Stephanie Psaki, Andrea Melnikas, Eashita Haque, Grace Saul et al.
PURPOSE: The child marriage field lacks a simplified framework that connects an understanding of the drivers of child marriage for girls to decisions about the design of interventions to delay marriage within different contexts and support married girls. METHODS: We reviewed existing child marriage ...
Andrea Melnikas, Sigma Ainul, Iqbal Ehsan, Eashita Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that child marriage may be accelerated during times of crisis and insecurity as resources are scarce and child marriage may be a survival strategy for girls and their families. In 2017, the Rohingya experienced a mass displacement to Bangladesh in response to e...
Sajeda Amin, Johana Ahmed, Jyotirmoy Saha, Sharif Hossain et al.
In Bangladesh, where efforts to prevent child marriage have focused on the enforcement of laws and policies, little research exists on what approaches work best to delay marriage and why. To help fill this evidence gap, in 2012 the Population Council and partners embarked on a four-year study to und...
Sigma Ainul, Iqbal Ehsan, Eashita Haque, Sajeda Amin et al.
This qualitative study focuses specifically on displaced Rohingya adolescents and youth (ages 14–24) and explores how the crisis has impacted their sexual and reproductive health (SRH), marriage practices, safety and security, and related attitudes and aspirations. This research aims to identify app...
Sajeda Amin, Jyotirmoy Saha, Masuma Billah, Nargis Sultana et al.
Despite considerable social and economic progress in Bangladesh, child marriage remains the norm. The Population Council is partnering with UNFPA and the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs to empower girls with gender, life, and livelihood skills, and to engage communities to address fundamental...
Sigma Ainul, Eashita Haque, K.G. Santhya, Ubaidur Rob
Bangladesh is a significant labor-sending country, with about 7.8 million Bangladeshis working abroad. Major destinations for migrant workers are the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Female migrants represent 12 percent of the migration flow, with a majority engaged as domestic workers. Mig...
Eashita Haque, Population Council, Natalie Wyss, Emily Eunyoung et al.
This brief summarizes a recent study on the impacts of COVID-19 school closures in rural communities in Bangladesh. It clarifies issues of remote learning access, management, and monitoring, as well as new strains on students’ time use. It also reveals general impacts on mental and physical health, ...
Sajeda Amin, Ubaidur Rob, Masuma Billah, Sigma Ainul et al.
The Population Council COVID-19 study team is implementing rapid phone-based surveys of a representative sample of girls living in the catchment area of two skills-building programs. The two programs (one with UNFPA, the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs; and the second with UNICEF and the Mini...
Alex Bush, Iqbal S M Saify, Dr Hasan Mohammad Emran, Sultana Mahmuda et al.
This report combines literature review and quantitative analysis to explore the gendered impacts of climate crises, with emphasis on unpaid care work. It finds that unpaid care hours increase for low-income women in high climate vulnerability areas, and argues that care-related impacts must be ackno...
Jerin Akter, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Sharif Hossain, Abdullah Al et al.
Bangladesh has been hosting nearly a million Rohingyas for the past five years. Since the 1980s, to escape widespread persecution and conflict, Rohingyas have been crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh. Rohingyas are not entitled to, or integrated into, any long-term development agendas o...
K.G. Santhya, Sigma Ainul, Snigdha Banerjee, Avishek Hazra et al.
The Global Estimates of Modern Slavery report of 2021 stated that 6.3 million people were in situations of forced commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) on any given day worldwide. Asia and the Pacific region (which includes South Asia) were host to more than half of the global total of forced labor, ...
Masuma Billah, Eashita Haque, Surojit Kundu, Md. Saddam Hossain et al.
This report describes results from the midline survey of Accelerating Action to End Child Marriage in Bangladesh. The objective of the program is to identify effective and scalable approaches to end child marriage by empowering girls and communities. To bring about social norms change, the program e...