What You Didn’t Know about BRAC’s Skills Development Programme!

“Bangladesh needs a more highly-skilled workforce to achieve accelerated economic growth and to reduce our dependence on skilled manpower from neighboring countries.”- Sir Fazle Hasan Abed... Read More

The Case Against Data – Part II

Amanda Misiti

Guest post by Toby Norman. The “Case Against Data: Part I” laid out the argument that a large amount of data used by NGOs is meaningless. Numeric comparisons like “benchmarks” or “trends” ... Read More

The case against data: Part I

Ishtiaque

Guest post by Toby Norman (PhD candidate in Management Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge). Managers love data. Pre-computer the constraints of crunching too many numbers may ... Read More

Business Incubation: A Step Towards Sustainable Development

sameena

The blog post I am writing today is to share the idea of business incubation and involvement of development sector in this, apparently, profit driven concept. The reason I tried to bring in this topic... Read More

Reaching Aarong’s artisans

Ishtiaque

Aarong is facing significant challenges from ‘independent producers’ – people who manufacture and supply products themselves as well as purchase products made by individual, rural women and re... Read More