Bangladesh and Gender
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- BRIDGE
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- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Lessons for best practice in confronting violence against women across cultures
- United Nations Population Fund, 2006
- Violence against women is slowly becoming more and more an issue for public debate and action. This report documents 10 case studies from dirferent developing countries that provide examples and lessons informing best practice that ca...
- Summary of the first conference on the rights of Dalit women
- India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006
- This report summarises the proceedings and the outcomes the 1st Conference on the Rights of Dalit Women held in The Hague, Netherlands. The conference highlights how in South Asia – that is, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and...
- Bangladesh Female Stipend Programme may not be the unqualified success it is claimed to be
- J. Raynor; K. Wesson / Journal of Education for International Development, 2006
- The Female Stipend Programme (FSP), widely acclaimed as a model for achieving gender parity of enrolment, was created in 1982 in Bangladesh to help increase the enrolment and retention of girls in secondary schools, delay their marria...
- Recommendations for improving gender equality in poverty reduction in Bangladesh
- F. Shah / KfW Bankengruppe, 2006
- This paper critically examines the issue of gender and women’s equality in Bangladesh. The author asserts that while overall poverty has decreased in this country in recent years, poverty continues to have concrete gender dimensi...
- Attitudes to girls' education in Bangladesh
- J. Raynor / Oxfam, 2005
- The expansion of girls’ education in Bangladesh – and how it is perceived – is the subject of this study, with the government’s secondary Female Stipend Programme (FSP) used as a case study. There is an old ...
- 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,...
- DFID Bangladesh: putting women and girls first
- R. Waterhouse; M. Sultan Huq / Department for International Development, UK, 2004
- This report presents the main findings of a Gender Review carried out by DFID Bangladesh (DFIDB), which aimed to develop guidelines to help promote gender equality more effectively. A number of concerns emerged around how best ...
- Campaigning for the rights of sex workers: lessons from Bangladesh
- S. Huq / Eldis Document Store, 2005
- This paper describes the involvement of Naripokkho, a Bangladesh NGO, in a national campaign to support the rights of sex workers. Naripokkho supported sex workers’ efforts to defend themselves against illegal government eviction...
- Hope in the slums: women’s work in Bangladesh
- Sarah Salway; Sonia Jesmin; Shahana Rahman / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- For the slum-dwellers of Bangladesh, there are few opportunities to gain control over their lives. This is especially the case for slum women, who live within restrictive gender structures. Employment could not only bring in vital inc...
- Violence against women: a global view
- World Health Organization, 2005
- This report by the World Health Organization presents a global perspective on domestic violence against women. Covering ten countries including Bangladesh, Peru and Tanzania, the document finds that violence against women is still wid...
- WBB Trust – Work for a better Bangladesh
- Bangladeshi research, policy analysis, and advocacy organisation focusing on health issues
