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faraha.nawaz@gmail.com, faraha.nawaz@ru.ac.bd
DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI, BANGLADESH
Dr. FARAHA NAWAZ
PROFESSOR
Public Administration
- Education Summary
- PHD (AUSTRALIA), RESEARCH SCHOLAR (UK)
- Research Interest
- Public Policy Analysis, Local Governance, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society, Good Governance, Migration Governance, Poverty, Gender and Development in South Asia, Entrepreneurship
| Level | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctoral (PhD) |
Flinders University of South Australia | 2015 |
| Masters (MSS) |
Rajshahi University | 2007 |
| Bachelor/Honors (BSS) |
Rajshahi University | 2006 |
| Higher Secondary (HSC) |
Rajshahi Education Board | 2001 |
| Secondary (SSC) |
Rajshahi Education Board | 1999 |
Experience in Rajshahi University
| Duration | Organization/Institute | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-17 to | Public Administration | Associate Professor |
| 2013-01-02 to 2017-06-16 | Public Administration | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR |
| 2010-01-02 to 2013-01-01 | Public Administration | LECTURER |
Experience in other Organization/Institute
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Book
| 1. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Climate Change Mitigation and Green Entrepreneurship: Risks and Response, Climate Change Mitigation and Green Entrepreneurship: Risks and Response,"
NOVA science publisher, New York, USA
Published: December 2020
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| 2. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Microfinance and Women’s empowerment in Bangladesh: Unpacking the Untold Narratives, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, London"
Published
Published: January 2019
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| 3. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Strengthening Awareness among Rural Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh: A Case Study on Adolescent Development Program of BRAC"
Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany
Published: January 2011
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Book Chapter
| 1. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Empowering marginalised women through entrepreneurship: Breaking the barrier"
In Lokuge (Eds) ‘Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital Era’, IGI Global, Pennsylvania, USA
Published: August 2020
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| 2. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Conscientization among rural women: A case of Bangladesh"
In Nilan (Eds) 'Conscientization', Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, New York
Published: January 2018
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| 3. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Strategy for Improving Human Capital in Bangladesh and Nepal: Does it help for women Empowerment?"
In Saber, S. A et,al, (Eds) Governance and Human Capital, the 21st Century Agenda
Published: January 2011
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Journal
| 1. |
Faraha Nawaz, AKM Ahsan Ullah and Diotima Chattoraj
"Locked Up Under Lockdown the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Population"
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3631707 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3631707
Published: December 2020
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| 2. |
Faraha Nawaz and A.K. M. Ahsan Ullah
"Surrogacy led migration: Reflections on Policy Dilemmas. Public Administration and Policy"
DOI 10.1108/PAP-03-2020-0014
Published: July 2020
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| 3. |
Faraha Nawaz and Dr Nayan Kanwal
"Challenges of public policy implementation: Consumers Rights Protection Act in Bangladesh, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research"
2 (1): 51 – 60
Published: June 2020
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| 4. |
Faraha Nawaz, Dr AKM Ahsan Ullah, Md Akram Hossain and Mohammad Azizuddin
"Social research methods: migration in perspective, Migration Letters"
17(2):351-362
Published: April 2020
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| 5. |
Faraha Nawaz
"The Impact of Non-Go The Impact of Non-Government Organizations on Women’s
Mobility in Public Life: An Empirical Study in Rural Bangladesh, Journal of International Women’s Studies"
Vol 21(2):91-113
Published: April 2020
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| 6. |
Faraha Nawaz, Dr A.K.M. Ahsan Ullah, Dr Shirley Chin Wei Lee, Dr Noor Hasharina Hassan
"Xenophobia in the GCC countries: migrants’ desire and distress, Global Affairs"
Vol 6(2):1-22
Published: March 2020
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| 7. |
Faraha Nawaz and Tania Afrin Tonny
"Reintegration Challenges of Migrants in Bangladesh: A Study on Forced Returnee Women Migrants from Saudi Arabia. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences"
Vol 1(1):49-58
Published: December 2019
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| 8. |
Faraha Nawaz, Abu Elias Sarker
"Adverse Political Incentives and Obstinate Behavioural Norms, A Study of Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh, International Review of Administrative Sciences"
Published
Published: June 2019
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| 9. |
Faraha Nawaz, Habib Zafarullah
"Pathways to women’s empowerment in Bangladesh, Journal of Asian Education and Development Studies"
Published
Published: April 2019
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| 10. |
Faraha Nawaz, Abu Elias Sarker
"Clientelism, Patriarchy and Democratic Backsliding: Role of local Government elections in Bangladesh, South Asian Survey."
