. Note Sir Fazle Abed was selected as WISE's inaugural laureate of education, and this led WISE networks to a year's search/report for job creating education models.. BRAC's schools today are the educational network Gandhi and Montessori would recognise as closest to their vocational vision for village schooling. Sir Fazle Abed notes that in BRAC's early days, his search for training suitable for illiterate adults led him to Paulo Freire's action learning approach. This mindest is critical for an education culture where teachers unlearn over-standardised theory This breakthrough of educational mindset made it natural that BRAC would evolve a montessori type model once it needed a solution that could replicated as a 40000 village schooling network,
How did this development happen to be trusted to BRAC? When Bangladesh was born, the government didn't have enough resources -let alone relationships with teachers - to do schools in villages. So BRAC prioritised introduced bottom-up primary schooling - the third of its first 3 villagers grassroots networking services- which started with bottom-up disaster relief and scaling of bottom-up para-health workers (see oral rehydration microfranchise 100).
BRAC is not only the biggest but also most collab ngo see fazleabed.com -search how WISE dedicated a whole year of benchmarking brac's idea of elarning a living in its efforts to lauch the laureates of education…
Added by chris macrae at 11:34am on September 6, 2014
earning nuggets replicating khan academy type platform (as Dr Yunus prayed for at 2013 skoll ) what is the 42 year pro-youth economics storyline they need to benchmark first of how bottom up networking ends poverty
I suggest these 10 interconnecting ideas from BRAC's brillian trials and tribulations are worth knowing about- by all means add in other practice areas- eg when it comes to micro-up energy nancy wimmer knows exactly how grameen scaled; sarah butler-sloss and prince charles celebrate microenergy solutions so joyfully that they have even changed the BBC's and Royal Geographic Society and British Consumer editorial policy on climate and energy; ted turners daughter is tasked with ensuring that if nothing else the billion dollars te turners have spent on the un foundation connect clean sustainable solutions
10 Dynamics To Benchmark around BRAC - the world's most purposeful ...
No network of partners has ever empowered more people to end community poverty more successfully than BRAC - what are top 10 magic moments…? We'd vote for these 10- how about you?
1 bottom-up disaster relief designed out of epicentre of 500000 killer cyclone by Chartered Accountant of the Shell Multinational and Glaswegian graduate of civil engineering
2 disciple of experiential learning education -of paulo freire and of village vocational schooling of Montessori-Gandhi (sir fazle also connects Freire with Popper's open society curriculum in exactly opposite ways to the mindset Jeffrey Sachs was taught by Harvard to impose -Bolivia,, Poland, Russia, Millennium Villages - see biography of The Idealist)
3 healthcare para-networkers first 10000 barefoot professional network to scale thanks to need to collaborate around oral rehydration to save fifth of infants lives (thereby also reducing need for mothers to breed 9 children) to see where this led to browse special 2013 issue of The Lancet on Bangladesh's most economical healthcare in the world -note this is the opposite way round system design to UN networkers spreading cholera across Haiti -
4 consciously go sector by rural market sector and redesign the whole value chain to sustain poorest, linkedin worldwide triad with japan's nippon institute and JIca and alumn of Borlaug
5 From the getgo BRAC published microentrepreneur research - lessons of what failed as well as what worked It debriefed all its funding partners continuously -microfanchise small (efficient and effective open model) then scale large.
6 The biographer of Steve Jobs claims his value multiplying genius involved converging multiple market sectors that had been separately strategised before the age of connectivity. Actually both BRAC and Grameen linkedin grassroots connectivity before technology was ready to multiply life critical knowhow. Both design bottom up financial service circles of village mothers round fusion of at least 4 sectors:
bottom-up value chain design
education
increasing health before taking out a loan to maximise personal and communal productivity
financial services
People who fail to help youth map the synergies between the way BRAC and Grameen scaled do endless harm to the every curriculum : microbanking, microeducation, microhealth, microvalue chains.
For example Grameen''s 16 decision culture of every centre of 60 villagers famously committed every village mother to sending children to primary school. But the schools across rural bangladesh only existed because of what BRAC scaled. Ultimately by the mid 1990s the grassroots "social networking" structures of both Grameen and BRAC involved hundreds of thousands of village circles communally regenerating village sustainability around maximum of 60 mothers per circle.
