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Shafqat Aurin

Aurin is the lead for behavioural design at the Social Innovation Lab (SIL), BRAC. She has experience collaborating with different BRAC programmes, and conducting research, experiments and projects across various fields, from reducing gender-based violence in public transport, to scoping for livelihood opportunities in wetlands, to improving hygiene behaviour across contexts. She holds MBA and BBA degrees from IBA, University of Dhaka, and is currently pursuing a Master in Public Policy from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

June 8, 2021
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Jun 08 2021
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crisis, health

Equipping households for better hygiene: What BRAC is learning

Can increasing access to portable handwashing devices and soap in people’s homes lead to improved hand hygiene? Here is what we found out.
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May 11, 2021
Published by Shafqat Aurin at May 11 2021
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crisis, health

Is COVID-19 over(rated)?: 4 ways BRAC is helping people to continue safe hygiene practices

In a time when COVID-19 infection rate is on the rise in Bangladesh, what approaches could work to enable people to adopt safe hygiene practices? Here’s what we’ve learnt.
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October 19, 2020
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Oct 19 2020
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education, equality, health

Stepping up hand hygiene: How to make hand hygiene more accessible and inclusive

Can installing handwashing stations in public places help people adopt the habit of washing hands with soap? Here are our key findings.
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January 19, 2020
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Jan 19 2020
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skills

Tackling a process innovation challenge 101

How did BRAC optimise its financial data management process from seven working days to 24 hours?
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December 5, 2019
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Dec 05 2019
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equality

End gender-based violence: Integrated approaches from around the world

The problem of gender-based violence cannot be solved overnight, but it can be resolved, eventually. Meaningful collaborations around the world are playing strong roles in their communities to see a more equitable world
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February 11, 2019
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Feb 11 2019
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education, equality, financial inclusion

How 3 Dhaka companies became market leaders

In a city of 20 million people, startups rise and fall every day. But what does it take for a startup to thrive?
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July 3, 2018
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Jul 03 2018
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equality

The inside out of Shohochor: Challenging Dhaka traffic the BRAC way

Our hypothesis was that if organisations encouraged car-sharing among employees, vehicles on the streets would reduce. The challenge was articulating it into something feasible for testing.
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January 30, 2018
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Jan 30 2018
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skills

Try first, fail fast and other lean lessons

Remember when Segway launched in 2002? It was predicted to revolutionise transportation and hit the $1 billion sales mark faster than any company in history. But by 2010 it had sold less than 30,000 units and was termed as one of the 10 biggest tech failures of the decade.
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October 19, 2017
Published by Shafqat Aurin at Oct 19 2017
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education

Five ways we can futureproof education in Bangladesh

A total of 47 Bangladeshi development organisations, edupreneurs, social innovators and accelerator programmes joined BRAC's social innovation lab for an intense 90-minute sprint, this September. We brainstormed on how our education system can work for our future, and how we can solve  the existing roadblocks.
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