Bangladesh | The Impact Initiative

Aftermath of the fire at Sat'tola slum at Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Supporting the social mobility of trapped populations in very poor urban areas

Principal Investigator: Michael Collyer. Lead Organisation: University of Sussex

Co-investigators: JoAnn McGregor; William Andrew Baldwin; Laura Christine Hammond; Dominic Robert Kniveton; Richard Black; Saleemul Huq; Kudzai Chatiza; Danesh Jayatilaka

Choice constraint and the gender dynamics of labour markets in West Bengal

Principal Investigator: Naila Kabeer. Lead Organistion: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Co-investigator: Ashwini Deshpande (University of Delhi)

Graduation as resilience stage two

Principal Investigator: Mushtaque Chowdhury. Lead Organisation: BRAC Centre

Co-investigators: Asheek Mohammad Shimul; Ferdous Jahan; Martin Greeley

Zero Hunger - Zero Emissions: Enabling the debate on how to feed the world whilst mitigating climate change

Principal Investigator: Monika Barbara Zurek. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford (School of Geography and the Environment).

Energy on the Move: longitudinal perspectives on energy transitions among marginal populations (a comparative study)

Examining the energy practices of very poor women, men and young people living in informal settlements in peri-urban situations in Nigeria, South Sudan, Nepal and Bangladesh and how these are changing, drawing comparative lessons.

Safe and sustainable cities: human security, migration, and well-being

This project seeks to incorporate migrant perspectives and sources of innovation into urban planning to build safer and more sustainable cities, addressing environmental sustainability, poverty, and conflict and security.

Schoolchildren in Sonargaon, Bangladesh.

Investing in our future: the early childhood intervention and parental involvement in Bangladesh

Principal Investigator: Asadul Islam. Lead Organisation: Monash University

Co-investigators: Ummul Ruthbah; John List; Anya Samek; Steven Stillman; Stefan Boes

A market stall holder in northern Uganda

Basic entrepreneurship: a means for transforming the economic lives of the poor?

The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. This project examines randomised evaluations of an innovative anti-poverty program which tackles capital and skills constraints at the same time in an effort to encourage occupational change among the world’s poorest women.

Gender Norms, Labour Supply and Poverty Reduction in Comparative Context: Evidence from Rural India and Bangladesh

Researchers measure the gender impact of poverty alleviation interventions in rural India and Bangladesh, including how impact has been mediated where cultural attitudes affect women's work and the affect of interventions.

Choice, constraints and the gender dynamics of labour markets in Bangladesh

Principal Investigator: Naila Kabeer. Lead Organistion: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Co-investigators: James Heintz (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Simeen Mahmud (BRAC University)

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