Published
Published: April 2019
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| 11. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Social Capital, Collective action and Women’s empowerment, South Asian Journal of Policy and Governance"
Published
Published: December 2018
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| 12. |
Faraha Nawaz
"An Analysis of the role of Community Empowerment Program in Combatting Domestic Violence against women: A Case Study of Bangladesh, Pertanika Journal of Scoial Science and Humanities"
Published
Published: January 2018
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| 13. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Strengthening women through group participation trust and networks: A study on women's self helps groups in Bangladesh,Journal of Social Science and Humanities"
Vol. 25(1):45-60
Published: November 2017
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| 14. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Women’s decision-making agency: An Ethnographic study on selected women borrowers of ACD, Bangladesh, Society and Change"
Vol.11(2):33-49
Published: April 2017
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| 15. |
Faraha Nawaz and Dr Helen Mclaren
"Silencing hardship: Bangladeshi women, microfinance and reproductive work, Social Alternatives:"
Vol. 35(1)
Published: January 2016
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| 16. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Violence, Gender and Environmental Justice in India: A Critical Analysis, Scholars Bulletin"
Vol-1(4): 96-101
Published: September 2015
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| 17. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Microfinance, Financial Literacy, and Household Power Configuration in Rural Bangladesh: An Empirical Study on Some Credit Borrowers, International Journal of Voluntary and Non Profit Organizations"
Vol.26 (4): 1100-1121.
Published: May 2015
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| 18. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Can Women Travel to the Policy Making Level in Bangladesh? Rural Women’s Political Representation, Participation and Empowerment in the Context of Microfinance, Journal of Social Science and Humanities"
Vol. 22 (3)
Published: June 2014
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| 19. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Conscientisation and Action towards Spousal Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh: Can Credit-driven Self-employment Make Women less Vulnerable?,Nepalese journal of Public Policy and Governance"
Vol.33 (2)
Published: December 2013
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| 20. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Bargaining with Poverty: An Empirical Review on Some Rural Women in Bangladesh, Studies of Home and Community Science"
Vol.7 (2):87-94
Published: September 2013
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| 21. |
Faraha Nawaz
"An Empirical Study on Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover in Cell Phone Servicing Companies: Bangladesh Context,Asian Journal of Empirical Research"
Vol.3 (5):510-519
Published: March 2013
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| 22. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Problems of Women Entrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh: A Study on Some Selected Women Entrepreneurs Financed By RAKUB, Rajshahi Branch, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Journal of Social Science and Humanities"
Vol.20(3):601-614
Published: March 2013
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| 23. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Power, Empowerment and Participatory Development, Conceptual Linkages, Open journal of Social Science"
Vol. 1(2):26-30
Published: February 2013
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| 24. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Global Gender Justice in 21st Century: Lessons and the Way Forward, The Social Sciences"
Vol. 8(4):290-294
Published: February 2013
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| 25. |
Faraha Nawaz and Md. Nurun Nabi Shah
"Mechanisms and Challenges for managing disaster in Bangladesh,African Journal of History and Culture"
Vol. 3(7): 104-112
Published: August 2011
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| 26. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Nexus between Women Entrepreneurship Development and women Empowerment: Bangladesh context, Nepalese Journal of Public Policy & Governance,"
Vol. 26(3):62-74
Published: July 2010
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| 27. |
Faraha Nawaz and Salahuddin Ahmed
"The Effectiveness of Adolescent Development of BRAC in Strengthening Awareness Regarding Social Issues among Rural Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study, Journal of Home and Community Science"
Vol-03(1):7-11
Published: September 2009
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| 28. |
Faraha Nawaz
"SME program of BRAC Bank: It’s Impact on Poverty Alleviation among Poor Women in Bangladesh, AIUB Journal of Business and Economics"
Vol.08 (2):127-141
Published: January 2009
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| 29. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Adolescent Development Program of BRAC: It’s Impact on Awareness Elevation of Rural Adolescent Girls, AIUB Journal of Business and Economics"
Vol. 07(1):26-32
Published: May 2008
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| 30. |
Faraha Nawaz and Sarfaraz Nawaz
"Impact of Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Program on Socioeconomic Development of poor women in Bangladesh: A Case Study On SME Program of BRAC Bank, Independent Business Review"
Vol.01 (2):32-36
Published: January 2008
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Conference
| 1. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Green Entrepreneurship as a strategy of mitigating climate change: Exploring the obstacles,"
7th International Conference on Public Administration and Development, BPATC, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Published: July 2020
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| 2. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Social Accountability in Developing Countries: In search of a framework."