7 Both Grameen and BRAC had made the barefoot village banker the most trusted adviser -ensuring at least weekly visits to every village circle. What was being embedded was the most life critical social networking infrastructure. While it was Grameen that first mobilised the telecommunications connectivity of this - BRAC's personal advisers by early 1990 for every villager had added para-legal advisers - in other words BRAC was more deeply advanced into protecting the property rights of villagers (cf the argument of De Soto)
8 Sir Fazle Abed trained in Glasgow as an architect before he became a chartered accountant, wheras Yunus trained as a macroeconomist out of van Der Bilt during first year of racial integration. Sir Fazle liked to map on paper before digitalising. So BRAC was definitely slower in testing mobile connectivity as integral to the global village networking age. However this had an advantage. When microeditsummit started in 1997 it failed to query the future-now tipping points between:
manual and digital trust networks of banking
manual and digital connections of education infrastructures
bottom up value chain design.
While BRAC and Grameen had both scaled enough to attract investment in going digital many of the microcredit manual replicates in other countries were not in such a position to leverage/empower grassroots networking scale. This is the most fundamental problem impacting the The vast majority of microcredit models to lose their way during the race to 2015 millennium goals. While DR Yunus challenged the world of globalising business to partner in mobilising practical village lab tests, BRAC focused first on integrating hi-trust banking at every level a developing nation needs:
9 Grameen had from the mid 1980s celebrated dialogue roundtables about three tiemns a year where people who wanted to try and replicate grameen in their own countries could come and action learn. Partly because the BRAC model is so much more interdependent with developing a nation's education - it did not see how to become a multinational knowhow connector until lessons were learned around the world from the first exponentially increasing decade (19996-2005) connection of the internet linking in every human being (citizen or villager). BRAC's international development since mid 2000s has been with the most trusted partners -search both its global connectors and its local cultural connections with muslims for good.
10 As the 2010s scale open education, the opportunity is to celebrate all the most collaborative curricula of bottom up development noting the correlation between the social movements of end poverty and twining youth job creation out of every capital with a future. It is to be hoped that the most open education platforms such as khan academy find ways to source microfranchise module content both from BRAC and Grameen. If these 3 Bangladeshi-cultured networks can win-win-win they can help worldwide youth change every broken system that became to top-down during tv advertising's age.…
Added by chris macrae at 7:46am on February 14, 2014
it then goes on to list all the most unsustainable advertising markets (addictive, sex-crazed. big-brother controlled, violent video gamed., female disrespecting.. greenwashed)
have a look at the brand that is 100 times more valuable than apple because it celebrate youths open education and borderless friendships in hard work directed towards sustaining all families
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7 3 leaps 72, 99, 08? Banking system – mit and legatum dubai
Mobile apps – mit and legatum (and soros)
6 Bottom-up spiral systems- End poverty & Sustainability investment
– POP now faith-led pope francis
- health and 4-hemisphere youth exchanges-led by kim and farmer,
supported by open society of soros and peace summits of gorbachev)
5 Health – Farmer, Kim
4 Disaster relief and refugee sustainability- bottom up aid
3 Education alumni freire, montessori, WISE, BRACUNI , girl empowering
2 Food –rice crops science for poorest; milk, poultry - vegetables (rice not enough vitamins otherwise perfect local scale and diversity modifiable crop )
1 Leads national markets conscious purpose designed round jobs for poorest while delivering social value of market's customers
Next searches
– energy/green china cos otherwise bangladesh will be drowned as first 100+million nation victim of climate
- Can BRAC keynotes on open system mapping help youth to collaboratively edit 17 sustainability goal online action learning curricula
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I’ve been delving into yellowed, typewritten 1970s archive reports in Dhaka to find out about failure.
Failing, after all, is fashionable these days. Silicon’s Valley’s “fail fast, fail often” philosophy is summed up by authors Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz in a story about a ceramics teacher who divides his students into two groups. He tells one group he’ll grade them purely on the quality of their single best work. He tells the other they’ll be graded simply by how many pounds of pots they make. In the end, the group graded by quantity alone ended up making better pots.
It may have generated plenty of backlash, with critics saying it’s just a trendy excuse for wasting investors’ money, but failure is powerful and important idea when done right. In development, where success is measured in indicators such as literacy, under-five deaths and maternal mortality, understanding how to fail well or “fail forward” is even more important.
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Despite the vogue for failure, it’s not often that nonprofits admit to it. For one thing, people are not clay pots. We need to be careful about blithely celebrating failure when their lives and wellbeing are at stake, especially when it results from programmes that were poorly designed to begin with.
The students at the pottery wheels learned to do better through practice. It wasn’t the failure that got them their As. It was the iteration.
And Brac likewise, began with a succession of proverbial clay pots. In the Sulla project, named for a group of villages in a remote north-eastern region Bangladesh where Brac began in 1972, the young organisation constructed village centres where people could take free literacy and numeracy lessons in the evening. The goal was the complete removal of adult illiteracy in the intervention area within three years.
