South Asia Hub
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
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
Partners: