Looking beyond Traditional Sources of Funds: The case for Impact Investment into BRAC’s programmes and enterprises

Impact Investing is a topic of emerging interest in the development space in Bangladesh, as the country moves towards becoming a middle income country and traditional sources of funds (e.g. donor gran... Read More

The One Habit that Transformed an Organisation: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Masrura Oishi

Book Review: The Power of Habit “I want to talk to you about worker safety” What CEO in the world starts his very first speech right on point? Unlike any other CEO in the history of the co... Read More

ইনোভেশন আড্ডা যখন বরিশালে…

Masrura Oishi

সোশ্যাল ইনোভেশন ল্যাব বছরে ৪ টি ইনোভেশন আড্ডা করে। এই আড্ডার উদ্দেশ্য খুব স�... Read More

Youth Engagement Designs That Work

Riffat Ashrafee

“Life-skills…” “Leadership” “Sustainable development…” These are the terms Sanjida and her friends could recall from the workshop they attended in Dhaka few days back. They are very ex... Read More

Our Cities, Our Solutions!

Masrura Oishi

5 ‘Urban Innovations’ to watch out for from Bangladesh! Our everyday thoughts are biased towards multiple narratives; that whisper the tales of why our lives are as they are. One very str... Read More

So We Have Introduced Mobile Money: What now?

Masrura Oishi

Radical Social Innovations are selfishly driven by necessity. It was necessity that made BRAC graduate people out of poverty; it was necessity that made BRAC believe that the essence of millions of hu... Read More

‘Must Reads’ on Social Innovation for November!

Masrura Oishi

What did the world do in the name of ‘Social Innovation’ this month? Read the highlights from the awesome recent features in just 10 minutes! 1. The making of a CSA Agent Social Innovations d... Read More

The making of a CSA as bKash agent

Masrura Oishi

We met Merina the day before when we went for a photo-shoot. There is one thing you will notice about all BRAC CSAs around the country, their smile! Merina could be close to anyone with her big smile!... Read More

Leadership Course by Social Innovation Lab: What did we learn about bottom-up innovation?

Salman Sabbab and Masrura Oishi

Whether organic or choreographed, innovation cannot be imposed and needs to begin from the bottom! It is undoubtedly important to create a conducive space for innovation at workplaces to position inn... Read More

Residents of Bangladesh’s wetlands are using floating toilets to end open defecation

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This article was originally posted on The Third Pole and cross-posted in scroll.in Recently Bangladesh became the second South Asian country after Sri Lanka to effectively end open-air def... Read More