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BRAC’s Experience with Financial Diaries
By Nahid Tahrima Rashid, Microfinance Management Professional It is a common misconception that the poor lead very simple financial lives, comprised of scraping up their scant resources and a few fi... Read More
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
Mobile Money for Social Innovation
Innovation Forum: Mobile Money for Social Innovation By Tasmia Rahman What if you could get reimbursed for your 200 taka hartal transport allowances through your mobile phone without having to ... 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
Creating change makers; Getting ideas from field
“In 1973, in the earliest days of BRAC, when Sir Abed used to go to field in Sullah and Dherai, the journey was long and transport wasn’t as good as it is today. He would spend his days travelling... Read More
Social Innovation in Bihar and Orissa
By Maria A. May For the “Doing while learning” project, I visited two of our Indian practitioner partners at the end of July. First, Amanda Misiti and I spent a week in rural Orissa with Gram Vik... Read More
Breaking down the silos: Lessons from cross programme initiatives at BRAC
Integration has been the buzzword at BRAC lately. Programmes across the organization are now finding innovative ways to work together to provide holistic and “intensive” support to clients. Howeve... Read More
The Case Against Data – Part II
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