International Conference on Governance and Development: Asian Perspective
Published: January 2017
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| 3. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Women's decision making agency: An ethnographic study of selected women borrowers of ACD, Bangladesh"
3rd International Integrative Research Conference on Development, Governance and Transformation
Published: December 2016
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| 4. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Let Rural Women Speak Out: Critical Evaluation of Third Sector on Gender Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh"
CIMaR 2013 International Conference, University of Adelaide, Australia
Published: April 2013
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| 5. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Ideals and Realities of Microfinance in translating Gender Power Relations: Lessons from Bangladesh."
ISTR Asia Pacific Regional Conference,
Kim Koo Museum and Library, Seoul, South Korea
Published: January 2013
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| 6. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Do NGOs foster Social Capital and Empowerment of Rural Women? An Assessment of Two NGOs in Bangladesh,"
International Development Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Published: December 2012
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| 7. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Microfinance Programs in Rural Bangladesh: Their contribution on fostering social capital among women at grassroots level"
Culture, Identity and Environment in South Asia, New Zealand South Asia CentreUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Published: September 2012
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| 8. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Disaster and Coping Strategies: Experiences from Bangladesh"
EROPA conference on Public Administration and Disaster Management, Kathmandu Nepal
Published: November 2010
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| 9. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Elevation of Health awareness among rural adolescent girls in Bangladesh: does adolescent development program of BRAC intervention matter?"
International Society for third sector research, Kadir Hash University, Istanbul-Turkey
Published: July 2010
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| 10. |
Faraha Nawaz and Dhakal, TN
"E-Governance in Nepal: Prospects & Challenges”, This paper is prepared to present in an International Conference on Governance Reforms through ICT Applications"
Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC), in Partnership with Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes for Public Administration & Governance (NAPSIPAG), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Published: March 2010
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| 11. |
Faraha Nawaz and T N Dhakal
"A Study on Human Capital in Bangladesh and Nepal, NAPSIPAG International Conference"
University of Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia
Published: December 2009
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Other
| 1. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Critical Factors of Women Entrepreneurship Development in Rural Bangladesh, Bangladesh Development Working paper Series"
Available at http://bangladeshstudies.org/files/WPS_no5.pdf (Cited 81 times)
Published: May 2009
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Seminar / Symposium / workshop attended
| 1. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Challenges of Green Entrepreneurship: Lessons and The Way forward"
Seminar held at Brunei Darussalam University, Brunei
Published: January 2020
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| 2. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Life chances of most marginalized indigenous people in Bangladesh: A case study on two ethnic communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts"
Workshop held at Brown University, USA
Published: July 2017
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| 3. |
Faraha Nawaz
"Use of e- resources accessible in Bangladesh: Let us work online,"
A workshop held in Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Published: October 2016
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| 4. |
Faraha Nawaz
"An Overview of Self Assessment Process, Workshop on Awareness Building for Self Assessment Process"
workshop held in Deans Complex, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Published: September 2016
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Dr Faraha Nawaz is an Associate Professor of the department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. She holds a PhD in school of Social and Policy Studies from the Flinders University, Australia. Dr Nawaz has also proved her excellence both in her basic and applied researches as well as in publishing. As an academic, she has devoted herself in undertaking wide-ranging research in social sciences in general and gender issues in particular, and has published articles in refereed journals, chapters in edited books, and a sole authored book to be published from Palgrave Macmillan. She is an international fellow of Brown University, USA and visiting research scholar of University of OXFORD, UK.