In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
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02.03.22
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Afrina Choudhury is a senior gender specialist and research fellow at WorldFish as well as a doctoral candidate at Wageningen School of Social Sciences. Her research work centers on improving gender relations within the livelihoods of aquaculture-dependent communities in rural Bangladesh. The main focus of her research work is to promote the application of Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs), a WorldFish-pioneered innovation, that challenges gender norms, promotes positions of social and political influence for women and addresses power inequities between men and women in Bangladesh.
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