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Ideas galore
Ideas galore @ the 3rd Annual Social Good Summit-2012 On September 24, UNDP Bangladesh and Access to Information (A2I) Programme (housed under the Prime Minister’s Office) jointly hosted this ev... Read More
The power of maps
This post was written by Anjali Sarker, SIL intern and student from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka. Drawing the boundaries of a large area on a paper and communicating... Read More
Engaging Youth: Going Beyond Skills
In Bangladesh, close to two million young people join the workforce annually. Many of the opportunities are not that of employment in the formal sector, but rather entrepreneurship in the growing info... Read More
Lessons Learned from the Facebook Innovation Competition Winner
This spring, Daniel Ng was the winner of BRAC’s first Facebook Innovation Contest . He visited us in August to work with the Social Innovation Lab on advancing his idea. His reflections are below. Y... 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
Innovation Forum on Action Research
Say you have $100 and want to find out how to improve your program. What do you do? Munshi Sulaiman (see details below) shares some fascinating tips and experiments from BRAC Uganda. All are welcome! ... 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