Bangladesh and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Rural Women’s Life in Bangladeshi Villages
- 2011
- Information Communication Technology (ICT) has the potential to contribute to development, especially in rural areas of developing countries. But the mechanisms through which ICT can be combined with development agendas and an underst...
- Chronic poverty in the Southwest coastal belt of Bangladesh
- Solidarités International, 2013
- Where the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh was once a prosperous agricultural hub, today it is an area ravaged by salinity, natural disasters, poverty and an inability to cope with recurrent shocks. This paper pr...
- Impact of livelihood practices on the char dwellers economic condition in riverine chars: case studies in Bangladesh
- M.A. Rahman 2011
- The present study tries to identify the livelihood practices of the char dwellers. It also focus to assess their economic condition in relation to livelihood practices. The research has been conducted through interdisciplinary approac...
- Community-Based Biodiversity Management South Asia Programme (CBM-SA) Mid-Term Evaluation Report
- C. Pionetti 2012
- The Community-Based Management of Biodiversity programme is funded by the Norwegian NGO Development Fund in South Asia and coordinated by LI-BIRD in Nepal. The CBM approach is being implemented in 29 sites across four countries with t...
- Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration
- K. Warner / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory re...
- Report on fieldwork from around the world documenting loss and damage due to climate change
- K. Warner; K. van der Geest; S. Kreft / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This study presents empirical findings from fieldwork around the world examining loss and damage caused by global warming. The report begins by defining and contextualising the emerging discourse on assessing, quantifying and reacting...
- Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh
- H. Wright / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. It examines the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and changes...
- A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City
- M Alam / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured b...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Coastal fishers’ livelihood in peril: sea surface temperature and tropical cyclones in Bangladesh
- S.R. Chowdhury / Center for Participatory Research and Development, 2012
- Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world, where more than 3.5 million coastal peoples’ livelihoods depend directly or indirectly on fishing and related activities under extremely difficult conditions. E...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI)
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute is a non-profit, non-political research centre. Established in October 2000, the Institute has established for itself a reputation for excellence in its research and advocacy work focusing on the growth of private enterprise in Bangladesh. The Institute promotes issues of importance to the private sector and seeks to initiate essential measures and influence policy...
