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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 ...
Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, the world’s largest nongovernmental development organization, has died. Abed, who was undergoing treatment for a ...
Abed decided to use the funds he had generated from selling his flat to initiate an organisation to deal with the long-term task of improving the living conditions of the rural poor. He selected the remote region of Sulla in northeastern Bangladesh to start his work, and this work led to the non-governmental organisation known as BRAC in 1972. [5]
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 ...
Bangladeshi families in rural areas have been spending 12 times more each year than the foreign aid the flood-prone country receives to prepare for and cope with the effects of climate change ...
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 (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), the Bangladesh-based world's largest NGO, had its US wing mobilize resources to support the relief and rehabilitation efforts working with its two partners in Haiti. [17]
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