Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh
Date of Initiation: 01 April 2002
Due date of Completion: Ongoing
Project Director:
 Dr. Binayak Sen (April 2002 – July 2004)
Dr. Quazi Shahabuddin (August 2004 onward)
Funding Agency: DFID-Bangladesh through CPRC, University of Manchester, UK
Project Objective:
The programme seeks to make efforts to reduce poverty in Bangladesh more effective by deepening the understanding of those who are chronically poor, of the processes that keep them in poverty and of the policy measures that will help them to overcome poverty and vulnerability. This goal is to be achieved by the dissemination of policy relevant research findings to government agencies, donors and civil society and by developing the capacity of Bangladeshi research institutions to undertake research on chronic poverty. A particular feature is the publication of the Bangladesh Chronic Poverty Report.
The programme which is being implemented in collaboration with CPRC is based at BIDS and draws upon highly reputed researchers as well as development practitioners from BIDS and other research institutes and NGOs.
Distribution of Benefits of Diesel Subsidy to Farmers and its Effectiveness
Date of Initiation: April 2008
Date of Completion: Ongoing
Project Director:
Dr. M. Asaduzzaman
Team Members:
Dr. K.M. Nabiul Islam
Funding Agency: Ministry of Agriculture
Project Objective:
The project tries to find out the extent to which the diesel subsidy has reached the farmers.
Project output
Draft report on ‘Distribution of Benefits of Diesel Subsidy to Farmers and Its Effectiveness’
Re-emergence of Food Insecurity in Bangladesh: Instability in Food Production and Prices, Nature of Food Markets, Impact and Policy
Date of Initiation: October 2007
Date of Completion: Ongoing
Project Director:
Dr. K.A.S. Murshid
Team Members:
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali
Dr. Nazneen Ahmed
Dr. Md. Yunus
Funding Agency: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Project Objective:
Recent volatility of food markets has led to concerns of re-emerging food insecurity. The study examines the nature and trend of price-quantity instability in food (rice, potato and brinjal) and then examines market performance using conventional approaches as well as from the perspective of real market relationships and real market operations.
Project Output
A Study report on ‘Food Fortification: Combating Intergenerational Malnutrition among the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh’.
Religion and Development
Date of Initiation: February 2007
Date of Completion: Ongoing
Project Director:
Dr. S.M. Zulfiqar Ali
Funding Agency: University of Bath, UK Project Objective:
This research component builds on and extends existing work within the ESRC Research Group on the Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) research programme The aim of the religion and development research is to explore the significance of religion to the values and practices that make up the social and cultural construction of wellbeing in selected sites of Bangladesh
Benefit Monitoring and Evaluation of Small Scale Water Resources Sector Project– II
Date of Initiation: August 2006
Date of Completion:31 August, 2009
Project Director:
Dr K.M. Nabiul Islam
Team Members:
Dr. Quazi Shahabuddin,
Dr. M. Asaduzzaman,
Dr. M. Salim Ullah,
Dr. Pratimal Paul Mazumder,
Prof. Quamrul Ahsan Chowdhury
Dr. Md. Abul Quasem
Mr. Mohamed Nuruzzaman
Mr. Mirza M. Shafiqur Rahman
Mr. Md. Karimullah Bhuyan
Ms. Nehraz Mahmud
Funding Agency: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Project Objective:
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) implemented 280 small scale water resources management subprojects during its first phase (1995-2000). Another 300 subprojects are currently under implementation during its second phase (2002-2009). The purpose of the subprojects is to improve water management, flood management, drainage improvement, water conservation and command area development, benefiting a net area of up to 1,000 ha with a view to increasing production in agriculture and fishery resources, generating more income and employment, thereby contributing to overall reduction in poverty. The study has two components: one involves a benchmark study of 30 subprojects of the second phase, to be carried out before their implementation. The second component involves carrying out evaluation for 10 subprojects of SSWRDSP-1, for which a baseline study was carried out back in 2002.
Component - I: The purpose of the Benefit Monitoring and Evaluation (BME) Study of SSWRDSP-I1 subprojects, covering 30 subprojects in various locations is to generate benchmark data concerning water management, flood management, drainage improvement, water conservation, command area development and socio-economic aspects, carried out before the implementation of the subprojects. Such benchmark data will be used in impact assessment study at some later stage.
Component - II: The purpose of the Impact Evaluation Study is to examine the performance of the SSWRDSP-I subprojects, in respect to water management, flood management, drainage improvement, water conservation and issues related to socio-economic development, carried out through covering 10 subprojects, for which a baseline study was already carried out by LGED back in 2002
Project Output:
30 Benchmark Reports (30 Individual Subprojects)
1 Synthesis Report (combining 30 Subprojects)
1 Impact Evaluation (Covering 10 Subprojects)
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