Author: maria
World Bank asks,what’s so great about Social Innovation Labs?
The World Bank runs an online platform called “Striking Poverty” that features discussions on topics that relate to development and poverty reduction. Past topics have included open data... Read More
Exciting changes @ the Social Innovation Lab
Earlier this fall, we received the good news that the Gates Foundation will provide support for the BRAC innovation fund for digital financial services. This initiative will enable the organization ... Read More
From research to action
This post was written by Toby Norman, SIL intern and visiting researcher from Cambridge University What would your program do with $100? This very real question was addressed by Dr. Munshi Sulaiman, R... Read More
Change is everywhere: rural perspectives on urbanization
(cross-posted on the BRAC blog) “I want both my daughter and son to get a job as soon as they’re done with their studies…it may be in Rangpur, it may be in Dhaka…it doesn’t matter….but the... Read More
Want to create innovations that work? Get out and listen.
Last week I visited a few families that have taken microfinance loans from BRAC in Sri Lanka. One woman had used a loan to start a business making black tamarind paste, an essential ingredient of ma... Read More
What we’re reading this week
There are an incredible number of thoughtful and exciting initiatives taking place around the world. Here are a few we read about this week that are particularly interesting: Development as freedom.... Read More
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
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