Insights from Qualitative Inclusive, Participatory Fieldwork with Learners with Deafblindness and Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Phase Two
| dc.contributor.author | Wickenden, Mary | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Stephen | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Bangladesh | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-27T14:58:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-27T14:58:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-06 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wickenden, M. and Thompson, S. (2023) Insights from Qualitative Inclusive, Participatory Fieldwork with Learners with Deafblindness and Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Phase Two, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2023.032 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/18029 | |
| dc.description | Learners are given technical training and placed with a ‘Master Crafts Person’ (MCP) to learn their chosen trade over six months. The specific intervention we explored was tailored to include people with more complex and or marginalised types of impairments. Our research fieldwork engaged groups of learners with specific identities (deafblind in Rangpur or young women in Rangpur) in two four-day workshops, using the theme ‘World of Work’ and aimed to understand their experiences as young people with disabilities, both in general and about this training and work-focussed programme. Phase Two involved two cohorts of learners both of whom had completed the training programme. Inclusive, creative, visual and arts based multi-modal methods were used to encourage maximum participation, including with those learners with little or no spoken language or literacy. Some were accompanied by family members (e.g. parent or sibling) who also shared their perspectives on supporting their relative learn a trade and gain increased autonomy and independence. Local staff teams from collaborating INGOs and Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs) supported, participated in and learnt from the process. Recommendations from the participants are provided as well as reflections on their experience of the programme and on how learning a trade had impacted on their lives. Concerns remain about continuing stigma and discrimination against the learners as people with disabilities, which still occurs both within families and in the community. This was particularly marked for women with disabilities who were seen to experience more negative gender based negative attitudes and treatment than men in many situations. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper describes and discusses a piece of inclusive and participatory fieldwork undertaken in January 2023, that followed on from and complemented an earlier piece of research in the same sites in Bangladesh in 2022. Please see the report from Shaw and Wickenden (2022) for more details of the first visit. The current work was carried out in Rangpur and Rajshahi in Bangladesh in close collaboration with local and international NGOs working on disability as part of the UK government Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) funded Disability Inclusive Development (DID) programme. Informed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN 2006), Task Order 12 (TO12) in the DID programme affirms disabled people’s right to work and is modelled on and adapted from the mainstream STAR youth employment programme run by BRAC in Bangladesh. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Development Policy | en |
| dc.subject | Participation | en |
| dc.subject | Rights | en |
| dc.subject | Work and Labour | en |
| dc.title | Insights from Qualitative Inclusive, Participatory Fieldwork with Learners with Deafblindness and Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Phase Two | en |
| dc.type | Other | en |
| dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.team | Participation Power and Social Change | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/IDS.2023.032 | |
| rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
| rioxxterms.identifier.project | Disability Inclusive Development | en |
| rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.19088/IDS.2023.032 | en |
| rioxxterms.funder.project | 06305b6b-cfc2-4e23-b4e7-4558f03946ba | en |
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