Publication

This report builds on Saferworld’s Human security in Bangladesh research (2007/08) and looks specifically at the main security providers in Bangladesh: the Police; the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB); the Army; Ansar and Village Defence Parties (Ansar & VDP); and the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), now known as the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). It looks in detail at public perceptions of each of these security sector institutions (through a comprehensive, 3,000-person household survey, undertaken in April/May 2009) and combines this with expert opinions (through key informant interviews with current and former security sector staff and nongovernmental experts conducted between April and September 2009) to develop a picture of the capacity, priorities and needs of each institution.