Moksheda's Winrock Project
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Update
I have started my impact monitoring work since the sixth of June. I had enough time for planning this work, so June has been a laid back month for me. I finished my first field visit last week and will go on another one in the next two weeks. I am really looking forward to these next field trips to northern Bangladesh and southern Bangladesh. The first field trip is to Khulna district. In south Bangladesh, prawn farming is common. Hopefully, I will get some opportunity to visit some prawn hatcheries. Prawns are hatched in saline water and then they have to be transferred to non-saline water. These little creatures are very protective of their females. I think it is cool that these tiny things have so much personality. I am going to Khulna to conduct impact monitoring of technology dissemination in aquaculture. My last trip is to Bogra, which is six hours from Dhaka. I will be doing impact monitoring of technology dissemination in potato farming.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Women in Bangladesh
I have visited some areas in Bangladesh. Most visits were during the panchayat level election time. I am impressed with how active women are in Bangladesh. Many of election candidates were women. In fact, places where I conducted focus group discussion, I got to watch some woman candidate campaign for election. I understand Bangla about 80 percent and I can tell her campaign was great. It was a very powerful political campaign. I cannot even imagine coming up with such agenda for a political campaign. In focus group discussions I had invited 12 women, but in one of my focus group, there were 30 participants. I asked them why they all wanted to come. They told me they had lot to say and I thought that was great. Bangladeshi women participation in politics is an equally impressive thing. The major political leaders are women and the major ministries are run by women.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
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