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  Centre for Gender and Social Transformation

  Centre for Gender and Social Transformation (CGST), BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University, is a leading regional centre on research, teaching and policy related to gender and social transformat
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  Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

  International Water Management Institute, 2012

  This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. We examine the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and farming practice changes. These households are coping with huge demographic, economic, and environmental changes.
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  Moving from water problems to water solutions: research needs assessment for the eastern Gangetic Plains. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the National Agricultural Science Complex (NASC), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

  International Water Management Institute, 2013

   
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  Special Report - water Issues between Nepal, India & Bangladesh: a review of literature

  Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010

  After a thorough examination of the available literature on water issues between Bangladesh, India and Nepal, the author has observed that there is an acute lack of scholarly work on issues pertaining to water issues in South Asia. Most of the work available is in the form of newspaper articles. Additionally, the available reports do not provide an objective assessment of water issues.
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  Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and adult health that informs policy predominantly comes from higher-income countries.
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  Minimum wage in the RMG sector of Bangladesh: definition, determination method and levels

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014

  Minimum wage in the RMG sector of Bangladesh is a debated issue, mainly due to lack of an operational definition and method for calculation. This study was undertaken to come up with a definition and method for calculation of the minimum wage based on the ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention,1970 (No. 131).
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  Early Lessons from the Process to Enhance Understanding of Loss and Damage in Bangladesh

  International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2013

  This International Centre for Climate Change and Development summary for policy makers is the result of an almost two-year engagement with the issue of loss and damage in Bangladesh.
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  Living testimony: obstetric fistula and inequities in maternal health

  Family Care International, 2007

  Obstetric fistula is an injury to the birth canal, resulting from prolonged labour, that has devastating physical and psychological effects on women’s lives. Its persistence reveals vast inequities in access to and quality of reproductive health care.
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  Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007

  In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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  Sex Workers’ Struggles in Bangladesh: Learnings for the Women’s Movement

  BRIDGE, 2005

  In 1999 the government of Bangladesh forcefully evicted sex workers from a large cluster of brothels just outside Dhaka. Members of the sex worker organisation Ulka immediately sought support from Naripokkho, a country-wide women’s NGO. The Naripokkho office was transformed into an impromptu shelter with more than 40 women sleeping there, and a few more staying with staff in their homes.

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