Microfinance Engagementsof the ‘Graduated’ TUP Members
Working Paper No. 9 |
| Munshi Sulaiman, Imran Matin, M Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee, Proloy Barua, Safeena Alarakhaia, Vidya Iyer |
| February - 2006 |
| Despite the slogan of ‘credit for the poorest of the poor’, the poorest have not fully benefited from the microfinance revolution of late 90s in Bangladesh... |
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Targeting Effectiveness of CFPR/TUP in Scale-up Environment
Working Paper No. 8 |
| Munshi Sulaiman, Imran Matin |
| February - 2006 |
| Previous research found that effective targeting is a hallmark of the BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme. Like many other targeted programmes, CFPR/TUP combines a number of targeting methods. How is the programme doing with respect to targeting effectiveness when it is being scaled up?.... |
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Customized Development Interventions for the Ultra Poor:Preliminary Change Assessments of Health and Health-seeking Behaviour (CFPR/TUP 2002 to 2004)
Working Paper No. 7 |
| Syed Masud Ahmed, AKM Masud Rana |
| June - 2005 |
| A mid-term survey of the CFPR/TUP programme participants (at the end of 1st cycle of 18 months intervention) on health and related issues was done during July-September 2004. The survey involved re-interviewing the same baseline survey households for studying the effects of intervention over time.... |
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Building social capital for the ultra poor: Challenges and achievements
Working Paper No. 6 |
| Karishma Huda, Sabeel Rahman, Catherine Guirguis |
| March - 2005 |
| Based on original research, this qualitative study explores the hypothesis that enagaging the village elites to support the ultra poor may provide a form of social capital that did not previously exist, promoting the further development of TUP members. But do these engagements constitute an effective source of social capital for TUP participants? ..... |
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Health Domain of the Ultra Poor: An Exploration
Working Paper No. 5 |
| Shahaduz Zaman, Hasanur Rahman, Ross Edgeworth |
| October - 2004 |
| There has been an increasing amount of materials surrounding health-seeking behaviour in recent years. However, a relatively small proportion of literature has focused upon health behaviours and types of health services used by the poor in rural Bangladesh, particularly ultra poor households..... |
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Engaging Elite Support for the Poorest? BRAC’s Experience with the Ultra Poor Programme
Working Paper No. 4 |
| Naomi Hossain, Imran Matin |
| September - 2004 |
| This paper describes and draws lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of the ultrapoor through the Gram Shahayak Committees (GSC), as part of BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme..... |
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Exploring Changes in the Lives of the Ultra Poor: An Exploratory Study on CFPR/TUP Members
Working Paper No. 3 |
| Imran Matin, Sarah Walker |
| September - 2004 |
| This paper is based on an exploratory study that wanted to better understand the perceptions of change as defined by the programme members and the underlying factors that explain the changes perceived.... |
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Combining Methodologies for Better Targeting of the Ultra Poor
Working Paper No. 2 |
| Imran Matin, Shantana Halder |
| August - 2004 |
| This paper aims to assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from the targeting strategy used in a new BRAC programme called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that aims to experiment with a different type of approach to address extreme rural poverty..... |
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Stories of Targeting: Process Documentation of Selecting the Ultra Poor for CFPR/TUP Programme
Working Paper No. 1 |
Process documentation: Marufia Noor, Mamun-ur-Rashid, Abu Muhammad Shihab, Rezvina Parveen
Consolidation: Hasanur Rahman, Tariq Ali
Training and supervision: Shahaduz Zaman, Imran Matin |
| April - 2004 |
| The targeting process for the CFPR/TUP programme brings together diverse strands of knowledge on poverty in identifying and selecting beneficiaries. The targeting process is, therefore, multi-staged and involves a variety of actors and processes..... |
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