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BRAC prepares for Cyclone Mahasen
16 May 2013, Dhaka. Photo copyright: BRAC/Ferdous Uddin Ahmad.As Bangladesh braces itself for cyclone Mahasen hitting its coastal areas today, a combined effort by different BRAC programmes, including Disaster, Environment & Climate Change (DECC), is mobilising precautions. The coast between Chittagong and Cox's Bazar currently hoists a danger level of 7, on a scale of 1 to 11. Standard operation procedures (SOP), established by DECC, are being followed to maximise the efficiency and resources ......Read More

Sir Fazle in China for global forum on culture in sustainable development
15 May 2013, Dhaka. BRAC's chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed addressed The International Congress "Culture: Key to Sustainable Development" which is being held in Hangzhou, China, from May 15 to May 17. "Culture is not just theatre and arts and crafts; it's also about how we deal with the challenges of life and in doing so shape our world view," explained Sir Fazle to members of the global community and major international stakeholders on the first day of the conference. He spoke in a plenary hi......Read More

BRAC announces leadership changes
12 May 2013, Dhaka. BRAC has announced changes to its senior level management. A circular was sent out on the 7 May, 2013. Faruque Ahmed, Senior Director, BRAC International has been promoted to the position of Executive Director, BRAC International. In addition to all country representatives, BRAC Internatinal's chief financial officer and the director of internal audit will be reporting to Mr Ahmed. Executive Director, BRAC and Vice Chairperson, BRAC governing body will provide support and g......Read More

BRAC’s executive director, Dr. Mahabub Hossain selected one of the 500 most powerful people in the world
02 May 2013, Dhaka. Dr. Mahabub Hossain, executive director of BRAC, has been selected as one of the 500 most powerful people in the world by Foreign Policy - a global magazine of politics and economics. Dr Hossain is the only one chosen from Bangladesh to have claimed a position in this very prestigious power map. The Foreign Policy adheres to a 'list of lists' approach by which they consult various distinguished and globally influential sources like Fortune Global 500, Forbes World's Most Po......Read More

BRAC family gets together in Uganda to design effective programmes for youth
Held on 29 and 30 April, BRAC's Global Learning Meeting continued the work that began in Bangladesh in 2012, creating a network and platform to share knowledge and strategies for effective adolescent and youth development programming.BRAC is the world's largest implementer of the "girl effect" which is the unique potential of 600 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world. Our programmes have led to a rich reserve of knowledge and experience, and this meeting enabled sh......Read More

BRAC’s response to the Savar tragedy
28 April 2013, Dhaka. In order to help the victims of Savar tragedy, BRAC has initiated a host of emergency support activities through multiple medical and psychosocial counseling teams. BRAC aims to continue their efforts until the end of the rescue operation, and then initiate post-trauma rehabilitation activities. Following the incident, BRAC's health nutrition and population programme (HNPP) sent three medical teams to Savar, Dhaka Orthopedic Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DM......Read More

BRAC launches LEAD project in Tanzania
27 April 2013, Dhaka. On 23 April 2013, BRAC successfully launched the livelihood enhancement through agricultural development (LEAD) project in Tanzania. This four-year long project is a collaborative initiative of UK government and BRAC which will be implemented in 18 regions in Tanzania. The project seeks to increase rural income, build capacity of smallholder farmers, and improve agriculture productivity and food security. The project consists of two main components -agriculture (maize) and......Read More

BRAC wins IFTDO Global Award 2013
27 April 2013, Dhaka. On 25 April, 2013, BRAC was honoured with the 'Certificate of Merit' Award at the 42ndInternational Federation of Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) World Conference. BRAC received this prestigious award from the Honorable President of Republic of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, India, in the category of 'Improving Quality of Working Life'. The conference was held during 23 - 27April, 2013 at the Ashok Hotel, New Delhi, India. BRAC's learning divisi......Read More

BRAC will open 330 Community Girls’ schools in South Sudan
23 April 2013, Dhaka. BRAC held a launching ceremony for opening 330 community girls school in south Sudan on April 12, 2013. BRAC Education Programme in South Sudan has taken up this as a challenge considering the barriers in education in South Sudan which includes poverty, inability to pay school fees, lack of female teachers, long distance of schools etc. There are over 1.4 million children out of school and in the next five years BRAC will target 100,000 of them. A total of 9900 children fr......Read More

Symposium held on integrated services for urban slums
21 April 2013, Dhaka. BRAC and Averting Maternal Death and Disability programme of Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, co-hosted a two-day symposium on "URBAN SPACE: INTEGRATED ACTION ON HEALTH, RIGHTS AND POVERTY REDUCTION" in April 19-20, 2013 at the BRAC Centre Auditorium in Dhaka. With an objective to improve health programmes particularly in the urban slums, the symposium brought together a group of actors working on rights, development and service delivery issues for sl......Read More