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Hope over fate : Fazle Hasan Abed and the science of ending global poverty
\"This book tells the story of Fazle Hasan Abed (1936-2019), a former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid who founded BRAC in 1972. Abed's methods have changed the way global policymakers think about poverty\"-- Provided by publisher.
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BRAC initiative towards promoting gender and social equity in health: a longitudinal study of child growth in Matlab, Bangladesh
To explore the effect of BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) initiatives towards promoting gender and social equity in health among children of poor mothers who are BRAC members.
A cohort of 576 children from the prospective study of a BRAC- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh joint research project was analysed. Data were collected three times during 1995-1996 with approximately 4-month intervals. Stunting, defined as height-for-age below minus two standard deviations from the reference median, was the outcome health measure. The study children were stratified into three groups according to their mother's social and BRAC membership status: poor and BRAC member (BM), poor non-member (TG) and non-poor non-member (NTG).
Matlab, rural area of Bangladesh.
Children aged 6-72 months.
The overall prevalence of stunting was 76%; the highest prevalence was found among TG (84.6%) children and no significant difference was observed between BM and NTG children (67.3% and 69.4%, respectively). In all groups, a significantly larger proportion of girls was stunted compared with boys in the first round. Group-level analysis showed that stunting decreased among all children except BM boys at the end of third round, with the largest decline among BM girls. In contrast, stunting prevalence increased among BM boys. A similar trend was found in the individual-level analysis, where a larger proportion of BM girls recovered from stunting compared with other groups and no recovery was observed among BM boys. At the end of the third round, the nutritional status of BM girls was almost equal to that of the BM boys, while gender inequity remained large among TG and NTG children.
The BRAC initiative appeared to contribute to a significant equity gain in health for girls, as well as to decreased differences in ill health between the poor and the non-poor.
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Food supplementation, nutritional intake of recipients and operational aspects: an integrated pilot nutrition initiative of BRAC
To explore the nutritional quality of supplementary foods and additional energy consumption by the recipients in a pilot nutrition initiative of BRAC.
In-depth interviews, observations during feeding at feeding centres, and laboratory analyses of supplementary foods for nutrient contents performed at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Muktagacha thana (sub-district) in Mymensingh district, a rural area of Bangladesh.
Pregnant and lactating mothers and children below 2 years of age.
Analysis revealed that supplementary food, if taken completely, could provide daily energy equivalent to 752 kcal to a mother and 212 kcal to a child below 2 years of age. Mothers consumed about 75% of the food provided (approximately 564 kcal day(-1)). The food was shared mostly with young children and husbands. In-depth interview with mothers also suggested that they usually skipped breakfast if the food was given in the morning. The children liked the taste of food, and unless the child was sick or had some food before coming to the centre, she/he ate all the food provided. Although the main purpose of the project was to provide nutrition education, it was observed that activities at feeding centres were limited to food distribution with little time devoted to the communication of nutritional messages.
Training should be given to service providers to communicate nutritional messages effectively as part of understanding the goal of the initiative. It is important to explore whether the regular diets of the recipients are replaced by the food supplementation or not.
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Managing organisational change: The gendered' organisation of space and time
This article examines the experiences of women and men staff in the world's largest national NGO, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), to investigate the impact of the organisation of space and time on women's capacity to become effective development workers.
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The Implications of Climate Change for Bangladesh: A Synthesis
This chapter is a synthesis of the findings (reported in the following chapters) of an interdisciplinary, collaborative assessment of what is known, and needs to be known, about the possible effects of climate and sea-level change on Bangladesh. The assessment focussed on six major questions: How might climate change? How might sea level change in the Bay of Bengal? What are the possible effects on natural resources? What are the possible socio-economic effects? What are the legal implications of climate and sea-level change? How might the coast of Bangladesh be affected? In this chapter, the salient features relating to each question are summarised. For greater detail, including some references, the reader is directed to Chapters 2 to 7.
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