A5049445552- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Employment and Welfare Studies
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
2020-2024
Bangladesh is historically a patriarchal society, but has made recent strides in increasing educational and economic opportunities for women. Yet men continue to perpetrate coercion other forms of intimate partner violence against women Bangladesh. This study examines how rural shape the activities their wives within context changing norms around women's involvement domains. Men's perspectives are not often explored literature can provide valuable insight into why persists. 25 in-depth...
Pregnancy among adolescent girls in Bangladesh is high, with 66% of women under the age 18 reporting a first birth; this issue particularly acute northern region Bangladesh, an area that especially impoverished and where are at heightened risk. Using formative research, CARE USA examined underlying social, individual structural factors influencing married girls' early birth participation alternative opportunities (such as education or economic pursuits) Bangladesh.
Girl child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) persists in South Asia, with long-term consequences for girls. CARE's Tipping Point Initiative (TPI) addresses the causes of CEFM by challenging repressive gender norms inequalities. The TPI engages different participant groups on programmatic topics supports community dialogue to build girls' agency, shift inequitable power relations, change sustaining CEFM.The Nepal impact evaluation has an integrated, mixed-methods design. quantitative is a...
Child Marriage (CM) is one of the major developmental concerns in Bangladesh, reporting highest rates CM (59%) globally. To date, interventions to address Bangladesh have failed seriously engage with social norms that are important contributors CM. This paper describes evaluation design Tipping Point Initiative aims reduce through norm change and increasing adolescent girls’ agency voice their rights. The trial employs a mixed method design. quantitative component includes three-arm Cluster...
Microfinance organizations in Bangladesh often direct microloans to women, due part women's high repayment rates. Questions remain about how microfinance institutions are addressing – or enabling economic coercion of women taking out loans. In-depth interviews with 25 men and 24 examined the structure microcredit programs, men's reactions such structures, enabled challenged agency. We found that loan access control was gendered, loans were socially disruptive engendered shame among this...
Introduction Sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) are vital for both individual well-being development. Bangladesh has made long strides in improving SRHR over the last few decades. However, progress been uneven across various groups of reproductive-aged females, with married adolescent girls (MAGs) often being more vulnerable to denial than other women. This study intends develop Balika Bodhu, a combined empowerment social norm intervention promoting among MAGs assess its impact....