It was a dismal failure. In a 1976 report to donors, the frankness is jarring. Brac wrote that its field personnel were “too concerned with attaining construction targets without giving adequate attention to the objectives of the programme”. Sites were selected “without due regard to the convenience of the majority of the villagers”. As a result, at least a third of the structures fell into disrepair. “Despite the fact that this programme accounted for a substantial part of the Brac effort, the achievement of the programme was not commensurate with the effort.”
It gets worse. About 5,000 villagers signed up, but after 18 months, only 5% were still attending. Literacy and numeracy on their own “held no immediate benefit for the learners”. Classes were discontinued.
I asked Brac’s founder and chairperson, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, where the idea for these community centres had originated. “The idea came from me,” he said. “I wanted to have some place in the village where people could congregate under one roof.”
And indeed that was the problem: the idea came from Brac, not the villagers. “After a hard days’ work who wants to go to a community centre to read and write? Something that will never come to any use for them,” Abed added.
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Brac conducted a survey to identify villagers’ actual concerns. It then reintroduced classes with a new curriculum that taught them things that mattered to their lives. This included animal husbandry, health, nutrition and childcare. The completion rate rose to 41%. After a further revision that reintegrated basic literacy and numeracy, it rose to 54%. Building on the ideas of Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire, the idea was to create a “critical consciousness” that people could change their own lives.
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It worked. Eventually, the classes were so popular that parents asked why they weren’t providing something similar to their children; this led Brac to launch its primary and pre-primary schools in 1985. This is now the world’s largest private, secular school system, with 10 million graduates who would not otherwise have had a chance to attend school. Programme organisers regularly visit the classrooms and test children on performance. Monthly refresher trainings for teachers are mandatory.
The early failure in the Sulla project shaped much of Brac’s later growth. Programmes that go to scale require multiple feedback loops, often overlapping.
To give another example, Brac trains more than 100,000 community health promoters in seven countries. These are self-employed women making money from the sale of vital health goods and services in their own communities. Though not on staff, they have no less than five points of contact with Brac supervisors every month. As with teachers, this also includes mandatory refresher trainings so that poor performance is identified and immediately addressed.
The point isn’t to fail, but to catch points of failure – and there will be many – within a complex system.
Scott MacMillan is a writer and manager for communications and outreach for Brac USA. Follow @WanderingSavage on Twitter.
This article was corrected on 2 April 2015. It originally misidentified Paulo Freire as Peruvian, when he was in fact Brazilian.
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t Leath, faculty, student, ladies and gentleman,
Each year the World Food Prize Laureate delivers the Borlaug Lecture here at Iowa State University, principally on the subject agricultural science and its potential to advance human progress. Not being an agricultural scientist myself, I have worked most of my life not primarily on science but chiefly on the empowerment of human beings to defeat poverty and hunger. I trust the agricultural community will not be disappointed by this presentation.
Almost 45 years ago, in December 1970, Norman Borlaug delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm. The Green Revolution was still in its infancy, yet it had already delivered spectacular increases in cereal crop yields in India, West Pakistan and the Philippines; and, as Borlaug rightly pointed out, for the millions who had long lived with daily hunger and were now fed by its bountiful harvests, the transformation of the Green Revolution must have seemed like a miracle.
At the time, the Green Revolution had still barely touched my native Bangladesh, then called East Pakistan. I was 34 years old in late 1970, living a comfortable life as a senior executive at Shell Oil, and going through a transformation of my own. A terrible cyclone had struck the coast of Bangladesh, killing hundreds of thousands of mainly poor people. The cyclone made me question the value my comfortable corporate life in the face of such death and devastation.
Within a year, another cataclysm struck -- a war for independence in which 10 million people left the country, most of them on foot, fleeing the Pakistan Army's attacks on the civilian population. Our independence struggle, aided by India, was short lived. By the end of 1971, an independent Bangladesh was born.
Tonight, 44 years later, I am able to look back at a life dedicated to eradicating poverty, hunger, illiteracy and exploitation. I would like to share some of the things I have learned on this journey, particularly about the relationship between hunger, poverty and powerlessness.
We knew the process of rebuilding Bangladesh would be immense. It was one of the poorest countries on earth when we achieved our independence: Life expectancy at birth was a mere 46 years, and one in four children died before their fifth birthday. Our main crop was rice, but only 10 per cent of cultivated land was irrigated, and we produced less than 11 million metric tonnes per year, against a need of about 14 million to feed our people.
The land was overcrowded, and population growth was out of control. The average woman bore more than six children. To give you a sense of the population density of Bangladesh, consider that our land area is almost exactly the same as the state of Iowa's; yet our population in 1971 was 70 million, about 22 times that of Iowa, and today we are 50 times the population of Iowa.
