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South Asia Hub

Woman enjoying the rain


The South Asia Hub is based at the BRAC Development Institute of BRAC University, Bangladesh:



Convenor: Maheen Sultan

Pathways of Women's Empowerment
BRAC Development Institute
BRAC University
Aarong House, 19th floor
66 Mohakhali C/A
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh

Photo/Sheikh Rajibul Islam


Hub website: http://www.bracdevelopmentinstitute.org/women_empowerment.php

Team Members:

Firdous Azim
Perween Hasan (Dhaka University)
Naomi Hossain (IDS Sussex)
Samia Huq
Naila Kabeer (IDS Sussex)
Mohammed Kamruzzaman
Sahida Islam Khondaker
Simeen Mahmud (BIDS)
Amena Mohsin (Dhaka University)
Sohela Nazneen
Samsoon Noor
Zarina Rahman Khan (Dhaka University)
Samia Afroz Rahim (Communications)
Aanmona Priyadarshini
Sakiba Tasneem

Pakistan:
Neelam Hossain (Simorgh)
Ayesha Khan (Collective for Social Science Research)
Saba Gul Khattak

Afghanistan:
Naysan Adhparvar

Partners:

University of Dhaka
University of Delhi
Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan
Simorgh
Women for Women International

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