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Increasing BRAC’s value creation at the secondary school level in Bangladesh
Guest post by Manik Kumar Saha and Iffat Khan (Young Professionals, Batch 4) Thanks to the gains made over the past 40 years in primary education, secondary school is increasingly an urgent area of pr... Read More
Heads Up for Concept Maps
Here is a hypothetical scenario: An issue arises on a project. A couple of meetings take place to discuss the outcome, and the positions are laid out. Resolution doesn’t occur and tempers may flair.... Read More
@ BRAC’s young blood: chance to win UN-HABITAT’s grant and lead a project of your own!
Are you a BRAC staff person aged below 32 years? Is your organization working on innovative and sustainable projects that will improve urban-slum communities and the lives of young people? The answer ... Read More
Innovation in progress: creating access to internal information
Thanks to Rudaba apa for alerting us to an innovation in progress in the Post-primary basic and continuing education (PACE) project of the BRAC Education Programme. In discussions with staff, it wa... Read More
District BRAC Representatives: A management innovation in progress
Back in 1995, the senior-most BRAC personnel informally acted as local representatives of BRAC activities in addition to their other job responsibilities. They became known as BRAC Local Representativ... Read More
Guess who’s thinking about innovation
“Throughout my careers in software and philanthropy—and in each of my annual letters—a recurring theme has been that innovation is the key to improving the world. When innovators work on urg... Read More
Organizational capacity for continuous innovation: reflections from a brainstorming session
Last week I attended a meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation’s office in New York convened in partnership with the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. The topic: “organizational ... Read More
e-learning- A step to embrace technology, a change within “the system”
Few days back we had an e-learning session!! It was very exciting and completely a new experience for me. Program staff like Rudaba Apa from PACE along with her colleague Wahid bhai joined the Social ... Read More