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Business Incubation: A Step Towards Sustainable Development
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
‘Frugal’ gets traction in Bangladesh
Kudos! We are very excited to share Ashek Bhai’s article, published in The Financial Times. Ashek Bhai works at BRAC Enterprises and Investments and was blown away by Dr. Jaideep’s session on Frug... Read More
The ugly twin of development work: considering the perils faced by field representatives
On Thursday, May 3, a group of four armed men broke into BRAC staff residence in the western province of Ghor. This incident sadly resulted in the tragic loss of the life of one of our field repres... Read More
Effective brainstorming session on investing in youth
Guest post by Umniyat Choudhury By 2020 Bangladesh’s youth population will exceed 60 million. There is a definite need for empowering this ever-increasing group, and harnessing their abilities thr... Read More
The plight of slum dwellers in urban Bangladesh
In response to the Korail eviction that took place on April 4th, 2012, on April 8, BRAC and several other organizations submitted a demand of justice notice to ensure that the government is in complia... Read More
Innovation Requires Discipline: Habits for Organizational Learning
Blog post by Maria May. This was published in the Standford Social Innovation Review on April 12, 2012. Innovation is rightly described as a creative and often collaborative process. As a result, we u... Read More
BRAC and ‘Jugaad’ Innovation
Last week’s talk on Jugaad Innovation gave us much to think about. We have two guest bloggers this week with great insights on BRAC’s institutional approach on frugal innovation. Toby Norman is o... Read More
7 things everyone at BRAC should know about impact evaluation
What impact evaluation does is provide a framework to understand whether clients are truly benefiting from a program – and not from other factors. It does this by either deliberately or naturally cr... Read More