This partnership is strengthening the Women’s Studies Department at Dhaka University (DU) by developing courses, increasing the skills of students and faculty through collaborative research projects, and improving the research agenda. The partnership’s long-term objective is to improve the condition of women in Bangladesh by strengthening DU’s institutional capacities for research and analysis on topics relevant to women’s issues and by enabling DU to become more responsive to the needs of those working in sustainable development to improve the condition of women in Bangladesh. The partners are developing syllabi, readings, and other materials for online courses on women and the environment, women and demography, gender and globalization, gender and development, and transnational Muslim women. They have made progress on a gender atlas of Bangladesh and on research projects on transnational feminism and reproductive health. A partnership web site was created in fall 2003.