Browsing by Author "Sattar, M. Ghulam"

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Compensating the affected persons of Mohakhali Flyover in Dhaka
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2002-09) Gani, Md. Showkat; Sattar, M. Ghulam
Food aid and sustainable livelihoods: BRAC's innovations against hunger
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-07) Sattar, M. Ghulam; Chowdhury, Nusrat Sabina; Hossain, Md. Altaf
The study aims to examine the situation of the poor in Bangladesh and analyse the experiences of BRAC in ensuring food security for the extreme poor through its two specially designed programmes: (a) Income Generation for Vulnerable Groups Development (IGVGD), and (b) Agroforestry. The programmes are the outcome of an urgent search for innovations against hunger. Both the programmes stemmed from food-aid initiatives. Both the programmes stemmed from food-aid initiatives and are targeted to vulnerable women. The fmdings are based on the perceptions of the programme participants who are members of organised groups of food insecure women, and other stakeholders of the food-aid programmes, i.e. elected chairmen of Union Parishad, officials of related government departments, and local representatives of international development partners. Programme records and reports of some empirical studies related to IGVGDP were also consulted. Focus group discussion (FGD) was used as a method of capturing the perceptions of the women participating in the two programmes. 97 women of IGVGD programme and 30 women members associated with the Agroforestry took part in different FGD sessions. Information from others were gathered through in-depth interviews.
Gender and good governance issues in local government of Bangladesh: a baseline report
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-12) Gani, Md. Showkat; Sattar, M. Ghulam
The study mainly describes the pre-intervention situation of women leadership capacity in local government system of Bangladesh. Data came from the 16 upazilas (sub-district) of 4 districts in Khulna division, where the Gender and Good Governance Programme was in operation. A total of 434 women union parishad (UP) members were interviewed in February-March 2003. Findings reveal that the typical women UP member is someone who is around 35 years old, has secondary or ssc level education, mainly working as homemakers. Thus, the typical elected women UP member do not have much history of formal involvement in activities pertaining to the public domain. Subsequently, it is thus not surprising that they had weak participation in many public activities, such as, infrastructural development, relief and rehabilitation activities, women and child development, communication and linkage with others. On the other hand, they were very active in setting up hygienic toilet, plantation, arsenic awareness creation, attendance of the social justice, and finally the relationship with elites. However, the weakest involvement of women UP members has been in formal committees through which resources are allocated and decisions are made. The observed significant positive association of involvement in developmental activities of women UP members with their age and economic condition indicates that there may have been inadequate opportunity for young women from poorer background to participate and influence developmental work.
Socio-economic baseline survey of open water fisheries under Fourth Fisheries Project
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2002-02) Banu, Dilruba; Gani, Md. Showkat; Rafi, Mohammad; Sattar, M. Ghulam