• BIGD’s Visiting Fellow Ms. Maheen Sultan was a discussant at a workshop titled “Country Gender Assessment of Agriculture and Rural Sector (CGA-ARS): Bangladesh” on 7th January 2018, at a city hotel. The workshop was organized by FAO Bangladesh. The CGA-ARS is mandated by FAO’s Policy on Gender Equality. The objective of the CGA-ARS is to reveal critical factors to ensure equality of access to critical agricultural resources, knowledge, opportunity and access.
• Head Gender Cluster & CGST, Ms. Simeen Mahmud and Research Fellow Ms. Lopita Huq participated in the Dissemination Seminar titled “Measuring the Effect of HERrespect: An Intervention Addressing Violence against Female Garment Workers in Four Factories of Bangladesh” on 15th January 2018. The seminar was organized by icddr,b. Professor John David Clemens, Executive Director, icddr,b chaired the seminar. The research findings were presented by Dr. Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Senior Scientist, Universal Health Coverage, Health System and Population Studies Division of icddr,b.
• Ms. Kabita Chowdhury, Ms. Sahida Khondaker, Research Associate; Sufia Khatun and Sanjida Parvin, Research Assistant of BIGD conducted qualitative fieldwork in the slums of Dhaka for the GAGE Urban Study research programme.