Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position \nwithin the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s \nintegration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others offer \nmore sceptical, often pessimistic, accounts of this ...
Khurshid Alam, Sakiba Tasneem, Elizabeth Oliveras
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are one approach to addressing the health workforce crisis in developing countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, a pioneer in this area, uses female volunteer CHWs as core workers in its health programs. After 25 years of implementing the CHW model in rura...
Khurshid Alam, Sakiba Tasneem, Elizabeth Oliveras
INTRODUCTION: Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are one approach to addressing the health workforce shortage in developing countries. BRAC, a large NGO in Bangladesh, is a pioneer in using female volunteer CHWs as core workers in its successful health programmes. After 25 years of implementi...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
The debate about the empowerment potential of women’s access to labour market opportunities is a long-standing one but it has taken on fresh lease of life with the increased feminization of paid work in the context of economic liberalization. Contradictory viewpoints reflect differences in how empow...
Sohela Nazneen, Sakiba Tasneem
The system of reserved seats with direct elections to local government bodies has been in place for women since 1997. This article investigates how perceptions have changed about the role of women representatives in local government. By exploring the accounts of women's views, experiences and how th...
Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
In Bangladesh women are engaged in a variety of economic activities ranging \nfrom homestead based expenditure saving activities to outside paid work. \nHowever, women's work always remains under reported, especially women’s \nnon‐market homestead based economic activities. Under reporti...
Mahjabeen Rahman, Sakiba Tasneem
A large number of new Shasthya Shebikas were recruited under the maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program besides the existing ones. This study attempts to explore whether and how the income earning capability of the Shasthya Shebikas, both old and new, was affected due to this new initiat...
Khurshid Alam, Sakiba Tasneem, Molla Huq
BACKGROUND: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which contributes...
Asad Islam, Sakiba Tasneem, Liang Choon Wang
Abstract We conduct an experiment to determine competitiveness among shrimpers who engage in collecting shrimp seeds in the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh. We then examine how competitiveness affects the labour supply decisions and labour market performance of these shrimpers. Our results...
Sakiba Tasneem, Moushumi Chaudhury
This research aims to look at household responses to a tsunami warning that took place in \nsouth-east coastal areas of Bangladesh on 12 September 2007. The study was conducted in \nboth the mainland and islands of Coxs Bazar district. We examined the impact of the warming \nby measuring...