Baseline study of Madrassa Project

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Baseline study of Madrassa Project

• Principal Researcher -
• Saikh Imtiaz, Lecturer, Department of women and
  Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Statistical analyst-
• Md Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee, Lecturer,
  Institute of Health Economics
• University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Research Associate-
• Md Jakir Hossain, Independent Researcher
  Project Officer
• Department of Women and Gender Studies,
  University of Dhaka

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Broad objective

• To understand the link among gender ideologies,
  Islamic beliefs and existing knowledge attitude
  behavior and practices of Madrasa people
  regarding sexual and reproductive health and
  rights issues.

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Specific objectives

• To understand madrassas as Islamic Context in
  relation to the over all social change in the
  larger society
• To explore existing knowledge and practices of
  madrassa students on sexual and reproductive
  health issues from Islamic perspectives
• To identify exiting source of knowledge among
  madrassa students on reproductive and sexual
  health.
• To investigate madrassa gate keepers perceptions
  regarding young peoples sexual and reproductive
  health and rights
• To asses the attributes of masculinities and
  femininities among madrassa students in relation
  to Islamic beliefs as practiced in the madrassas
• To assess the link between gender ideologies and
  existing practices regarding sexual and
  reproductive health with contextual (i.e.
  Alia and Qaumi madrasa) variations

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The central research question is-

• How are Islamic beliefs and practices related
  with gender ideologies, existing knowledge
  attitude behavior and practices regarding sexual
  and reproductive health and rights issues in Alia
  and

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Following sub questions will generate answer for
the central question

• How can the madrassas be read in relation to the
  larger social change in the society for a sight
  of development intervention?
• What are the meaning of existing knowledge and
  practices of madrassa students on sexual and
  reproductive health issues from Islamic
  perspectives?
• What are the exiting sources of knowledge among
  madrassa students on reproductive and sexual
  health? How far these sources can satisfy the
  need of the young people as addressed by the
  project intervention?
• What are the madrassa gate keepers perceptions
  regarding young peoples sexual and reproductive
  health and rights? How such perceptions can
  influence the project interventions?
• How are the attributes of masculinities and
  femininities among madrassa students related to
  Islamic beliefs and practices?
• Why and how do the link between gender ideologies
  and existing practices regarding sexual and
  reproductive health vary between Alia and
  Qaumi madrasa ?

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• Findings of the Qualitative Study

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• a) Madrassas are usually considered as holly
  places thus introducing sexual and reproductive
  health issues in the Madrassa context might be
  difficult. Nonetheless, Quami Madrassa are still
  more authoritarian in terms of access than the
  Alia Madrassas
• b) Madrassa as Islamic contexts have continuously
  been undergoing changes. This change is reflected
  in the world view of the young students as well
  as the teachers irrespective of the Madrassa
  system. However, still a good number of teachers
  in the studied Madrassa are apprehensive about
  the implementation of the project activities.
• c) Students are more interested about the project
  and they have more exposure to the outside non
  Islamic world and in terms of this exposure it
  can be easily inferred that they have more
  similarities with the students of the general
  education system irrespective of the Madrassa
  systems.

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• d) There exists the possibility of backlash if
  the project activities are not situated with in
  the local context in terms of what it means by
  an Islamic way of discussing about sexuality or
  Sariah approved way. However, there exists
  difference of opinion among Madrassa teachers
  about this. In most cases it seems that this
  means to discuss the issues maintaining the
  gender dichotomy and using examples as many as
  possible from Quran and Hadith.
• e) In most cases the students have never got any
  exposure to the modern scientific knowledge
  regarding sexual and reproductive health, and
  there wasnt any project interventions in any of
  the Madrassas except the Bogra Zora Madrassa.

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• Most of the students irrespective of Madrassa
  system and sex dont have clear idea about their
  body and functions of different organs.
• Misunderstanding regarding the body functioning
  place some young boys in vulnerable condition for
  sexual abuse.
• Most of the students believe following the
  guidance in Fikah Sastra would help them to
  remain safe from any diseases including HIV/AIDS.
  However, some of them report that sometime
  because of the Saitanik influence they fail to
  follow these rules though they dont have any
  idea about how the HIV/AIDS spreads and how to
  remain safe from this.

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• Almost all of them know nothing about STDs,
  their symptoms and ways to be safe from them.
• Female students seem to have ambivalent idea
  about their physical and mental well being. Many
  of them believe early marriage means getting
  married before puberty. They dont have any idea
  about the possible danger and complicacys
  regarding early marriage and pregnancy

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• It seems that most of the young men and women in
  Madrassa context have developed a world view that
  makes them to think about sexual problems as
  equated with pollution and thus to avoid it. The
  need to be freed from such mental status.
• In most cases the only source for the male
  students treatment for any kind of sexual and
  reproductive health problems are the traditional
  healers

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• Findings of Quantitative Study

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Gem Scale
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Domestic Work

• 15 percent difference exists

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Baby Caring
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Accidental pregnancy
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Decision at home should be based on Male members
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Men are Always Ready to Have Sex
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Women are repressed due to their own Cause
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