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

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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

Open lecture titled “Jugaad Innovation: How to create more with less” by Professor Jaideep Prabhu from the University of Cambridge

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The Social Innovation Lab is pleased to announce that Professor Jaideep Prabhu from the University of Cambridge will offer an open lecture at BRAC on Tuesday, April 3 from 2:30-3:30PM in Meeting Room... Read More

Investing in Youth and Financing Dreams

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Guest post by Umniyat Choudhury As a SIL intern researching the demand for youth-centric finance, I visited an ADP (Adolescent Development Programme) beauty skills training class to hear what the ... Read More

Increasing BRAC’s value creation at the secondary school level in Bangladesh

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Guest post by Manik Kumar Saha and Iffat Khan (Young Professionals, Batch 4) Thanks to the gains made over the past 40 years in primary education, secondary school is increasingly an urgent area of pr... Read More

Innovation in progress: creating access to internal information

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Thanks to Rudaba apa for alerting us to an innovation in progress in the Post-primary basic and continuing education (PACE) project of the BRAC Education Programme. In discussions with staff, it wa... Read More

Organizational capacity for continuous innovation: reflections from a brainstorming session

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Last week I attended a meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation’s office in New York convened in partnership with the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. The topic: “organizational ... Read More

Is honesty the best policy?

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Recently I came across an article in Harvard Business Review about the importance of creating a “culture of candor” at any business or organization. “Candor” essentially mean... Read More

Planting the seeds of innovation

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On the BRAC blog, you can see “2011 in review” to get a quick sense of how much was accomplished last year! It’s worth five minutes to appreciate the incredible breadth and depth t... Read More

Evaluate early, evaluate often

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Guest post by Toby Norman (PhD candidate in Management Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge). Toby spent last week in Dhaka exploring opportunities to do his dissertation rese... Read More