In 1972, I started a relief effort in a remote area in the northeast of the country called Shalla to help returning refugees from the war. Their homes and means of livelihood had been completely destroyed, and the vast majority of them lacked the resources to rebuild their lives in any meaningful way.
My personal transformation was now complete. While I valued the skills I had acquired working in the private sector, after confronting the conditions of poverty found in Shalla, I knew there was no way I could return to a comfortable corporate life. I resolved to commit the rest of my life to helping the poor extricate themselves from poverty. The organization now known as BRAC was born.
Today, thanks in large part to the empowerment of women, Bangladesh has seen one of the most dramatic declines in fertility rates ever seen, from an average of 6.4 children per woman to just 2.1. Changes in other basic indicators of quality of life, including life expectancy, child mortality and maternal mortality, have been equally dramatic.
The road here wasn't easy. We worked hard to address the causes, not merely the symptoms, of Bangladesh's widespread and deeply entrenched poverty and hunger. I understood that simple relief work, such as replacing destroyed homes and distributing food and medicine, would do little to solve the underlying problems. So we turned to the long-term development of human potential -- not limiting ourselves to one area, such as health, education, agriculture, or livelihoods, but working in all these sectors, applying a holistic set of solutions and evaluating the results along the way.
We were eager to be as effective as possible and learn from our mistakes. We introduced cooperative agricultural schemes, literacy programs, health care and family planning, credit support for landless farmers, and much more besides. I could see that, just as poverty does not have one simple cause, it could not have one easy solution.
For a country in chaos, the work of Norman Borlaug, M.S. Swaminathan and others making advances in food science, together with the news of what had been accomplished by the farmers in India, were a message of hope.
It gave us confidence that, if we worked hard and brought these technologies and methods to our farmers in Shalla, they would see similar gains. When I wrote our first major funding proposal for Oxfam, I was naive enough to think that we could triple rice yields and completely eliminate adult illiteracy within our intervention area within five years.
In fact, we failed in many of our first efforts. As I look back on our initial optimism, I am struck by how much we have learned.
After working in Shalla for some time, I began to see a more deep-rooted problem of powerlessness among the poor -- a lack of agency, a lack of control over even the smallest aspects of their lives. Eventually, in our efforts to empower them, we entered into a series of dialogues with the villagers. We began an adult education program based on group discussions, employing the teaching methodologies of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire.
Like Norman Borlaug, Freire was a visionary who inspired me greatly. For him, lifting people out of poverty, hunger and oppression was part of the process of "humanisation," as he wrote in his seminal work "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." According to Freire, humanisation is thwarted by injustice, exploitation, oppression, and violence; it is affirmed by the yearning of the oppressed for freedom and justice. This book was first published in English in 1970 so, like the Green Revolution, his ideas were fresh at the time. I believe they are as important today as they were then.
When we began, I was convinced -- as I remain convinced today -- that, to achieve real empowerment, people need to be aware of their situation and develop a sense of self-worth in order to change it.
During our literacy classes, the teachers acted as facilitators of discussions which explored the true meanings of words as perceived through the life experiences of the learners themselves. This was a learning process for us as well as the students. We developed 100 lessons, each based on a key word, and discussions focused on these words.
One of the first words in our curriculum was "hunger," or upash in the Bengali language. People in the villages were very familiar with this word and concept, and the discussions became quite animated. Anyone who has ever felt pangs of hunger would have a visceral sense of what hunger is, but those who had suffered from chronic hunger had a deeper perspective. They said that being hungry was like being in prison, locked away in a cage, isolated from others, and unable to communicate with anyone else, except for others who were also hungry and in a similar state of powerlessness.
Breaking free from that cage, we learned, was not as easy as we had initially hoped. Farmers' habits were deeply ingrained and would not change overnight. The vast majority of the crops were rain-fed, and bringing irrigation to the fields through tube-wells would prove to be a tremendous hurdle. It would take a long time, many years, for new methods of agriculture to catch on. In fact, we are still bringing the Green Revolution to parts of Bangladesh and now Africa.
One of the problems we encountered was that local power structures in rural areas were exploitative, cruel and corrupt, with moneylenders, landlords and local elites often taking advantage of the landless poor in collusion with the local police and government officials. As a result, although they worked hard to survive, the work of the poorest gained little traction in terms of improving their living conditions.
I began to see the difficulty of breaking down the fatalism that held sway in rural areas. If hunger is a cage, and poverty is powerlessness, it was in part because landless people were locked out of these local power structures. They were constantly in debt to moneylenders, earning the lowest of pay for manual labour. Women in particular, often married off at the age of 13 to one of those landless labourers, bore the brunt of oppression.
