Operationalising the Capability Approach for Healthy Child Growth via a Participatory Method: An Illustrative Case in Haor Areas of Bangladesh

Figures & data

Figure 1. Capability Framework to Child Growth by Yousefzadeh et al. [2019]. Adapted by permission from Springer Nature: Springer Nature, Child Indicators Research, Copyright (2018).

Figure 2. Map of childhood stunting (<5 years of age) in Bangladesh (reprinted from BBS 2019).

Figure 3. Process of contexualising the list if capabilities in participation with the communities.

Figure 4. Example of drawings used in facilitating the participatory research. The first drawing was used to explain a mother’s capability to stay away from violence (drawn by Debashis Chakravorty). The rest two were demonstrated to explain a child’s capability to stay happy and playful (the second artwork of the child was sourced from: https://iycf.advancingnutrition.org/content/people-healthy-baby-6-24-mo-00a-noncountry-specific and the third drawing of the child was drawn by Debashis Chakravorty).

Figure 5. Drawing for explaining a child’s capability to grow in size.

Table 1. Process of exhaustion and non-reduction.

Children	Mothers	Fathers	Household
Being able to stay away from disease and eat well	Being able to stay healthy and eat well	Being able to earn in all seasons and provide the family with the things they need	Being able to live in a shelter that is safe during the wet season
Being able to be born with God’s blessings and the hereditary traits needed to grow in size	Being able to stay away from domestic violence	Being able to save the future and the one who creates the future	Being able to overcome struggles with the earth and to keep the children neat and clean
Being able to stay happy and playful and have regular naps or sleeps	Being able to allocate time for child care as desired	Being able to support the childrenexpress maya and mohabbat to the children by bringing them toys or items they need	Being able to be mobile in different seasons
Being able to express through crying, saying new words or imitated words from others such as parents and siblings	Being able to be engaged in income-generating activities	Being able to be educated in order to get a job, educate the children, control anger, and have fewer children	Being able to secure a source of safe drinking water for the family for drinking and for showering, mainly in the dry season
	Being able to express love (maya-mohabbat) and take care of the children	Being able to remain in good health, have energy, demonstrate intelligence, and be religious and stay free from tensions
	Being able to be educated in order to take responsibility for oneself and to provide the children with good care	Being able to share child care activities with the mother after returning from work
	Being able to avoid heavy work during pregnancy
	Being able to have a normal delivery
	Being able to space child births

Yousefzadeh, Sepideh, Mario Biggeri, Caterina Arciprete, and Hinke Haisma. 2019. “A Capability Approach to Child Growth.” Child Indicators Research 12 (2): 711–731. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-018-9548-1.

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