Pathways
South Asia
Pathways South Asia Hub is led by the BRAC Development Institute based at BRAC University, Bangladesh. Working with regional partners its research has covered issues in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
With its primary focus on work, Pathways South Asia offers a comparative intra-regional enquiry into countries with a common majority Muslim identity, but with very different recent histories. The research has explored every day understandings of Islam and gender equality.
Featured Research Projects
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Women and Media in Bangladesh
This project explored how Bangladeshi women engage with television and the meanings, choices and subjectivities they derive from it. Researchers examined changing representations of women and female sexuality and explored how women in different sites and classes engage with television and attach meaning to the images that are represented on screen. They enquired whether and where there are possibilities of empowerment that open up through women's engagement, pleasure, and learning from the media. …
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Women in Local Government in Bangladesh
This project investigated the enabling conditions for women’s participation in local governance and its influence on women’s empowerment. The objectives for this study were to explore the challenges faced by women councillors, how they negotiate these challenges, their own interpretation of their engagement patterns and processes, and whether new gender norms and roles are being created for women in the public domain. …
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Digital Storytelling
Pathways South Asia used digital storytelling to document the experiences of growth and transformation in women's lives from their own perspectives, in their own words and voices. The workshops the team held in Dhaka and Chittagong enabled participants to make a 3-4 minute multimedia presentation by themselves, providing moving testimonies of individual lives and the contexts in which empowerment/disempowerment is experienced. …
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Constituency Building by Women's Organisations
This research project sought to document and analyse strategies and approaches used by selected women’s organisations in Bangladesh to mobilise and advocate for women’s rights and raise demands to the State and other rights holders. The research selected a few key movements to analyse and fed back the findings and analysis to the groups being studied so that they could use that to further reflect on their practice and identify what changes they would like to make to be more effective in the future. …
Address
The South Asia Hub is based at:
The BRAC Development Institute of BRAC University, Bangladesh
Pathways of Women’s Empowerment
BRAC Development Institute
BRAC University
Aarong House, 19th floor
66 Mohakhali C/A
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh
Members
Firdous Azim
Perween Hasan (Dhaka University)
Naomi Hossain (IDS Sussex)
Lopita Huq
Samia Huq
Naila Kabeer (LSE, London)
Mohammed Kamruzzaman
Sahida Islam Khondaker
Simeen Mahmud
Amena Mohsin (Dhaka University)
Sohela Nazneen
Samsoon Noor
Zarina Rahman Khan (Dhaka University)
Samia Afroz Rahim (Communications Officer)
Aanmona Priyadarshini
Sakiba Tasneem
Pakistan:
Neelam Hossain (Simorgh)
Ayesha Khan (Collective for Social Science Research)
Saba Gul Khattak
Afghanistan:
Naysan Adhparvar