Although many of our initial efforts fell short, we found our dialogue sessions were successful in building people's self-worth and solidarity. We wanted to empower the poor, to equip them with the tools they needed to break free from these constraints. One of these tools was the confidence and self-esteem to know that their actions really mattered. If we could create the conditions for people to improve their lives through their own agency and action, and they could see meaningful progress, I knew they would do the hard work of ending poverty themselves.
We began thinking about what we could do to create those conditions. We introduced group-based microcredit without collateral, allowing people to borrow and invest in new seeds, fertilizer, and farming technologies without the high rates charged by moneylenders. We introduced homestead vegetable gardens, financed by micro-loans, to add nutrients to people's diets. Later, we began introducing entirely new crops, such as maize, which was linked to a poultry industry centered on female farmers. We built value chains for other industries, such as dairy, to benefit women who owned milk cows.
Today, I am pleased to say that Bangladesh has achieved self-sufficiency in food production. Though our population has gone up 2.2 times since independence, our food production has gone up 3.1 times. This has happened through widespread irrigation during the dry seasons, the introduction of improved varieties, more effective usage of fertilizer, and other changes to farming practices. This process continues and we have seen many of these interventions, adapted to local contexts, having profound impacts on hunger and food security in other parts of Asia and in Africa.
But the underlying causes of hunger cannot be addressed through food security alone. Without clean water, basic healthcare, family planning services, and quality education for children, families remain trapped in the cycle of poverty.
I saw that we would never bring down the fertility rate without bringing down the high mortality of children in our society. The problem was not merely that family planning services were unavailable, although that was part of it. The Government, to its credit, actually began offering free family planning services, but few were accessing them. In our own intervention areas, we succeeded in raising contraceptive usage rates from single digits to about 20 per cent in the late 1970s. But we seemed to hit a ceiling there.
After listening to rural women’s concerns, I learned why. Many were actively choosing to have more children because they had so little confidence these children would actually live to adulthood. As I mentioned, at the time of independence, one in four Bangladeshi children didn't even make it to their 5th birthday, one of the highest rates of child mortality in the world. The toll in grief and human suffering was incalculable and, moreover, it was keeping generation after generation locked in a cycle of misery.
At the start of the 1980s, we launched a ten-year effort to teach mothers -- 13 million in all -- how to administer oral rehydration fluid to children with deadly diarrhea, one of the biggest killers of children. Many people, including trusted friends and colleagues, were skeptical that a relatively little known NGO, which had not even begun to work at a national level until then, would be able to reach so many people and catalyse such widespread behavioral change. But this program helped to reduce the rate of child deaths from diarrhea by 80 per cent. Together with the government, we also established a national immunisation program that took the country from 4 per cent immunisation coverage in 1986 to 72 per cent in 1990.
As a result, people gained confidence that their children would survive and accepted the benefits of having smaller families. Meanwhile, we began training village women to serve as community health workers, providing health products and services (including contraception) to their neighbors. We now have more than 100,000 community health promoters providing these services.
I believe this empowering combination of children's, maternal and reproductive health services, delivered on a local level at a massive scale, helped catalyse one of the steepest declines in fertility rates the world has ever seen.
With the child mortality rate falling dramatically, so many more children would now survive into adulthood. People rightly began to ask: Why are we teaching literacy to adults only? If we are interested in long-term development, wouldn't it be better to start with children? The Government's own schools were out of the reach of many poor families due mainly to cost and distance and, in any case, provided a poor-quality education to the few that could afford it.
Starting in the mid-1980s, we began training housewives, many of whom had only high school level education themselves, to work as schoolteachers in their own villages. In one-room schools, with majority girls in the classroom, we targeted exclusively the children from the poorest families. Many have compared these schools to the prairie schools of the American frontier, and indeed we were, in a sense, on a frontier of our own, working in villages not yet reached by the government school system.
For these village schools and teachers, we applied the same principle of empowerment and scale used in our health and family planning programs, that is, empowering people on a local level to take care of their own needs. An entire generation -- more than 11 million children -- have now come through BRAC schools. Remarkably, perhaps because of the value we place on encouraging critical thinking as opposed to rote learning, multiple studies have shown that these children perform better in standardized tests than children from more privileged backgrounds.
To be sure, none of these things caught on like wildfire. As I mentioned, it took many years, decades in some cases, to see the true impact of our work. But, for individuals, the knowledge of being in charge of their own destiny was like a light being turned on -- the light of hope.
