Series No. 47
An Assessment of HRLE Shebika with a Focus on their Effectiveness |
| Md. Abdul Alim, Mohammad Rafi |
| July - 2011 |
The study aimed to identify the challenges that the shebikas faced in becoming
proactive against human rights violation (HRV) and find out how they could be made more effective in taking action against HRVs. Both quantitative and qualitativemethods were used for data collection....
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Series No. 46
Profile of the Adolescent Girls: Findings from the Baseline Survey for Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SoFEA) Programme |
| Anindita Bhattacharjee, Narayan C. Das |
| July - 2011 |
This study provides baseline profile of the adolescents from both SoFEA intervention areas and adjacent areas. Adolescent girls from the intervention areas are divided into two groups: girls from new SoFEA intervention areas and girls from areas withSoFEA intervention on the existing ADP clubs....
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Series No. 45
Where NGOs go and do not go? |
| Debdulal Mallick, Munirul H. Nabin |
| May - 2011 |
| investigates the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance programme to mitigate credit market imperfections. We develop a model in which output market imperfections |
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Series No. 44
State of Justice in Chittagong Hill Tracts: Exploring the Formal and Informal Justice Institutions of Indeigenous Communities. |
| Debasish Kumar Kundu, Mrinmoy Samadder, Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Sharin Shajahan Naomi |
| January - 2011 |
| examine the formal and informal justice system of the ethnic communities in CHT in regards to assist Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (HRLS) programme of BRAC for effective extension in this area... |
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Series No. 43
Household Costs of Obtaining Maternal and Newborn Care in Rural Bangladesh: Baseline Survey |
| Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Zahidul Quayyum, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Tim Ensor, Sarah Salahuddin |
| December - 2009 |
| Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Zahidul Quayyum, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Tim Ensor and Sarah Salauddin examine the costs incurred by a household for maternal and newborn care in selected areas of rural Bangladesh... |
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Series No. 42
Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| Debdulal Mallick |
| November - 2009 |
| This paper addressed one aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance programme expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and found that moneylender interest rates increased with microfinance programme expansion... |
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Series No. 41
Socioeconomic Divides in Tuberculosis Control |
| Editor: Fazlul Karim |
| October - 2009 |
| The aims of the study were to measure the prevalence of smear-positive pulmonary TB (PTB) in different population groups, understand the patterns of people’s behaviour of and barriers to healthcare seeking for respiratory illnesses, assess socioeconomic and gender differences in the use of the DOTS services including treatment, and explore the role of the private informal healthcare providers in the DOTS strategy at the community level... |
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Series No. 40
Popular Theatre and BRAC |
| Mohammad Rafi, Hasanur Rahman |
| August - 2009 |
| The objectives of the study include evaluation of the popular theatre of BRAC as being performed, the extent of the messages being communicated through theatre... |
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Series No. 39
The Impact of Asset Transfer on Livelihoods of the Ultra Poor in Bangladesh |
| Akhter U. Ahmed, Mehnaz Rabbani, Munshi Sulaiman, Narayan C. Das |
| April - 2009 |
| This is a collaborative study conducted by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and BRAC Research and Evaluation Division. The study tries to assess the impact of the CFPR programme on livelihoods of the ultra poor in Bangladesh. |
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Series No. 38
Impact of the Food Price Hike on Nutritional Status of Women and Children |
| Munshi Sulaiman, Monira Parveen, Narayan Chandra Das |
| January - 2009 |
| The backdrop of persistence and peculiarities of the malnutrition question in Bangladesh has motivated this study to examine how child and maternal nutritional status has been affected due to the sharp rise in food prices.... |
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