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How to Make Your Internship at BRAC a Success
By Jessica Meckler Internships. Lauded as vital work experience for students struggling to ensure post-graduation employability, the months of unpaid work are seen as an investment. And don’t... Read More
How can we ensure psycho-social support for all?
By Anjali Sarker 24 April 2013 was a day that Bangladesh would never forget. The collapse of Rana Plaza took lives of more than a thousand RMG workers, making it the worst man-made disaster in the cou... Read More
Hope Shines Bright in the Golden Land
By Samantha Power I recently spent a week and a half in Myanmar learning about the work of the BRAC team there and the needs of the people they are working for. With national reform underway, foreign ... Read More
Making the most out of data through mapping
By Manik Kumar Saha Ian Smilie said in Freedom from Want, we are “information rich, knowledge poor. In Bangladesh, BRAC’s activities take place in approximately 4,300 fixed structures around the c... Read More
How to organize a productive, crisis free conference call
By The BRAC Social Innovation Lab Imagine you’re in a conference room with Asif bhai or, some other director/senior director for a conference call with Bill Gate... Read More
Invisible women: making the hard realities visible
By Anjali Sarker “How can we work without food?” “I worked for two years for my employer and I’ve only received one year’s salary.” “My employer removed all of my clothes... Read More
The World of Development Blogs: From Serious to Irreverent, Practitioners Speak Up
By Jessica Meckler With the variety of blogs available online, it should come with little surprise that development blogs are plentiful. While this might seem a bit like homework at first – more rea... Read More
Why Consider “Information Design”?
By Inara S. Tareque There is no point in collecting or presenting data, if the target audience cannot comprehend them. Often times, it is not only very difficult to ascertain useful information from d... Read More