Author: K. M. Rabiul Karim
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-05-02
Year: 2005
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2005
Examination Committee: Bernadette P. Resurreccion (Chairperson); Kyoko Kusakabe, Ganesh P. Shivakoti (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This study was undertaken to investigate and explain how gender roles in irrigation water use and management at both intra-household and inter-household level have been shaped in the context of a triangular interaction between traditional gender norms, peoples socio-economic conditions, and irrigation development interventions in rural Bangladesh. It explains the influences of gender norms as well as socio-economic factors on typical gender specific roles in both irrigated agricultural production and irrigation decision-making processes in an agrarian village of Bangladesh. The field study was conducted between July and September of 2004 in Dharmahata, a village of northwestern Bangladesh, located at 18 km of the northwest of Rajshahi Divisional headquarters. A mixed (both qualitative and quantitative) approach was followed to pursue the research tasks. The primary data was collected through key informant interviews, household survey, unstructured interviews with household members, and focus group interviews with formal and informal irrigation water user group members. Key informants and WUGs were selected purposively while households were selected through simple random sampling procedure. By assuming 95% C.I. the estimated sample size was 196 out of 383 households in Dharmahata village. Questionnaire schedule was drawn up to conduct the household survey while interview checklists and FGD guidelines were followed to conduct unstructured interviews and focus group discussions respectively. Both descriptive and inferential statistics as well as thick description techniques were used to analyze the data. The study shows that landholding is the crucial asset that primarily shapes households livelihood types since farming is the backbone of all economic activities as groundwater irrigation development has intensified annual cropping pattern as well as irrigated agricultural production in Dharmahata village. However, it is also shown that although households landholding is rather important relating to mens status and
Scholarship Donor(s): Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship; Norwegian Agency for International Development Cooperation Scholarship
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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