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Influences of Women's Empowerment on Marriage and Violence in Bangladesh

Award Number: R01HD061630
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2010
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/30/2014

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Influences of Women's Empowerment on Marriage and Violence in Bangladesh - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this study is to clarify the individual- and community-level mechanisms by which a woman's empowerment is associated with her risk of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Bangladesh. It employs four innovative methodological strategies to achieve this objective. First, much of the existing research on women's empowerment has used relatively few items to capture a narrow range of dimensions of this concept. This project builds on a prior NIH developmental grant on women's empowerment in Bangladesh (#1R21HD053580 - 01 PI Schuler) by incorporating a comprehensive and contextually appropriate set of indicators of women's empowerment. Second, prior research on attitudes and norms about IPV has used a narrow range of items to capture these concepts, and such items may have been variously (mis)understood by the survey respondents. Here, new measures of attitudes regarding IPV in rural Bangladesh, developed through another developmental research grant from NIH (#1R21HD058173-01 PIs Schuler and Yount) are used. Third, prior studies of contextual influences on IPV have suffered from limited measures of both IPV and community context. This project uses a comprehensive set of measures to characterize the gendered social context, which will appropriately situate individual-level processes of women's empowerment. It also includes a comprehensive set of measures that capture the type and timing of IPV that women experience. Finally, the project combines the strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods to enhance interpretation of the mechanisms by which individual-, couple- and community-level variables operate and interact to influence a woman's risk of experiencing IPV. The quantitative data collection will combine a three-wave (a baseline plus two follow-ups) panel survey of 3500 recently married women (RMW) with one cross-sectional survey, administered at baseline, of 1500 ever-married men(EMM) and 1500 ever-married women (EMW). The survey data elicited from RWM, EMW, and EMM will make it possible to generate 3 categories of indicators to test the study hypotheses in a multilevel analytic framework: independent variables at both the village level and individual levels, individual- level IPV outcomes, and control variables. Qualitative data will consist of 1) life history narratives of young married women with relatively high levels of empowerment in which the evolution of empowerment and IPV in their lives are simultaneously elicited; and 2) group discussions with young married men, young married women (married 2-6 years), and older men and women.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2015	2014	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	3/6/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $462,799 )
2014	2014	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	5	12/11/2013	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$426,923
2014	2014	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	5	2/14/2014	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$34,154
2014	2013	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	11/27/2013	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$1,722
														Subtotal = $462,799

Issue Date FY: 2013 ( Subtotal = $480,843 )
2013	2013	FHI DEVELOPMENT 360 LLC	2224 EAST NORTH CAROLINA	DURHAM	NC	27713	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	1/4/2013	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$458,333
2013	2013	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	003	4	8/30/2013	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$454,686
2013	2013	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	004	4	9/9/2013	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$24,435
2013	2013	FHI DEVELOPMENT 360 LLC	2224 EAST NORTH CAROLINA	DURHAM	NC	27713	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	3	8/27/2013	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$483,286
2013	2013	FHI DEVELOPMENT 360 LLC	2224 EAST NORTH CAROLINA	DURHAM	NC	27713	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	6/12/2013	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$24,953
2013	2013	INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM	POST OFFICE BOX 12037	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	005	4	11/27/2013	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$1,722
														Subtotal = $480,843

Issue Date FY: 2012 ( Subtotal = $460,922 )
2012	2012	FHI DEVELOPMENT 360 LLC	2224 EAST NORTH CAROLINA	DURHAM	NC	27713	DURHAM	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	3/30/2012	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$460,922
														Subtotal = $460,922

Issue Date FY: 2010 ( Subtotal = $563,434 )
2010	2010	ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INC	1875 CONNECTICUT AVE, NW #900	WASHINGTON	DC	20009	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	9/20/2010	NEW	$563,434
														Subtotal = $563,434

Grand Total All Awards = $1,967,998

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Influences of Women's Empowerment on Marriage and Violence in Bangladesh

Award Number: R01HD061630

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2010

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/30/2014

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