Bangladesh

Research round-up based upon ‘REFLECT: A new approach to literacy and social change’. Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques (REFLECT) is an approach to adult literacy programmes which borrows from Paolo Freire’s `active dialogue’ method and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques. Developed by ACTIONAID, the authors describe and assess the use of REFLECT in […]

Feedback on ‘Questioning the critics: the case of BRAC and other credit programmes in Bangladesh (plus reply from Ben Rogaly)’. Drawing from the experiences of BRAC in Bangladesh, the author highlights some of the major areas of controversy around micro-credit organisations, specifically criticising points made by Ben Rogaly (in Development in Practice 6(2)). Arguing that […]

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. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table […]

Practical Notes. Also includes ‘Business links through NGOs: an Indian experiment in rural development’, ‘Small and micro-enterprise in Sri Lanka: bringing the bankers to the people’, ‘Small-scale production of cultured milk and the equity trust approach’ and ‘Women workers in the garment industry in Dhaka, Bangladesh’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & […]

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

This case study examines the current crisis in female employment in the Bangladeshi garment industry: girls aged under 15 are being made redundant, in line with new requirements from Northern importers. The paper highlights the difficulty of using rights arguments to control employment conditions in a country where insecurity means that no job often equals […]

Two case studies from Guatemala and Bangladesh illustrate Oxfam’s Fair Trade programme. This seeks to foster relations between Southern producers and Northern consumers, ensuring the former fair livelihoods, and communicating the fair trade message to the latter. Multiple connecting threads lie at the heart of the programme. The vast majority of participants are women, because […]