| Discoursing Birthing Care: Experiences from Bangladesh |
| Kaosar Afsana and Sabina Faiz Rashid |
| June - 2000 |
| University Press Ltd |
| The book focuses on issues critical to the contemporary emphasis on gender sensitive health care for the poor pregnant women in Bangladesh. The core of the book explores the differing perspectives between rural women and health care providers regarding childbirth care and practices.... |
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| Hope not complacency: State of primary education in Bangladesh 1999 |
AMR Chowdhury, RK Choudhury, Samir Nath (eds)
Campaign for Popular Education and University Press Limited |
| June - 1999 |
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| In recent times, a number of interventions have been made in public, private and NGO sectors to attain the goal of universal primary education. However, no sector has invested enough in monitoring the progress towards the desired goal. This report projects a generally optimistic picture about the state of primary education in the country.... |
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| Poverty alleviation and empowerment: The Second Impact Assessment Study of BRAC’s Rural Development Programme |
| AM Muazzam Husain (edited) |
| September - 1998 |
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| BRAC has been working since early 1990’s to evolve an impact assessment system (IAS) for its rural development programme (RDP). The first impact assessment study was conducted in 1993-94. Assessing the impact of RDP is necessary not only to measure the success of the programme in raising the socio-economic status of the participants but also to identify the shortcomings of the programme and to assess its sustainability.... |
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| Micro-credit programmes: who participates and what does it matter? |
| Hassan Zaman |
| August - 1996 |
In: Geoff Wood and Iffath Sharif (eds). 'Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh'
University Press Ltd. |
| The book critically examines micro-credit provision in Bangladesh. It critiques the emergence of a panacea formula for credit provision to the poor through the Grameen Bank model, which offer a ‘cheaper’ attractive option for poverty alleviation avoiding the ‘overhead’ costs of a broader social development agenda, mobilisation, group formation, support for struggles and campaigns, accessing key resources and opportunities in the market, skills training, and so on..... |
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| Beacon of Hope: An impact assessment study of BRAC’s Rural Development Programme |
| Shams Mustafa, Ishrat Ara, Dilruba Banu, Altaf Hossain, Azmal Kabir, Mohammad Mohsin, Abu Yusuf, Sarwar Jahan |
| February - 1996 |
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| The impact assessment methodology was constructed on the basis of a set of hypotheses, and incorporated a set of key indicators of impact. The IAS hypothised that various non-RDP factors are likely to influence the impact of RDP’s inputs.... |
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