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A Future of Gender Inclusive Financial Services

Sajia Salam
On my second day at Social Innovation Lab, BRAC, I had the chance to attend a workshop on ‘Women and Finance’ organized by IDEO. As you may know, IDEO is a global design firm that aims to create p... Read More

Blog series: SIL Habit Experiment 2018

Masrura Oishi
Team culture isn’t organic. It’s made of you, me and us.    There are so many great things about this team, that we don’t want to lose.  And so many things we want to introduce. (... Read More

A sneak peek at the mistakes we made this Frugal Innovation Forum

Apurba Mahboob
Every year we decide that it is better not to host an international event by such a small team from Social Innovation Lab. And yet we manage to pull it off every time!   In mid-2017, when the the... Read More

Drinking Water Crisis in Tala, and the Silver Bullet!

Salman Sabbab
Summer had just started to unleash the burning May heat while the farmers waited for the harvest. Rahim came back from the paddy fields and found the water jar empty. “Ah!”, he forgot to... Read More

Innovation Forums: A Look Back at 2016!

Masrura Oishi
2016 has been very kind. We played around with the design of our Innovation Forums and saw tremendous results!  We have pieced the entire year together in this infographic below.   BRAC Social I... Read More

Youth Engagement Designs That Work

Riffat Ashrafee
“Life-skills…” “Leadership” “Sustainable development…” These are the terms Sanjida and her friends could recall from the workshop they attended in Dhaka few days back. They are very ex... Read More

So We Have Introduced Mobile Money: What now?

Masrura Oishi
Radical Social Innovations are selfishly driven by necessity. It was necessity that made BRAC graduate people out of poverty; it was necessity that made BRAC believe that the essence of millions of hu... Read More

Some Useful Hacks for A Successful Training!

Zaki Anan
Introducing an android application to a bunch of young and mid-aged woman from the rural, who have hardly seen touchscreens, that too first time as a trainer, is indeed exciting and challenging at the... Read More

The making of a CSA as bKash agent

Masrura Oishi
We met Merina the day before when we went for a photo-shoot. There is one thing you will notice about all BRAC CSAs around the country, their smile! Merina could be close to anyone with her big smile!... Read More

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