Shalini Roy, Jinnat Ara, Narayan Das, Agnes Quisumbing
Many development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the “flypaper effects” of whether women retain control over these transfers once within the household and how reallocation of the transfers affects women's empowerment. We study these dynamics in the...
Ariful Islam, Jinnat Ferdous, Shariful Islam, Md. Abu Sayeed et al.
Diverse coronavirus (CoV) strains can infect both humans and animals and produce various diseases. CoVs have caused three epidemics and pandemics in the last two decades, and caused a severe impact on public health and the global economy. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to understand the emerg...
Narayan Das, Rabeya Yasmin, Jinnat Ara, Md. Kamruzzaman et al.
M. Niaz Asadullah, Jinnat Ara
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh. Programme im...
Jinnat Ara Islam, Gulshan Ara, Farzana Choudhury
Background: Obstructed labour is one of the most common preventable cause of maternal and prenatal morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to determine the risk factors as well as to asses the outcome of obstructed labour. Method: This cross s...
Farzana Misha, Wameq A. Raza, Jinnat Ara, Ellen Van de Poel
BRAC launched its Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in 2002 to address ultrapoverty in Bangladesh using an asset transfer approach combined with multifaceted training over a 2-year period. However, evidence of long-term employment trajectorie...
Wameq A. Raza, Jinnat Ara
A large scale programme that provides grants along with background support services was implemented by BRAC in an effort to alleviate extreme poverty using a grant-based approach known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR). At the beginning of the programme, the participants are p...
Morshed Nasir, Rawshan Ara Perveen, Shilpasree Saha, Ashrafun Nessa et al.
Healthcare professionals are the crucial and influencing source of information for vaccines and their communication among patients and communities that can accelerate successful vaccination in a country. This cross-sectional study was one of the first and foremost ones in Bangladesh to observe the b...
Jinnat Ara, Syeda Sitwat Shahed, Rehnuma Rahman, Sibbir Ahmad et al.
The multidimensional nature of poverty renders comprehensive development efforts encompassing livelihoods, health, and education as well as communal support, essential for achieving equality in growth. Such an integrated service approach has neither been widely practiced nor assessed: therefore, thi...
Narayan Das, Rabeya Yasmin, Jinnat Ara, Kamruzzaman Kamruzzaman et al.
We study BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women in poor households. Previous research has shown large, significant positive program impacts at ...
Pervin Akter, Farzana Sharmin, Jinnat Ara Islam, Hasina Begum et al.
Background: Birth preparedness and complication readiness is an imperative intervention which has proven to reduce delays in care seeking behavior in case of obstetric emergencies. Although, many pregnant women and their families do not take the suggested steps to prepare for childbirth, despite of ...
Jinnat Ara, Mir Md. Moheuddin, Saddam Hossain, Muhammad Abdus Sattar Titu
Break-even analysis is the analysis of the level of sales at which a company would make zero profit and it assists management in determining the number of products to be produced to attain desired profits, the number of products to be produced at a minimum threshold level, gaining desired profits un...
Jinnat Ara, Nusrat Zaitun Hossain, Narayan Das, Abdul Bayes
We use cross-sectional data to assess the impact of the programme on livelihood where propensity score matching technique has been adopted in analysing the data. Results show that programme participants' self-employment, income, food consumption, saving, health seeking behaviour, empowerment and soc...
Fatema Ashraf, Sania Sultana, M. Tasdik Hasan, Hamida Pervin et al.
Background: GDM is a public health issue, affecting mostly the South East Asian region, as well in Bangladesh (prevalence 9.7% - 12.9%). It has a significant adverse impact on maternal and foetal outcome. So it needs to be addressed energetically to avoid maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality....
Farzana Misha, Wameq A. Raza, Jinnat Ara, Ellen Van de Poel
BRAC implemented the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Specially Targeted Ultra-Poor (CFPR) program in 2002 to mitigate ultra-poverty in the poorest districts of Bangladesh, providing multifaceted support in the form of asset-transfer, food-stipends, education, healthcare and social su...