Social Development in Rural Bangladesh: The Organization for Poor Women by BRAC

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  • バングラデシュ農村の社会開発―BRACによる貧困女性の組織化
  • バングラデシュ ノウソン ノ シャカイ カイハツ BRAC ニ ヨル ヒンコン ジョセイ ノ ソシキカ

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<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the social development of poor women in rural Bangladesh. Our research is based on previous studies and interviews conducted during 1997-2010. The primary focus of this study is BRAC's social development programme for poor rural women in Daudkandi Thana, Kumilla District.</p><p>BRAC is one of the largest NGOs in Bangladesh. It launched a social development programme in Daudkandi Thana in 2000. The programme officers, who are staff members of BRAC, initiated talks with poor rural women who have been excluded from the foreign-aid-funded rural development projects in the area. They recognize that poor women at the bottom of the social scale are poor women who are illiterate, and as a result, their children are victims of the widening gap between the rich and poor. The programme officers believed that poor women will be able to become independent if they are provided with adequate support. Therefore, they have worked with poor women, to organize a samity (village organization) which is at the core of the social development programme. Once samity has been established, samity members are made aware of the extent of social problems around them by BRAC's consciousness raising programme. They have also been participating in the social development programme that helped reduce their vulnerability.</p><p>BRAC organizes poor women at the grass-roots level and raises their social awareness. BRAC's unique, holistic approach towards poverty reduction and empowerment of poor women is different from those adopted by other institutions providing foreign aids, which are emblematic of the modernization theory in context to their assumptions and effectiveness of the trickledown effect. Therefore, in this paper, we also explore case studies that prove the endogenous development theory to be valid.</p>

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