The South Asia Hub of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium (RPC) is based at the BRAC Development Institute of BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Their partners are: the University of Dhaka, the University of Delhi, the Collective for Social Science Research in Pakistan, Simorgh in Pakistan, and Women for Women International.
Their research aims to explore everyday understandings of Islam and gender equality in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The differences in how the relations between state and civil society are experienced in Bangladesh and Pakistan provide the overarching framework for comparative research, particularly around issues of security in and control over one’s body, ability to articulate one’s rights and needs and paid work.
Their research projects include:
- National Discourses on Women’s Empowerment: Enabling or Constraining Women’s Choices
- Women in Local Government in Bangladesh and Pakistan
- Review of Strategic Approaches to Building Constituencies by Women’s Organisations
- Working Women Creating Particular Pathways of Change
- Women and Religion
- Women and Media