Month: December 2020

New book chapter: the SDGs & the empowerment of Bangladeshi women

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As a contribution to a new open access book about the SDGs, The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda, a new chapter on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh available here.

Preventing child marriage through football
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Preventing child marriage through football, 2016
The UK aid supported Banchte Shekha programme has helped to set up a girls football team in Narail district, helping girls from impoverished backgrounds to avoid child marriage.
The main criteria to be a member of the Joti Nari (meaning shining woman) Football Team is that girls need to be in school, thus preventing them from being married early.

About

Naomi HossainLeave a comment
Rickshaw art depiction of the diplomatic district of Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Mr S. M. Samsu.

I research and write about global development, often about Bangladesh. I currently work as a Research Professor at the Accountability Research Center at American University in Washington DC, on leave from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

I have researched elite perceptions of poverty, food and fuel riots, disaster politics (cyclones, famine, industrial disaster), workers’ rights, women’s empowerment and the role of civil society in development.

This site hosts some of my publicly available work, and links to places where you can find details of the rest.

I can also be found on twitter @nomhossain and LinkedIn