In his Nobel speech, Norman Borlaug spoke of the historical precariousness of man's existence. Throughout most of history, humans have lived an uncertain existence, never secure in the knowledge that we would have enough to eat. He also suggested that perhaps the term "Green Revolution" was still "too premature, too optimistic, or too broad in scope." The temporary success of the Green Revolution had only given humankind a "breathing space" to solve more deep-rooted problems like overpopulation, he said.
I believe we are still within that breathing space created by the Green Revolution, and its true potential has yet to emerge. We have a great set of challenges before us. The problem of hunger still looms, for instance. It has been said that, to feed the world, we will need to produce more food in the next 40 years than we have in the last 10,000. This may sound daunting, but I am confident that, even with the challenge of ongoing climate change added to the equation, we can do it provided a new generation of Norman Borlaugs emerges.
Defeating hunger does not depend only on the science of food production. It requires us to address the problem of powerlessness among the poor -- of putting an end to that feeling, articulated so many decades ago by the villagers in Bangladesh, and still felt by so many millions today, of being locked in a cage.
As Amartya Sen has written, poverty cannot be reduced to a single factor, such as insufficient income or the lack of healthy meals. It is, at heart, a deprivation on one's capacity to be fully human -- to be able to lead a life that one has good reason to find meaningful or valuable.
I believe that the true promise of the Green Revolution means breaking free from hunger and fatalism, and that it is part of the ongoing process of becoming fully human -- making people shapers of their own destiny, able to build their futures instead of holding out their hands in supplication, and to lead lives filled with meaning and purpose, transforming the world around them.
Thank you."
- Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG
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Added by chris macrae at 6:18am on September 1, 2021
world's first bottom-up NGO led by an exponential chartered accountant
2 Has always seen end poverty as about empowering bottom -up education and breaking generations of village illiteracy-
adopted the action learning ideology of Paulo Freire
with the world's least resourced government unable to offer primary schooling in rural areas, BRAC convinced the world to fund village primary schools (Montessori Type); it designed these schools to be an order of magnitude more efficient than state schools in big cities; it franchised both curriculum and teacher behaviours in ways that celebrated joy of learning; the world's most efficient end illiteracy curriculum (both for parents and children) became its first sustainable business model
3 BRAC's biggest fastest scaling up of a knowhow networking franchise was connected around oral rehydration- the tens of thousand trainers of village mothers it connected acriss rural bangladesh stayed on as para-health workers- their sustainabie business models retailing the most basic pills and health advice - BRAC has always been searching for 10 times more frugal healthcare and community services see lancet special issue on brac ; see its frugal summit series
4 BRAC was the first to consciously go sector by rural market sector and redesign the whole value chain to sustain poorest, smallest (farming) businesses but in high quality ways - see its world class innovations in bottom-up crop science, poultry, beef and diary. In crop science knowhow it formed a triad with Nippon Institute in Japan and Borlaug alumn. Its only in the 2010s that the transparency of bottom up value chain modeling has come to either USAID or the World Bank. The problem being that in the 1980s Harvard professors published value chain theory around top-down externalisation models- their ideology was programeed into spreadsheeting numbers. In this they embedded the least community sustaining algorithms worldwide - compare this with value exchange models that the economist Kenneth Boulding had urged American secondary school teachers to make fundamental to systems literacy in the 1960s.
5 From the start BRAC published microentrepreneur research - lessons of what failed as well as what worked It debriefed all its funding partners continuously -microfanchise small (efficient and effective open model) then scale large. It developed a culture of offensive, open and entrepreneurial bottom-up aid celebrating very way that this is opposite from how failed systems emerge when:
aid is defensive not publishing mistakes at earliest possible time to learn, and administered around top--down adminsitration
6 The biographer of Steve Jobs claims his genius involved connecting multiple market sectors that had been separately strategised before the age of connectivity. Actually both BRAC and Grameen linkedin grassroots connectivity before technology was ready to multiply life critical knowhow. Both design bottom up financial service circles of village mothers round fusion of at least 4 sectors:
bottom-up value chain design
education
increasing health before taking out a loan to maximise personal and communal productivity
financial services
People who fail to map the synergies between the way BRAC and Grameen scaled do endless harm to the every curriculum : microbanking, microeducation, microhealth, microvalue chains.
