Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Narayan C. Das, PhD, James W. Khakshi, Farah Muneer, Md. Kamruzzaman, Md. Ashikur Rahman, Tahasin Tasnim Mohce
Topic(s): Economic Development, Skills and Jobs, BRAC Programs
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Faruq Hossain, James W. Khakshi, Noriya Mahin Chowdhury
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Cities, Monitoring and Evaluation
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Farah Muneer, Noriya Mahin Chowdhury, Md. Mahbub Ul Hassan Sharan
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Monitoring and Evaluation
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): James W. Khakshi, Farah Muneer, Noriya Mahin Chowdhury, Munshi Sulaiman, PhD
Topic(s): Monitoring and Evaluation, Gender and Social Development, BRAC Programs
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Munshi Sulaiman, PhD, Sheikh Arman Tamim
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Gender and Social Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Munshi Sulaiman, PhD, Atiya Rahman, PhD, Sheikh Arman Tamim
Topic(s): Care Economy, BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Gender and Social Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Atiya Rahman, PhD, Marjan Hossain
Topic(s): Care Economy, BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Gender and Social Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Proloy Barua, PhD, Md. Karimul Islam, Md. Shakil Ahmed, Narayan C. Das, PhD
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Climate Change, Economic Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Marzuk A. N. Hossain, Shaila Ahmed, PhD, Munshi Sulaiman, PhD
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Gender and Social Development
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Md. Mohsin Hossain, Rohini Kamal, PhD, Md. Mahbub Ul Hassan Sharan
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Climate Change, COVID-19
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2025
Author(s): Mohce, Tahasin Tasnim; Gomes, Mohima; Rahman, Md. Ashikur; and Kamruzzaman, Md
Topic(s): BRAC Programs
Publisher: BMC Medicine
Date: 2025
Author(s): Chen, Shanquan; Banks, Lena Morgon; Carew, Mark T.; Kipchumba, Elijah; Davey, Calum; Sulaiman, Munshi; Kuper, Hannah
Topic(s): BRAC Programs
Date: 2025
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Education
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2024
Author(s): Barua, Proloy; Islam, Md. Karimul; Ahmed, Md. Shakil; and Das, Narayan Chandra
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2024
Author(s): BIGD
Topic(s): BRAC Programs
Publisher: Development in Practice
Date: 2024
Author(s): Khan, Tahsina Naz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita; Das, Narayan; Hossain, Marzuk A.N.; Rahman, Atiya; Tabassum, Asma
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Skills and Jobs, Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2023
Author(s): BIGD
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Social Transformation, Ultra-Poor Graduation
BRAC IED’s Creative Club offers adolescents a safe, joyful space to express creativity, build resilience, nurture well-being, and grow into confident, environmentally conscious individuals through play and community connection.
BIGD conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on BRAC’s pilot initiative, titled Progressing the Retail Sector by Improving Decent Employment (PRIDE). Based on the study, an article titled “The Effects of Job Training on Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh”—authored by Afsana Adiba, Md. Shakil Ahmed, Narayan Das, Md. Karimul Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder, and Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee—was published in the Journal of Development Studies. This blog summarizes the key insights from the article.
Women empowerment has always been foundational to BRAC’s development approach. The strategies to this end, however, have evolved over time. On the occasion of BRAC’s golden jubilee, Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan, and Nobonita Chowdhury critically analyze the causes and implications of this evolution in their article, “Quiet revolution? Women’s collective empowerment and BRAC,” published in the BRAC 50 special issue of the journal Development in Practice. This blog summarizes the key insights from the article.
In Korail slum, working mothers like Nasima rely on home-based childcare for economic survival. Yet, our research reveals these facilities lack safety and developmental support for children. BRAC’s initiative aims to transform them into quality centers, empowering caregivers and advocating for national policies that prioritize childcare as a fundamental right for both children and working mothers.
The Manikganj Integrated Project (MIP) was an ambitious initiative aimed at empowering rural women in Bangladesh by providing them with the necessary skills to generate income. Through activities such as pickle making, poultry rearing, and collective agriculture, BRAC aimed to create self-supporting groups of women. Despite facing significant social and technical challenges, BRAC’s dedication to building a sub-sector that worked for rural women was the driving force behind their success.
BRAC had three major experiences of working with the poorest groups, including those in Sulla, Jamalpur, and Rawmari. The focus of the organisation then turned sharply towards the life condition and upliftment of the most disadvantaged groups, including poor women. Consciousness raising and organising marginalised women into groups was a vital part of BRAC’s strategy for initiating developmental and economic processes.
