South Asia Hub
The South Asia Hub is based at BRAC, Bangladesh:
Convenor: Maheen Sultan
Research and Evaluation Division (RED)
BRAC
75 Mohakhali
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh
Photo/Sheikh Rajibul Islam
Hub website: http://www.pathways-sa.org/
Team Members:
Firdous Azim
Perween Hasan (Dhaka University)
Samia Huq
Ferdous Jahan
Naila Kabeer (IDS Sussex)
Sahida Islam Khondaker
Simeen Mahmud (BIDS)
Imran Matin
Amena Mohsin (Dhaka University)
Samia Rahim
Mahjabeen Rahman
Zarina Rahman Khan (Dhaka University)
Pakistan:
Neelam Hossain (Simorgh)
Ayesha Khan (Collective for Social Science Research)
Saba Gul Khattak
Partners:
University of Dhaka
University of Delhi
Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan
Simorgh
Research
This research strategy emerges from the starting point of an overarching rationale for comparative intra-regional enquiry and the common majority Muslim identity in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, countries with very different recent histories, to explore everyday understandings of Islam and gender equality through a comparative framework. The divergences in the experiences of state society relations in Bangladesh and Pakistan provide the overarching framework for comparative research, in terms of how they have given rise to different understandings of body, voice and paid work. Work will be used as the primary entry point.
Projects
National Discourses on Women's Empowerment: Enabling or Constraining Women's Choices
Women in Local Government in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Review of Strategic Approaches to Building Constituencies by Women's Organisations
Working Women Creating Particular Pathways of Change
Women and Religion
Women and Media
Partners: