Exploring Bangladeshi adolescents' gendered experiences and perspectives

This brief summarises the findings of GAGE’s formative qualitative work in Bangladesh—which took place in 2016 in two communities, one rural (Rangpur) and one urban (Adabor). Both have a variety of adolescent programming from the NGO BRAC. Based on individual and group interviews with almost 275 people, approximately 175 of whom were adolescents between the ages of 10 and 15, we found that despite significant recent progress, adolescents’-especially girls’- capabilities continue to be truncated. We also found that adolescent programming has positive impacts on young people’s capabilities.

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Camfield, L., Rashid, S. F. and Sultan, M. (2017) Exploring Bangladeshi adolescents’ gendered experiences and perspectives. Report. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence. (https://www.gage.odi.org/publication/bangladeshi-adolescents-gendered-experiences-and-perspectives/)