Understanding the Livelihoods Situation of Ethnic Minority Women in the Hills of Bangladesh, Pressures and Prospects for Change

Bangladesh is considered as the largest delta in the world. Almost 90% area of this country is a low-lying flat plain alluvial deposit of river and the rest 10% is comprised of low and middle-high hills spreading over three districts. Bangladesh is overwhelmingly a rural and a very thickly populated country. Though the hill districts are not as thickly populated as the plains, yet poverty has been predominantly prevailing in the hills making the women more destitute there. It was difficult to implement development programmes in the hill districts during the past days of political umest.