Duncan Knox presents his experience as an intern supervised by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) supported by the Migrating out of Poverty programme.

1. Presentation Slideshow:
Migrating Out of Poverty Research
Programme Consortium
2013 Internship Scheme
at
Refugee and Migration Movements
Research Unit (RMMRU), Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Duncan Knox

2. RMMRU Internship work based in
Dhaka

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. Internship Fieldwork
• 3 day trip to Tangail district
• 10 day trip to Comilla district

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Attend Migrant Rights Protection Committee meeting

15. Forms of Transport I
frequently used in Bangladesh

16. Rickshaw

17. CNG ‘baby taxi’

18. Bus

19. Launch boat

20. Accommodation

21. Dhaka University, Teacher Student Centre Guesthouse
Outside view

22. Dhaka University, Teacher Student Centre Guesthouse
Inside view

23. Private shared flat on Elephant Road
View from 15 storey balcony

24. Leisure time in Dhaka

25. Visiting local markets and bazaars

26. Visiting University area

27. Days of national celebration

28. Visit cultural sites and monuments

29. Travel opportunities

30. Boat trip to City of Chandpur

31. Trip to Sundarbans (Worlds largest mangrove forest)

32. Trekking in Sundarbans

33. Trekking in Sundarbans (continued)

34. Sightseeing

35. Experience of rural life