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4 2005 - 3 2008

Grant type：Competitive

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4 2002 - 3 2005

Grant number：14510210

Grant type：Competitive

In August 2002. August 2003, March 2004. and from December 2004 to January 2005, we stayed in Bangladesh and executed the field investigation. The field visits for investigation are as follows: UNICEF Bangladesh, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, Garment Factory, Local NGOs, Ministry of Finance, Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Government Publications, The University Press Limited, Rubi Enterprise, Slum site in Agargaon area (in Dhaka City), Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development and Library, Kotowali Thana Central Co?operative Association, Daudkandi District office and District Statistics Bureau. Goaripur Union and its former chairman of Union Parishad, The poorer and slum site in Shorpopenai union, A member of KTCCA in Nogorpaar union (in Comilla Prefecture). The method of investigation is the way to interview with the rural poorer, the driven?out slum dwellers and the staffs of related organizations that we visited.
The child labour, especially child domestic servant and the child labour in the garment factories, and the street children are faced with many difficulties in Dhaka city, Bangladesh and those problems are serious. As result from considering and analyzing as for the factors that caused the problems of child labour and street children coming from rural village, we think their generation are deeply related to Rural Poverty. Frankly speaking, if the problems of poorest that live in rural village are not solved, their generation will not be fundamentally disappeared. Therefore, in this time, we investigated not only the present situation of child labour and the activities of local NGOs in Dhaka, but also the influence of the already practiced aids and development on the lives of rural dwellers while staying in village of Comilla prefecture. Moreover, we tried to collect materials and the documents at the BARD library. Comilla prefecture include the region where "Green revolution" is executed as Comilla Model in advance of other prefectures and ODA of Japan granted Model Rural Development Project. However, the influence of this ODA and developments on the lives of rural dwellers has not been necessarily clarified up to now. We are writing the results of our investigation.

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4 1999 - 3 2002

Grant number：11610229

Grant type：Competitive

In Bangladesh, since independent of 1971, the foreign countries have done various assistance and developments with an enormous sum of fund. Especially seeings as to bilateral aid, Bangladesh has been the top of the largest recipients of Japan's Grant Aid. Nevertheless, at present more than half of people in Bangladesh is in the condition of absolute poverty and about 80% of these absolute poor people live in rural areas. Therefore a lot of illiterate people exist because of this poverty and the literacy rate remains low today. This is nominated as one of the social problems in Bangladesh.
In our study, from a viewpoint of our approach to the problems of poverty and illiteracy,we take up the rural development, the urban slum and Child Labor (especially Child Domestic Servants) as the mainly social development problems and consider the supporting system in Bangladesh. The contents are as follows. In the first place, from a viewpoint of the influence of Japan's grant aid on the rural poor people, we investigated the present situation of the rural development and the living condition of the poor and report its results. Concretely, we take up Japan' s Grant Aid for Model Rural Development Project, especially the technical cooperation and elementary schools provided through it, and consider those performance and results. In the next place, we investigated and cinsider the condition of slum dwellers' lives in metropolitan Dhaka from a point of viewing the influence of compulsory eviction policy on them. In the third place, getting the cooperation of local NGO, we investigated and consider the condition of children' s lives, leaving their household in rural areas and working in opther people' s household as live-in Child Domestic Servants in metropolitan Dhaka, and also the relation of their recruit concerned three persons such as an employer, a guardian and a guarantor.
Some of the local NGOs actively practice primary education program for the poorest' s children in Bangladesh. It is a characteristic that the supports for eliminating poverty and acquiring literacy have been mainly undertaken by local NGOs, but the role of government has been small in doing. However, both of them have depended on Aids, which have been provided by the governments or NGOs of foreign countries or the international organization and so on. Therefore, the way of Aid has influenced greatly on them, Japan' s ODA has been asked for increased continuous supports to local NGOs. Also, the policy of Bangladesh government and the way of external aids continuous ought to give priority to the poorest people in Bangladsh.

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