The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute for Governance and Development (BIGD) conducted a national level rapid response survey on low-income people to assess the impact of COVID-19 in Bangladesh.
The survey was undertaken incorporating low income people - families depending on the informal sector, especially in the urban areas, including rickshaw pullers, day labourers, housemaids, restaurant workers, vendors and auto drivers.
The survey also included workers in the rural areas, farmers, fishermen, agricultural labourers, small business owners and returning migrants who have no means to earn a living now are suffering the same fate.
Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) launched the joint large-scale telephonic rapid response research project on April 1 to understand the immediate economic impact of the crisis on such families. The survey concluded on Sunday. A cross-sectional sample of around 6,000 households in both rural and urban Bangladesh were reached out of a total of 12,000. The research is intended to support better design and targeting of emergency support programmes for the vulnerable population.
Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, Executive Chairman, PPRC, and Dr Imran Matin, Executive Director, BIGD, will unveil the findings through a virtual press conference on 16th April details of which will be separately shared later.
