How it was built

Who built it

Between December 2023 and 2026, in Bangladesh, students, volunteers and researchers built a measurement instrument, tested it on a real population, and reached 2,259 verified participants across 211 constituencies. Field measurement in Bangladesh is now carried out by CARO Bangladesh Society, an independent Bangladeshi body. No institution funded any of it.

What was built

PeriodDecember 2023 to October 2026
PeopleRoughly thirty in sustained roles; 2,259 verified participants in the wider network
Reach211 constituencies across eight divisions
Institutional fundingNone, at any point
Costs met byIndividual contribution
Most of them were students. They wrote the questions and rewrote them, ran workshops, built the platform the data was collected on, reached participants in places with no reason to trust a stranger asking about governance, checked consent, cleaned data, and kept records that could be audited afterwards.

The people

The measurement they produced is on Evidence.

Contributors

  • Md Khaled Syfullah
  • Md Arafat Bin Yousuf
  • A N M Nuruddin
  • Susmita Nandi
  • Md Amir Hossen
  • Safa Ifthisum Chowdhury
  • Md Fardin Labib
  • Somaya Amin Brishti
  • Wazada
  • Abdullah Al Hasan
  • Samia Sultana Ridi
  • Shahriya Nadim Rifat
  • Mst. Mahbuba Akter
  • Avijit
  • Raiana Tabassum
  • Arpita
  • A N M Sadiqur Rahman
  • Shakib
  • Md Meherab Hosen Molla
  • Bandhan Kumar Sarkar
  • Mumtarin Aktar Meem
  • Mohammed Mahatab Uddin
  • Sumiya Bintay Mostofa
  • Shariqul Islam
  • Riyadul Alam

Among many.

And

2,259 verified participants across 211 constituencies and eight divisions, and the 86 who gave the consented responses the pilot reports.

What it produced

Four.

  1. OUTPUT ONE

    An instrument, tested

    Twenty-five questions across five domains, with the spread of every answer published. Tested on 86 consented responses in April 2026. It produced differentiated, interpretable results rather than noise, which is the only thing a pilot can establish.

  2. OUTPUT TWO

    A first measured finding

    Overall Fairness Index 1.74 out of 5.00, every domain below 2.00. And within it, the Q18 result: the strongest agreement anywhere in the instrument concerns regional differences in education quality, which fall under a constitutional commitment that Article 8(2) makes judicially unenforceable.

  3. OUTPUT THREE

    A method anyone can now use

    Published in full — the instrument, the nine formulae and the versioning rules. Free to use, and reproducible by anyone holding the raw responses. None of it had to be negotiated with a funder, because there was no funder.

  4. OUTPUT FOUR

    An independent society that owns the work

    On 1 November 2026, members subscribed a memorandum and founded CARO Bangladesh Society — governed by its own members. It carries out field measurement in Bangladesh.