsan; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-11)The study assessed the readership of Nirjash, a vernacular research compendium of BRAC. Since its inception in 1995, five issues have been produced. In 1998 we conducted a readership survey on its usefulness, accessibility, ... -
Why students dropout in the first six months of enrollment: a comprehensive study on the BRAC’s education programme
Khan, Md. Kaisar Ali; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-04)