For example Grameen''s 16 decision culture of every centre of 60 villagers famously committed every village mother to sending children to primary school. But the schools across rural bangladesh only existed because of what BRAC scaled. Ultimately by the mid 1990s the grassroots "social networking" structures of both Grameen and BRAC involved hundreds of thousands of village circles communally regenerating village sustainability around maximum of 60 mothers per circle
7 Both Grameen and BRAC had made the barefoot village banker the most trusted adviser -ensuring at least weekly visits to every village circle. What was being embedded was the most life critical social networking infrastructure. While it was Grameen that first mobilised the telecommunications connectivity of this - BRAC's personal advisers by early 1990 for every villager had added para-legal advisers - in other words BRAC was more deeply advanced into protecting the property rights of villagers (cf the argument of De Soto)
8 Sir Fazle Abed trained in Glasgow as an architect before he became a chartered accountant. he liked to map on paper before digitalising. So BRAC was definitely slower in testing mobile connectivity as integral to the global village networking age. However this had an advantage. When microeditsummit started in 1997 it failed to query the tipping point between:
manual and digital trust networks of banking
manual and digital connections of education infrastructures
bottom up value chain design.
While BRAC and Grameen had both scaled enough to attract investment in going digital many of the microcredit manual replicates in other countries were not in such a position to leverage/empower grassroots networking scale. This is the most fundamental problem impacting the The vast majority of microcredit models to lose their way during the race to 2015 millennium goals. While DR Yunus challenged the world of globalising business to partner inmobilising practical village lab tests, BRAC focused first on integrating hi-trust banking at every level a developing nation needs:
the rural microcredit banks (phase 1 manual)
the rural microcredit banks (in a digital age)
the connection between hi-trust urban banking for poorest and rural banking for poorest
the connection of cashless e-banking
the connection of an association of global banks with values around the world
9 Grameen had from the mid 1980s celebrated dialogue roundtables aboyt three tiemns a year where people who wanted to try and replicate grameen in their own countries could come and action learn. Partly because the BRAC model is so much more interdependent with developing a nation's education - it did not see how to become a multinational knowhow connector until lessons were learned around the world from the first exponentially increasing decade (19996-2005) connection of the internet linking in every human being (citizen or villager). BRAC's international development since mid 2000s has been with the most trusted partners -search both its global connectors and its local cultural connections with muslims for good.
10 As the 2010s scale open education, the opportunity is to celebrate all the most collaborative curricula of bottom up development noting the correlation between the social movements of end poverty and twining youth job creation out of every capital with a future. It is to be hoped that the most open education platforms such as khan academy find ways to source microfranchise module content both from BRAC and Grameen. If these 3 Bangladeshi-cultured networks can win-win-win they can help worldwide youth change every broken system that became to top-down during tv advertising's age.
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es and impacting livelihoods that end poverty for families totaling over 100 million people. Since 1972 BRAC's win-win-win models have emerged to integrate the world's most purposeful organisation of partnerships that friends of The Economist's Entrepreneurial Revolution can value if they want to help the net generation race towards humanity's most life critical goals
Its subsystems knowhow -including microfranchises, open value chains integrating bottom-up livelihoods, job creating models of banking, partners with youth's open tech wizards - offers the simplest curricula to understand how pro-youth economic maps have made millennium goal achievements by Bangladesh second to none, in ways that worthy of open replication wherever communities are racing to end poverty.
..... Sir Fazle Abed founder of BRAC : poor people, especially women, can be organised for power, and that with right set of organisational tools, they can become actors in history. This, to me, is the meaning of an open society – a society where everyone has the freedom to realise their full potential and human rights
Budapest June 2013 receiving Open Society Prize from George Soros .
10 Characteristics of DNA of Bottom UP NGO AS Most Purpose Sustaining Network in World
1 Enjoy the most local and extreme trusted relationships with those whose need is at the epicenre of your unique reason for existence. For example if you pursue the integenerational goal of eradicating extreme poverty out of every community then your co-workers need to be locally there in the very poorest communities. Compare this with a worthy international aid program which has to spend part of the funds identifying and earning the trust of the extreme poorest in each far away nation . And whose ability to contribute to intergenerational development is constrained by how look it is guaranteed to be there.
2 Establish a deepest basis for being the local collaboration partner of international choice. BRAC was born out of one the most disastrous situations ever experienced. About half a million people and infracstucture were wiped out by a local cyclone in 1972. Even famous global relief agencies could'nt get to the region without BRAC's help - so it was born a bottom-up relief agency. But BRAC also seized the opportunity to evolve from relief to development - compare this with some global relief agencies whose fund raising remits actually forbids them to contribute beyond immediacy of "the relief" stage
3 When you partber with international aid, be transparent in achievement of their specified goals but maximise local empowerment of local people in doing this and tranfer of knowhow. BRAC goes further and demonstrtaes through hi-trust research the win-win between the global good intent and the local empowermemt. This is one of the values of its own research division www.bracresearch.net BRAC's founder Sir Fazle Abed discovered that the Brazilian Paulo Freire offered breakthrough processes in empowering the poorest to take charge. When BRAC started literacy and empowerment programs (including up to 100 modules based on Friere) were core in helping refugees who had started the 1970s by losing everything including confidence in self either in the war of independence or in natural disaster.
