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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC. Known formerly as the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, then as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, and later as Building Resources Across Communities, [11] BRAC was initiated in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed at Shallah Upazillah in the district of Sunamganj as a large scale relief and rehabilitation project to help returning war ...
On her return to Dhaka in 1988 Nasreen Huq was recruited by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. Now known by its acronym, BRAC is one of the largest non-governmental agencies in the world with a mission to alleviate poverty and empower the poor. Nasreen Huq joined the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC and started her working life ...
BRAC (NGO) Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee; Bangladesh Red Crescent Society;
Minister for Local Government Division 19 May 2019 10 January 2024 4 years, 236 days (7A) Md Tazul Islam (born 1955) MP for Comilla-9: Minister for Rural Development and Co-operatives Division 7B Swapan Bhattacharjee (born 1952) MP for Jessore-5 (State Minister) Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (7) Md Tazul ...
Martha Alter Chen (born February 9, 1944 [1]) is an American academic, scholar and social worker, who is presently a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School [2] and senior advisor of the global research-policy-action network WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) [3] and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations University World Institute ...
BRAC University was founded to support financially disadvantaged students. One of the early donors was the BRAC Ford scholarship program. The university has developed several scholarship programs for national and international students. The Open Society Foundation and the Open Society University Network have supported student activities and ...
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Even the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (now just BRAC) came out of this simple concept. [35] Under Dr. Khan's guidance he established the Daudzai Pilot Project of the Integrated Rural Development Programme in 1972 on the pattern of Comilla Project. [36]