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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The bird flu outbreak has taken concerning turns, with more than 60 human cases confirmed. Experts outlined four signs that the virus is going in the wrong direction.
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]