Impact
of Women's Income Earning Work on their Status and Fertility
Project Director: Simeen Mahmud
Funding Agency: The Rockefellor Foundation, USA.
To explore the impact of women's paid work on their status
within the household and on their fertility behaviour.
A Baseline Survey for Impact
Evaluation of an ILO Project
Project Director: Simeen Mahmud
Funding Agency: ILO.
To establish a socio-economic baseline for evaluating the
impact of the project, Technologies for Rural Employment with
Special Reference to Women.
A Gender Dynamics of Landless-Managed
Minor Irrigation in Bangladesh
Project Directors: Simeen Mahmud,
BIDS, and Barbara Van Koppen, Wageningen
Agricultural University, the Netherlands.
Funding Agency: Ministry of Development Cooperation, Government
of the Netherlands.
The objective of the study was to determine the impact of
participation in irrigation groups on women's social and economic
status.
Health Care Demand and Health
Expenditure in Bangladesh
Project Director: M.A. Mannan
Funding Agency: UNICEF.
To determine household health expenditures, their structure
and means of financing; the cost of health care and the impact
of health care expenditure on other consumption expenditure;
to analyze household attitude towards illness and cost incurred
by each.
Baseline Survey on Maternal
and Neonatal Health Care
Project Director: M.A. Mannan
Funding Agency: Ministry of Health, Government of Bangladesh.
To determine the extent of maternal and neonatal mortality
and morbidity in Bangladesh;
To identify problems and constraints limiting effective delivery
and utilization of existing maternal and neonatal services.
Health Poverty Interface Study
Project Director: Sharifa Begum
Funding Agency: WHO.
The study has three components. The first emphasizes developing
a methodo-logy for identifying the poorest and the most vulnerable
at local level, with the intention that, if found appropriate,
such a methodology would be applied by all sectoral policies
and programmes aimed at poverty reduction. The second component
examines the current pattern of financial allocations and
resource flows to the health sector at macro level. The key
objective of the second paper is to identify the opportunities
for improving the sectoral impact on health. The third component
focuses on the interface between development and health. An
attempt is made to pin-point development activities which
have impact on the health status of the people, particularly
the poor.
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