“Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently.” – James Surowiecki BRAC has partnered up with bKash, a subsidiary of BRAC Bank, to...Read More
What does it feel like to be poor? To be guilty of fate? To be settling with the guilt everyday and living one day at a time? These are questions that we often come across while going through our text...Read More
Noorbanu was thrilled to use the mobile phone for the first time. She was newly married and her husband lived far away from the family for his job. He got her a mobile phone through which she could st...Read More
“Innovation is about courageous experimentation— testing new approaches, tapping into unconventional sources for insight and inspiration. Experiments often fail; a part of the process. When succ...Read More
The past decade has marked several reforms to the current education system of Bangladesh. There exists mixed reviews about what we could have done, but there is no debate about the fact that we have c...Read More
By Grace P Sengupta In 2014, we were really impressed seeing the success stories of our Nearly Cashless Branch project run by the integrated development programme. This project strove to shift from ca...Read More
By Grace P Sengupta This year, BRAC Integrated Development Programme (IDP) is scaling up the Nearly Cashless Branch through Innovation Fund. The project team organized a two day training on mob...Read More
By Tausif Ahmed Qurashi There are 5.2 million hectares of floodplain areas in the Indo-Gangetic river basin of which 2.8 million hectares are located in Bangladesh. During monsoon, about one-third of ...Read More
Have you ever imagined how it would feel like if you did not have to go to school in monsoon? Or, how would it feel like if you don’t have to go to school at all to receive education? Instead of you...Read More