Social Innovation Lab

February 9, 2012
Published by BRAC at Feb 09 2012
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education, general

Reflections from the Global Learning Meeting: Day 2

“This meeting is a great opportunity to see what’s really going on. In Sri Lanka, right now we only have microfinance. I had no idea what the health, education, and WASH [Water, sanitation, and hygiene] programs would be like. Reading on the website is nothing like coming here and really being able to see it.”
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February 8, 2012
Published by BRAC at Feb 08 2012
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education, general, skills

BRAC’s Global Learning Meeting on Youth: Reflections from Day 1

Two billion youth. Six hundred million unemployed. BRAC’s Executive Director, Mahabub Hossain, highlighted these sobering statistics in his opening comments to the participants of BRAC’s first Global Learning Meeting in Rajendrapur, Bangladesh. On February 7th and 8th, over 100 people gathered to focus on how BRAC could create its first global strategy for youth
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February 6, 2012
Published by BRAC at Feb 06 2012
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general

Bridging Research and Organizational Practices on Continuous Innovation

Recently BRAC was invited to a meeting convened by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Rockefeller Foundation around the question “What determines the capacity for continuous innovation in social sector organizations?”
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November 27, 2011
Published by BRAC at Nov 27 2011
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general, Staff blog

Field Trip to Noakhali: learning more about the lives of char settlers

Last week, I was part of an interdisciplinary team that traveled to Noakhali. Our task: to understand the unique challenges facing the villagers living in Bangladesh’s chars and envision how BRAC could create an integrated program tailored to their needs.
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October 23, 2011
Published by BRAC at Oct 23 2011
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general

Creative space: the BRAC Social Innovation Lab

On October 19, the BRAC Social Innovation Lab was formally launched in an informal gathering called “Social Innovation Forum.” The event focused on a theme of “How does BRAC do social innovation—past, present, and future?”
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