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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 ...
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 ...
BRAC (NGO) Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee; Bangladesh Red Crescent Society;
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 ...
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 ...
Rural Development and Co-operatives Division developed the One House One Farm Project (Ektee Bari Ektee Khamar Project) in 2009 to increase rural employment and development. The budget for the project was 11 billion taka with an aim to target 578 thousand farms and 2.9 million people.
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 ...
Examples include the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) encompass a broader range of non-profit entities like community-based organizations, advocacy groups, trade unions, and social movements.