| Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance |
| Uttam Kumar Deb (CPD), Mahabub Hossain (BRAC), Steve Jones (Independent Consultant, UK) |
| May - 2009 |
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| Ensuring national food security is a vital concern of all governments. Until the early 1990s, the Government of Bangladesh aimed to achieve food security by following a policy of self-sufficiency... |
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| Pathways Out of Extreme Poverty: Findings from round I survey of CFPR phase II |
| Research and Evaluation Division |
| March - 2009 |
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| This report brings together the findings from a large scale, and comprehensive baseline survey of the second phase of CFPR: the BRAC pioneered programme for the ultra poor.... |
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| Impact of Food Price Rise on School Enrolment and Dropout in the Poor and Vulnerable Households in Selected Areas of Bangladesh |
| Selim Raihan, DU |
| March - 2009 |
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| Recently this study was commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in response to the food price hikes in 2007 and 2008. The study was undertaken by leading expert. The study was discussed at national forums in Dhaka in February and April 2009. |
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| Getting Agriculture Moving Once Again: Strategic Options for Post-HYV Agriculture in Bangladesh |
| M. Asaduzzaman, BIDS |
| March - 2009 |
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| This study was commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in response to the food price hikes in 2007 and 2008... |
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| Malaria Baseline Socioeconomic and Prevalence Survey 2007 |
| Syed Masud Ahmed (BRAC), Md. Akramul Islam (BRAC),Rashidul Haque (ICDDR,B) and Moazzem Hossain (GoB) |
| December - 2008 |
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| The baseline survey aimed to study i) the knowledge/awareness of the respondents on malaria ii) their health-seeking behaviour relevant to malaria iii) study the possession and use patterns of bed net iv) the prevalence of malarial infection and its distribution... |
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WASH Programme of BRAC--Towards Attaining the MDG Targets
Baseline Findings |
WASH Research Team
Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC |
| July - 2008 |
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| Resource Booklet: CFPR-II Evaluation |
| Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC-RED), Selim Gulesci (STICRED-LSE) |
| June - 2008 |
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| The objective of this resource book is to present an outline of the research framework and evaluation design of CFPR in the second phase.... |
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| Crafting a Graduation Pathway for the Ultra Poor: Lessons and Evidence from a BRAC programme |
| Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman, Mehnaz Rabbani |
| Issue - 109 May - 2008 |
| CPRC Working Paper |
| The ultra poor are caught in a below-subsistence trap from which it is difficult for them to break free using available resources and mechanisms.... |
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| Exclusion and Poverty: An Analytical Approach for Understanding Exclusion and Assessing Programmes Targeting the Very Poor in Bangladesh |
| Sajjad Zohir (ERG), Mehnaz Rabbani (RED), Biva Arani Mallik (EWU), Iftekharul Huq (EWU), Raisa Afsana (ERG) |
| April - 2008 |
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| Exclusion is a term that comes up often in association with poverty, social welfare and social injustice. Development interventions are designed with some notion of benefiting or including the excluded. This paper analyses the concept of exclusion using simple demand-supply tools.... |
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| Cost-benefit Analysis of CFPR |
| Sanjay Sinha (EDA Rural Systems Private Limited), Jyoti Gidwani (M-CRIL), Narayan Chandra Das (RED) |
| March - 2008 |
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| This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of the first cohort (2002-03) of selected ultra poor (SUP) households of BRAC’s CFPR. The analysis calculates benefit of the programme using primary data collected through a set of surveys... |
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