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Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium2013 Internship Scheme

atRefugee and Migration Movements

Research Unit (RMMRU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Duncan Knox

RMMRU Internship work based in Dhaka

Work within office: developing survey methodology developing questionnaire, coding, checking surveys, writing progress reports on survey projects, writing literature review. Team based and independent work.

Work outside office: attending and presenting at workshops including: RMMRU Impact of Migration on Poverty and Development Workshop, RMMRU New Knowledge on Climate Change and Migration in Bangladesh, BRAC migration workshop, World Bank Bangladesh Poverty Assessment Launch.

Work outside office (continued): preparing, assisting and presenting at RMMRU Impact of Migration on Poverty and Development Training Workshop – training survey enumerators for fieldwork

Internship Fieldwork

• 3 day trip to Tangail district• 10 day trip to Comilla district

Attending and conducting Key Informant Interviews (KII). The KII enabled aggregated village level information to be collected for each village in the survey.

Attending household questionnaires: assisting team supervisor Ms. Marina Sultana in carrying out household questionnaires

Attending household questionnaires: selected households often invited us to complete the survey inside their houses

Attending household questionnaires: guiding and giving performance feedback to enumerator team when necessary

Planning and communicating with enumerator, sampling strategy and checking survey quality

Record village development indicators : e.g. number of pharmacies in village

Visit areas relating to migration and development: e.g. cooperative brickfield factory. Some migrants used remittance earnings to invest in this venture

Attend Migrant Rights Protection Committee meeting

Forms of Transport Ifrequently used in Bangladesh

Rickshaw

CNG ‘baby taxi’

Bus

Launch boat

Accommodation

Dhaka University, Teacher Student Centre GuesthouseOutside view

Dhaka University, Teacher Student Centre GuesthouseInside view

Private shared flat on Elephant RoadView from 15 storey balcony

Leisure time in Dhaka

Visiting local markets and bazaars

Visiting University area

Days of national celebration

Visit cultural sites and monuments

Travel opportunities

Boat trip to City of Chandpur

Trip to Sundarbans (Worlds largest mangrove forest)

Trekking in Sundarbans

Trekking in Sundarbans (continued)

Sightseeing

Experience of rural life