investing in ourselves : GIVING AND FUND RAISING IN BANGLADESH

investing
in
ourselves
G I V I N G A N D
F U N D R A I S I N G
I N B A N G L A D E S H
DR. MUZAFFER AHMAD
MS. ROUSHAN JAHAN

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I N V E S T I N G I N O U R S E L V E S
G I V I N G A N D F U N D R A I S I N G
I N B A N G L A D E S H

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investing
in
ourselves
G I V I N G A N D
F U N D R A I S I N G
I N B A N G L A D E S H
DR. MUZAFFER AHMAD
MS. ROUSHAN JAHAN
W I T H S U P P O R T F R O M
Asian Development Bank
The Asia Foundation
Nippon Foundation
United States Agency
for International
Development (USAID)

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The Authors
Dr. Muzaffer Ahmad
EDUCATED AT DHAKA, Paris, and Chicago, Dr. Ahmad is currently Profes-
sor of Economics and Development Management at the Institute of Busi-
ness Administration of the University of Dhaka. He has served as Advisor to
the President of Bangladesh, Chief of Industries Division in the Planning
Commission, Senior Executive of Industrial Development Corporations,
and a member of various National Commissions.
He has been associated with the establishment and work of various re-
search and professional institutions such as the Bangladesh Institute of Bank
Management (BIBM), Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS),
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), Centre
For Policy Dialogue (CPD), Transparency International (TI), among others.
His research publications have covered the fields of Economics, Political
Economy, Politics and Governance, Public Administration, Social Science,
and International Relations, among others. His recent work has been in the
area of Education, Health, Corruption, Civil Society, Local Governance,
and Development issues.
Dr. Ahmad has also consulted for many UN agencies, and has been a
visiting fellow or professor in universities and institutions in the US, Japan,
Norway, and the Republic of Korea. His noted publications include Public
Enterprise in an Intermediate Regime, State and Development, Workers Self-
Management, State, State of Education, Governance and Development, among
others.
Ms. Roushan Jahan
A LITERARY SCHOLAR, researcher and women’s activist, Ms. Jahan gradu-
ated from the Universities of Dhaka and Chicago. She taught English at the
University of Dhaka before leaving the academia and founding Women for
Women, the first autonomous women’s research and advocacy organization
in Bangladesh in 1973. Since then, she has been engaged in research on

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Women and Development. Her areas of specialization are Literacy and Edu-
cation, Employment, Health and Population, Violence against Women, and
cross-cultural studies. During the last two decades she has acted as a con-
sultant to the Government of Bangladesh and various regional and interna-
tional bodies, including UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, APDC, SAARC secretariat,
to help prepare national policies and regional strategies in the areas of her
specialization. Ms. Jahan has also represented Bangladesh and presented coun-
try reports in many regional and international fora, including UN Women’s
Conferences in Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995).
As a Vice-President of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, the largest women’s
activist organization in the country, and an active member of APWLD and
DAWN, two international women’s networks, she has been a part of the dy-
namic and international women’s movement during the last two decades.
Her publication Sultana’s Dream and Selections from the Secluded Ones
(New York : The Feminist Press, 1988), is recommended reading in many
US college and universities. Her books, No better options?: Industrial Women
Workers of Bangladesh (Dhaka: University Press Ltd, 1990), Literary for Ru-
ral Women , (Dhaka UNAB, 1993) and Hidden Danger: Women and Family
Violence in Bangladesh (Dhaka: Women For Women, 1994) have drawn
critical acclaim both in Bangladesh and abroad.
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