‘অ্যাকশন বাংলাদেশ’-এর মূল উদ্দেশ্য ছিল মুক্তিযুদ্ধের স্বপক্ষে জনমত গঠন করা। এ-জন্য প্রথমেই তারা ২৫ মার্চ রাতে পাকিস্তানিদের বর্বর ও নৃশংস হত্যাকাণ্ডের ঘটনা পৃথিবীকে জানানোর প্রয়োজনীয়তা উপলব্ধি করেন। তারা মনে করেন, বিশ্ববাসী যদি প্রকৃত ঘটনা উপলব্ধি করতে না পারে তাহলে জনমত গঠন করার কাজটি দূরহ হবে। এছাড়া সাহায্য-সহযোগিতাও পাওয়া যাবে না। এ কারণে শুরুতেই তারা ‘লন্ডন টাইমস’ পত্রিকায় বেশ বড় একটি বিজ্ঞাপন দেন। যেখানে জানানো হয়, ‘বাংলাদেশে গণহত্যা চলছে। এই হত্যাকাণ্ড বন্ধ করার জন্য ব্রিটিশ সরকার ও জাতিসংঘের উদ্যোগ নেওয়া প্রয়োজন।’
মুক্তিযুদ্ধ যখন শুরু হয় স্যার ফজলে হাসান আবেদ তখন ৩৫ বছরের টগবগে এক তরুণ— শেল অয়েল কোম্পানির হেড অব ফাইন্যান্স হিসেবে কাজ করছেন চট্টগ্রামে। কোম্পানি থেকে তাঁকে লিয়াজোঁ অফিসারের দায়িত্ব দেওয়া হলে মে মাসের প্রথমদিকে তিনি লন্ডনে চলে যাওয়ার সিদ্ধান্ত নেন। লন্ডনে স্যার আবেদ ও তাঁর বন্ধু ও সহকর্মীরা মিলে ‘হেল্প বাংলাদেশ’ এবং ‘অ্যাকশন বাংলাদেশ’ প্রতিষ্ঠার মাধ্যমে মুক্তিযুদ্ধে ভূমিকা রাখেন। ‘অ্যাকশন বাংলাদেশ’-এর মাধ্যমে তাঁরা পাকিস্তানি সেনাবাহিনী কর্তৃক বাংলাদেশে চলমান গণহত্যার বিষয়টি আন্তর্জার্তিক মিডিয়ায় তুলে ধরেন। এবং পশ্চিমা দেশগুলোতে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের স্বপক্ষে জনমত গঠন করেন। অন্যদিকে ‘হেল্প বাংলাদেশ’-এর মাধ্যমে মুক্তিযোদ্ধাদের জন্য তহবিল সংগ্রহ করা হয়।
I joined some research work, visiting families prior to the interventions, and listened as women described what they had to eat in their home. How rice with a little garlic or chilli was their main meal, and the cooking water with a little rice in it would do for breakfast.
One of my earliest encounters with extreme poverty was through BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation (UPG) program. Although I grew up in a village myself and was accustomed to poverty, UPG made me realize what it really means to be extremely poor.
9:00 am BRAC Centre
On June 17, BIGD and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) co-hosted a knowledge-sharing session titled "Enhancing Livelihoods for Youth with Disabilities: Evidence from the STAR+ Programme Impact Evaluation." The...
3:00 pm BRAC Centre Inn Conference Room (1st Floor)
BIGD organized a roundtable discussion "Development as Discovery: Learning from the Life and Work of Abed Bhai" at the BRAC Centre, Dhaka on Sunday, January 8, 2023. Scott MacMillan, author of the biographical book on Abed bhai, 'Hope...
6:00 am BRAC Centre Inn Auditorium
BRAC’s 50 years of work focusing on the economic and social empowerment of people living in poverty has helped us to build a new approach to southern development. In this roundtable session organized by the Development Studies...
2:00 pm BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
Dr Shahaduz Zaman, Lead Researcher of the Historicizing BRAC Project, delivered a speech on the formative years of BRAC in a talk organized by BIGD to commemorate the organization's founder, Fazle Hasan Abed, on his second death...
Date: 20 July 2023
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development
Publisher: Dhaka Tribune
Date: 20 July 2023
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development
Date: 19 March 2023
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Ultra-Poor Graduation
Date: 17 October 2022
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Skills and Jobs
Publisher: The Financial Express
Date: 5 January 2022
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Skills and Jobs
Publisher: The Daily Star
Date: 15 February 2021
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, COVID-19, Economic Development
Publisher: The Business Standard
Date: 21 November 2020
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Skills and Jobs
Publisher: The Daily Star
Date: 16 October 2020
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation
