BRAC, an organisation committed to helping people lift themselves from extreme poverty through our Graduation approach, is swiftly adapting to address the increasing vulnerability of the ultra-poor and ensure their basic needs are met.
Client protection is key, both in supporting people through financial shocks and by sharing reliable, life-saving information.
The Covid-19 is still raging. Save Wuhan which is returning to normal, much of the remaining world is struggling. The epicentre is shifting – Wuhan to Europe to New York. Which is next?
Covid-19 has shut down much of the world.
But for many of us, we are working even harder than before.
Panic and pandemic are in the air. Cough etiquette and social distancing are the new buzzwords.
Ahead of this week’s selection panel of ‘Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Ashoka Young Changemakers’ we’d like to take a moment to share about the deep roots of Sir Fazle and BRAC’s long-standing relation with Ashoka.
Combatting the dynamics of climate change requires synergistic effort. At BRAC, we are ensuring that climate-resilient approaches are mainstreamed into all our development interventions.
Global humanitarian crises – and the aid systems that respond to them – are undergoing massive change. More people are in crisis than ever before.
Bangladesh is the eighth worst affected country in the world in terms of natural disasters. Between 2008 and 2017, approximately 37 million people were affected.
What are your first thoughts when you hear “public toilet”? Dirty, smelly might be some of the words that come to mind. However, inaccessibility is a feature that we are less likely to think of. For people living with disability, this might be the only feature without which they cannot access something as basic as a public toilet.
Inclusion is not intuitive. Often organisations and people with the best intentions are limited in the know-how on being inclusive.