List
of issues under study:
Education
and Development
PRSP-MDG linkages
Gender
Issues
Social
Safety Net
Health
Rights and Development
Problems
of Urbanization
Worker’s Rights
Social
Inequality
Education
and Poverty linkage
Migration
and Poverty
Women
Empowerment
National
Budget
Reproductive
Health
Employment Generation
Chronic
poverty
Abu Ahmed Abdullah
Research Director
Progress Report for the period from 11/2004 to 16/11/2005
1.
Publication:
None
2.
Work
completed:
None
3.
Work in progress:
i)
Working on a book tentatively titled
“Contribution to the Study of Bangladesh Economy and Society”. Two
components are ready for circulation.
4.
Seminar/ Workshop:
None
5.
Others:
i)
Member, Publication Committee.
ii)
Member, PCC
Mahmudul
Alam
Senior Research Fellow
Progress Report for the period from 11/2004 to 16/11/2005
1.
Publication:
i)
‘Secondary
Education Sub-sector in Bangladesh: Performance, Challenges and the Way
Forward’ (co-author) published in Abu Ahsan and A.S. Abbasi (eds)
Education in a Rapidly
Changing World: Focus on Bangladesh Center for Social Science and
Public Policy Research, IUB, Dhaka, April, 2005.
2.
Work completed:
None
3.
Work in progress:
i)
Responsible for chapters on finance (public &
private) and management aspects; involved in overall planning in Education
Watch 2005, Secondary Education Sub-sector in Bangladesh: Status and
Challenges, sponsored by CAMPE, Dhaka.
4.
Seminar/ Workshop:
i)
Key resource person in the workshop on
‘Evaluating Basic Education Project in Developing Countries’ for the
Midlevel personnel of the
Japanese Educational NGOs, held in Tokyo, 16th -17th
March, 2005; and Osaka 19th-20th March, 2005.
ii)
Resource person in the national workshop on
people’s Report on MDG by CAMPE, Samunnay and Manusher Jonny held in
National Press Club Dhaka, on 3rd September 2005.
Dr. Rita Afsar
Senior Research Fellow
Progress Report for the period from 11/2004 to 16/11/2005
1.
Publication:
i)
The
‘Indian Ocean Connection’: Migration from the Indian Subcontinent to
Western Australia, in R. Wildings and F. Tilbury (eds) A Changing
People: Diverse Contribution to the State of Western Australia,
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Office of Multicultural Interests
(IOM), Perth, Western Australia: 196-209, 2004.
ii)
Dynamics
of Poverty, Development and Population Mobility: The Bangladesh Case, in Asia
Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 19(2): 69-91. 2004.
iii)
Bangladeshi
Women’s Entry to Overseas Manufacturing Sector: New Signals and Policy
Paradigm, Feminist Review, 77: 175-179. 2004.
iv)
Conditional
Mobility: Migration of Bangladeshi Female Domestic Workers, in Shirlena
Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Noor Abdul Rahman (eds), Asian Women as
Transnational Domestic Workers, Marshall Cavendish Academic,
Singapore National University, Singapore. 2005.
2.
Work
Completed:
i)
Mapping and Measuring Social Capital in
Rural Bangladesh, A report prepared under Social Capital Component of BIDS
study sponsored and funded by IRRI-PETRRA, Dhaka. 2004.
ii)
Women,
Gender and Labour Migration and Remittances: South Asia, for publication
as a part of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture to be published
by Brill Academic publishers, The Netherlands. 2005.
3.
Work
in Progress:
i)
Compiling
and editing all the papers that I received while assuming the
responsibility of the Convener of the Panel on Rural Livelihood and Social
Capital: The Case of Bangladesh and South Asia, held under the auspices of
the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies,
Lund University, Sweden, 6-9 July.
4.
Workshop
and Seminar:
i)
Internal
Migration and Pro-Poor Policy in Bangladesh: A Briefing Paper, presented
at International Conference in China: Maximizing the Benefits of Internal
Migration for Development Guangzhou, China, 23-25 February. 2005.
ii)
Health
Issues and Health Politics in Bangladesh, paper presented at the
International seminar on Health and Responsiveness, Flinders University,
Adelaide, Australia, 9-11 June. 2005.
5.
Others:
i)
Division Chief, Human Resource Development
Division.
ii)
Advisor,
Editorial Committee of Coalition for the Urban Poor (CUP), Newsletter,
Nagar Darpan.
iii)
Member,
Technical Advisory Committee for Research into Arsenic in the Food Chain
Arsenic policy Support unit, DPHE and DGHS Dhaka.
iv)
Executive
Committee member of Nari Uddyog Kandro, Dhaka
Dr. Pratima Paul-Majumder
Research
Fellow
Progress
Report for the period 03/01/2005 - 16/11/2005
1.
Publication:
i)
ii)
“Social,
Economic and Health Insecurity Affecting Women’s Participation in the
Labour Market and their Labour Productivity. Empowerment A Journal of
Women For Women Vol. 12, 2005.
iii)
“National
Education Budget of Bangladesh and Empowerment of Women. Bangladesh Nari
Progati Sangha and Institute for Environment & Development 2005.
iv)
2.
Work
Completed
i)
Construction
of Gender Role in Bangladesh.
ii)
A
Proposal on “Review of Current Resource Allocation to the Ministry of
Women and Children Affairs”, submitted to the Ministry of Women and
Children Affairs, GOB.
iii)
Women
in Poverty.
iv)
Role
of Education Budget on Women's Empowerment.
v)
A
Paper on Safety-net to be presented in the Seminar of BIDS on PRSP and the
National Budget.
3.
Work in
Progress:
i)
Gender
Impact of Globalization.
ii)
Study
of Factors Related Dowry in Bangladesh.
iii)
Study
on Child Survivor.
iv)
The Gender Differentiated
Effects of the Growth of Export-oriented Manufacturing: A Case of
the Ready-made Garment Industry in Bangladesh.
v)
Condition of Social Security in the Manufacturing
Sector of Bangladesh: Challenges from Gender Perspective.
vi)
4.
Workshop/Seminar:
i)
Presented a paper titled
“Gender based discussion of workers’ rights in Bangladesh” in a
"Conference on Human Rights and Governance Local and Global
Perspective" held during January 16-18, 2005, organized by Manusher
Janno (Promoting Human Right and Good Governance).
ii)
Presented a paper titled
“National Education Budget of Bangladesh and Women’s
Empowerment” held during May 2005, organized by Bangladesh Nari
Progoti Sangha (BNPS)
iii)
Presented a paper titled
“Condition of Social Security in the Manufacturing Sector of Bangladesh:
Challenges from Gender Perspective” held during June 20-22, 2005,
organized by Women's Worlds-05 Korea.
iv)
Presented a paper in a seminar held during April
2005, organized by World Bank Washington.
5.
Others:
1.
Chairperson,
Finance Committee, BIDS.
2.
Member,
Publication Committee, BIDS.
3.