Integgra

An 'Initiative for Education, Gender and Growth in Asia' born of collaboration between @UniKent and @unimalaya, co-founded by @zaki_wahhaj and @Niaz_Asadullah

[Niaz Asadullah @Niaz_Asadullah]

🇧🇩 needs new strategies to prevent child marriage. Op-ed in @dailystarnews with @zaki_wahhaj @ Barrister Sara Hossain #SafePlus #DayoftheGirl @blastbd @GlobalInnovFund @GPChildMarriage @UNFPABangladesh @GPtoEndFGM
https://t.co/pOrPnU2JWe

[Niaz Asadullah @Niaz_Asadullah]

Look forward to chairing #DSA2023 conference session #P72 on #genderinequality & #climatechange with 3 panelists @sajedaamin, @meghier & Gabriela Fernando + 7 presenters @RozanaHimaz, @Patel_AmitV, @nadiramaliab Carlotta Smalen, Swaroopa Lahiri & Loretta Asare

@devcomms

[Zaki Wahhaj @zaki_wahhaj]

Listening to young paralegals -- volunteers trained by BLAST -- in Korail slum, Dhaka last week about their activities and insights about #childmarriage practices, hard-hitting and inspiring in equal measure.
@GlobalInnovFund @EconUniKent

[Zaki Wahhaj @zaki_wahhaj]

'Developing Youth Groups to Support Peers at Risk of #childmarriage': Excited to start work on this new collaboration between @EconUniKent & Bangladesh Legal Aid Services Trust w/ @Niaz_Asadullah @data_bd & @mPowerSoc 👉https://t.co/5sL26aFLoA
funded by @GlobalInnovFund

[Niaz Asadullah @Niaz_Asadullah]

#Gender #DigitalDivide is widespread in developing #Asia. One country that has closed the #technology gender gap in school education is #Malaysia. This thread explains how, drawing upon 3 nationwide surveys on secondary students #DigitALL #IWD2023
@MonashMalaysia @InteggraNews

[Development Economics Research Centre, Kent @dereck_unikent]

#gender differences in perceptions of cost/benefit of toilets influence takeup & use of #sanitation loan, but only in households where women have say in decisions, by @AugsburgBritta Malde @EconUniKent/@TheIFS Olorenshaw @TheIFS @zaki_wahhaj 👉https://t.co/Glv71sBfkr
#IWD2023

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

We don't want to start a mad rush to the laptops but the deadline for submitting your paper for #DSA2023 is 13 February.
https://t.co/MJ5ys1vrjh

[Zaki Wahhaj @zaki_wahhaj]

Wage payments via mobile money creating opportunities and demand for digital finance training among female domestic workers in Dhaka: @BIGD_bracu blog piece by Kym Cole on #WEEDiFine study @EconUniKent 👉 https://t.co/970rWbawvc

[Zaki Wahhaj @zaki_wahhaj]

Ongoing #DigitalFinance training by @hellotaskapp for female domestic workers in Dhaka #Bangladesh receiving wages in #mobilemoney accounts, under our (w/ @MalihaRahanaz @EconUniKent @BRACUniversity) @BIGD_bracu WEE-DiFine project.

[Journal of Development Studies (JDS) @JDevStudies]

New in #JDevStudies: @Niaz_Asadullah & Bhattacharjee unpack how learning time at home during the early months of #COVID19 school closures varies by access to technology at home in Bangladesh 🇧🇩

@MonashMalaysia @Glabor_org @save_children

https://t.co/Bd9xjRSUku

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

How should governments navigate the fraught politics of religion and education? @Niaz_Asadullah points to @dsengeh's idea of "radical inclusion." https://t.co/BMmf1FXVVF

[Development Economics Research Centre, Kent @dereck_unikent]

What India 🇮🇳 must learn from Bangladesh's 🇧🇩 attempts to reform #childmarriage law, explains Amrit Amirapu @EconUniKent + Poonam Muttreja, ED @PopFoundIndia + @zaki_wahhaj in the Hindustan Times @htTweets 👉 https://t.co/66Fe19Txm9

[Development Economics Research Centre, Kent @dereck_unikent]

Do intrahousehold differences in perceptions matter for sanitation investments in 🇮🇳? @AugsburgBritta, Bansi Malde @EconUniKent @TheIFS, Harriet Olorenshaw @TheIFS & @zaki_wahhaj write in @Ideas4India drawing on new research👉https://t.co/qa2cmc4sD4

[Monash Malaysia @MonashMalaysia]

Professor @Niaz_Asadullah from the School of Business shares his insights in @Nature Magazine about how #climatechange could drive an increase in gender-based violence. https://t.co/A9ls2dTraX

[Integgra @InteggraNews]

Research on #femalemigration @UniKent & @unimalaya & @data_bd funded by @dfat through ADRAS covered in @TheEconomist

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Some 23 years in the works and costing more than $3.5bn, the Padma bridge promises to connect around 30m people in Bangladesh’s south-west to jobs and trade in the east https://t.co/avlN98CKgM

[Development Economics Research Centre, Kent @dereck_unikent]

'Bridges to Liberty' in this week's @TheEconomist
discusses 'Social Barriers to Female Migration' by Amrit Amirapu @EconUniKent & @Niaz_Asadullah & @zaki_wahhaj just out in the #JDE👉https://t.co/tv5rlfd3Vh https://t.co/xua5oYc7E5

[Global Labor Organization (GLO) @Glabor_org]

Can Child Marriage Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh. A new GLO Discussion paper by GLO Fellows Amrit Amirapu, Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj. https://t.co/55B6ZqUzMw

[Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO @GEMReport]

Download and read the 2022 @GEMReport Gender Report: Deepening the debate on those still left behind. The latest findings on gender equality in education #DeepentheDebate https://t.co/uhU2fzIO8j @annadaddiopro @ICESCO_En @dsengeh @Martinez_Elin @philippalei @Niaz_Asadullah

[Zaki Wahhaj @zaki_wahhaj]

#PadmaBridge, the longest in Bangladesh and its largest infrastructure project to date, will be inagurated on 25th June. Our research on how the bridge that previously held this record affected female migration, marriage and employment in 🇧🇩 now out👉 https://t.co/sOqplJ9GVW

[Global Labor Organization (GLO) @Glabor_org]

Report: GLO Public Lecture on 51 years of Bangladesh’s Development Achievements delivered by Niaz Asadullah. https://t.co/SKsTf1M68s