Bangladesh and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Programme leads had better quality of diet
- F. Hanseen / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006
- This paper investigates the impact of Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP), on changes in food and nutrient consumption between 2002 and 2004. This programme was initiated by BRAC in 2002 ...
- Recommending that nutritional interventions be adapted to local contexts
- Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006
- This document explores the strengths and weaknesses of Asia Development Bank (ADB)-financed regional technical assistance (RETA), a modality in addressing nutrition issues and initiatives. Five member countries were consulted and inte...
- Assessing the outcome of cash for work in five countries
- Oxfam, 2005
- This paper gives an overview of Oxfam’s experience with cash for work programmes in five countries as part of their recovery programmes following natural disasters or conflicts. The countries are Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Haiti,...
- Being prepared for unexpected events can help prevent poverty
- Emmanuel Skoufias; Agnes Quisumbing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Economic shocks and other unexpected events, such as family illness or crop failure, can cause poor households to fall deeper into poverty. To cope with such crises, households may cut down on non-food consumption in order to maintain...
- Making Asian aquaculture more pro-poor
- N. Bestari / Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2004
- Linking aquaculture development approaches to viable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor remains a challenge. The poor face many constraints to participation in aquaculture, primarily due to a lack of access to capital and res...
- How effective are ultra-poor targetting techniques?
- M. Sulaiman; I. Matin / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006
- Experience from many development interventions shows that unless the programme is designed and targetted specifically for the poorest, they will either be missed or they will exclude themselves. "Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty R...
- Lessons and insights from bottom-up community-led sanitation programmes
- K. Kamal; K. Pasteur / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
- This paper is an updated version of an IDS working paper focusing on processes of Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS - an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build a...
- Assessing climate change impacts on poor fishing communities
- E.H. Allison / Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004
- Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities...
- Scaling up for poverty reduction: replicating failure or succesful intervention in South Asia?
- R., Kanbur; S. Devarajan / Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2005
- This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions - both governmental and non-governmental - that address poverty reduction. The framework sees scaling up as addressing dif...
- Prerequisites for the building of an inclusive society: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- R. Bhargava / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004
- This paper, presented for the 2004 Human Development Report, argues that the building of inclusive societies requires the secularity of states. All other forms of state are exclusionary, particularly theocracies. Drawing on evidence f...
- 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...
