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    In Their Own Words: The Formulation of Sexual and Health-Related Behaviour Among Young Men in Bangladesh. Summary Report

    Catalyst Consortium, 2005
    Adolescence is a time when attitudes and values about 'correct' behaviours are often learned and internalised. For boys, these can include viewing women as sex objects, condoning violence to obtain sex, and equating sexual 'prowess' (or skills) and multiple sexual partners with 'manhood'.
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    What Men Think About Gender Equality: Lessons from Oxfam GB Staff in Delhi and Dhaka

    2004
    How can development organisations promote greater personal commitment to gender equality among male staff? This article explores what male Oxfam staff in Bangladesh and India think about gender equality.
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    Framework to examine urban-rural links: an example from Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Discussions on how to improve urban or rural livelihoods are mostly based on disconnected ideas that examine urban and rural areas separately. Yet there are many links between urban and rural areas because income strategies and opportunities in these two areas often related.
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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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    Delivery mechanisms of cash transfer programs to the poor in Bangladesh

    World Bank, 2005
    This paper examines the practical issues and financial costs of delivering cash benefits from source to recipients. An analysis of cost-effective mechanisms for this purpose is also presented.The study analyses three alternative delivery methods used in Bangladesh. Issues concerning targeting and the leakage of funds is also examined.
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    The girls' stipend program in Bangladesh

    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 marriage and motherhood, and increase girls’ income-earning potential.
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    The girls' stipend program in Bangladesh

    Journal of Education for International Development, 2006
    The Female Stipend Programme (FSP) created in 1982 in Bangladesh has dramatically raised the enrolment and retention of girls in secondary schools to parity with boys (at 47%). However, it has achieved less success in its other objectives: of delaying marriage, increasing contraceptive use and in reducing fertility rates.
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    Making space for citizens: broadening the ‘new democratic spaces’ for citizen participation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This IDS Policy Briefing explores the new democratic spaces that have opened up for citizen participation in a range of countries, including Angola, Brazil, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Uganda, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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    Sustainable sanitation in rural South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Sixty percent of people in South Asia lack access to adequate sanitation. Achieving the seventh Millennium Development Goal to halve the population without access to sanitation by 2015 will therefore require a massive effort. Access needs to increase quickly and widely but programmes must also be sustainable.
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    Bangladesh gender profile

    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 dimensions.

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