Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention

The project titled "Sensitizing communities on CEDAW" was a part of the Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) program implemented in Gazipur to sensitize people about CEDAW to prevent violence against women and sexual harassment. The study aimed to assess the change of knowledge level of s...

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Główni autorzy:	Alim, Md. Abdul, Ali, Rumana
Format:	Working Paper
Język:	en_US
Wydane:	BRAC Research and Evaluation Division 2022
Hasła przedmiotowe:	Community Gazipur Knowledge Patriarchy Sensitizing Women
Dostęp online:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15928

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spelling	10361-159282022-01-16T21:01:37Z Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention Alim, Md. Abdul Ali, Rumana Community Gazipur Knowledge Patriarchy Sensitizing Women The project titled "Sensitizing communities on CEDAW" was a part of the Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) program implemented in Gazipur to sensitize people about CEDAW to prevent violence against women and sexual harassment. The study aimed to assess the change of knowledge level of students and community leaders on CEDAW and sexual harassment. Two rounds of survey data—baseline and endline—were used to assess the change of the project. The difference in changing the knowledge level of the respondents on CEDAW and sexual harassment between the baseline and endline survey was found to be much higher. Still, there was a considerable number of respondents whose knowledge was found to be unchanged or decreased after the intervention. Deeply rooted patriarchal ideology, cultural beliefs and practices were identified as the major reasons behind this fact. It was suggested that BRAC should run this kind of project in a larger scale, targeting larger groups of the population for a longer period of time in order to eliminate dominant patriarchal ideology that keeps women subordinate and oppressed in all spheres of life. 2022-01-16T06:34:34Z 2022-01-16T06:34:34Z 2012 2012-06 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15928 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/sensitizing-communities-to-eliminate-discrimination-and-violence-against-women-an-assessment-of-bracs-intervention/ application/pdf BRAC Research and Evaluation Division
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spellingShingle	Community Gazipur Knowledge Patriarchy Sensitizing Women Alim, Md. Abdul Ali, Rumana Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
description	The project titled "Sensitizing communities on CEDAW" was a part of the Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) program implemented in Gazipur to sensitize people about CEDAW to prevent violence against women and sexual harassment. The study aimed to assess the change of knowledge level of students and community leaders on CEDAW and sexual harassment. Two rounds of survey data—baseline and endline—were used to assess the change of the project. The difference in changing the knowledge level of the respondents on CEDAW and sexual harassment between the baseline and endline survey was found to be much higher. Still, there was a considerable number of respondents whose knowledge was found to be unchanged or decreased after the intervention. Deeply rooted patriarchal ideology, cultural beliefs and practices were identified as the major reasons behind this fact. It was suggested that BRAC should run this kind of project in a larger scale, targeting larger groups of the population for a longer period of time in order to eliminate dominant patriarchal ideology that keeps women subordinate and oppressed in all spheres of life.
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author	Alim, Md. Abdul Ali, Rumana
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title	Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
title_short	Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
title_full	Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
title_fullStr	Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
title_full_unstemmed	Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
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Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention

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