4 Also part of the research process in developing goal-solutions is the expectation that there will need to be several small scale trials to design effectiveness; then you work on the second e of efficiency; and then the 3rd e of expansion (scaling). This triple-e order of new product development is a basic truism in markets of the commercial world but its sad wgerever these innovation execution basics are not understood in parts of the NGO world.
5 Learning about the entrepreneurial revolution of microfranchise solutions is simplest if you study BRAC's cases first. Map how these suppport win-win clusters around key micro-up knowhow and networking structures. Characteristocs 6 and 7 review whether a microfranchise cluster is interdependent with a job creating village banking structure (sometimes called BRAC's microfinance plus plus)
6 What BRAC designs into its microfinance models (that cumulatively serve over 8 milion village members in Bangaldesh) is a local group formed typically around 45 village mothers . At each week's meeting circle, their local savings and credit needs are served by a brac vilage bank manager. Moreover the group's composition has been chosen so that to start up there is a balance of trades within the group - ie not excess supply of one need and lack of another. However through time BRAC analyses how to help different producers with productivity/quality that can extend the market beyond the group. With almost every kind of common crop and farm anima.l BRAC R&D has innovated output by sevral fold. Once BRAC knows how to empower villagers do this, it also takes charge of the whole sectors value chain so that the vilage producesr get a good market price for their sales beyond the group. In other words as long as brac microentrepreneur is a hard worker, the market risk is minimised by the way BRAC designs value chains integrating the smallest or poorest producers. This is all part of the bank's role in sustaining jobs and peoples and community devlopment through time
7 Example of brac that isnt directly connected to micrifinance are its schools now totaling over 40000 in Bangaldesh. This nation's constitution claims every child has a right to free primary education. But this did not mean that the new nation of Bangladesh in 1970s could afford this in all rural areas either in terms of the government providing the service or the families sending (especially girls) to school. BRAC's schools are a case of designing the most effective and efficient one room rural schools - helping government fill a gap it didnt have resources or locally skilled teachers to fill, in combination with international aid partners who care about child development as a basic human right
8 When opportunities come along to add to sustainability of a program (especially those still aid dependent for funding) brac is quite happy to invest in owning businesses whose profits are ploughed back into the overall BRAC NGO trust. An early examples was publishing school textbooks.
9 When technology changes ,its absolutely vital that a bootom-up NGO gets out there in the sectir to retain leadership of the value chain for pro-poor integration. So as information technology came to rural banglades,h BRAC opened up a nationwide banking system. This left its village banks largely unchanged , but helped BRAC sustain its value chain leadership or markets whose contonuing purpose it wanted designed round inclusion of the poorest. Today BRAC is also the benchmark for the global banks with values network - ie banks that care about investing in their customers productivity never in trapping them in debt
10 If you searching through BRAC partners, today they embrace almost any sector that could be relevant to eradicating poverty and they linkin the world's best open technology wizards from MIT and elsewhere. This also put BRAC in a good position to be the most collaborative force in open education by empowerng the net generation to achieve the most human goals that coilaboration technology empowering worldwide youth can design and loccally link in.
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khan academy organises peer to peer competitions of health training
summary of maharishi uni.doc, 556 KB - summary of the most exciting entrepreneur curriculum in 43 years since my father at The Economist encouraged coming net generation to search for open education' "Entrepreneurial Revolution" -please tell us if you know of other job creating curricula
We (elders and youth of the net generation) could now be valuing a wholly different planet
if top 11 who's Free Education who knew how to collaborate with each other -job creation dairy- job creation maps from world bank 2030nowjimkim2transcripts.doc, 40 KB
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since 1972 alumni of The Economist's Entrepreneurial Revolution have become convinced that education entrepreneurs models benefit most from collaboration and that open education is the key to the door of the net generation being 10 times more (or if we mess it up in next decade less ) productive and exponentially sustainable
we hope our guided tour of these 11 helps you help youth celebrate the above conclusion - of course we are delighted to hear of nominations of other education collaboration entrepreneurs -rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but note our 11 are also chosen to complement each other
for example: Sal Khan's online academy demonstrates the most economic way to viralise any action learning that millions of youth could most gain from action networking, while
Sir Fazle Abed has spent the last 43 years developing the ngo network that can claim all of these accolades:
biggest in terms of co-workers having served north of 100 million poorest mothers and children in Bangladesh and in the last decade or so replicating the model to many of the most seriously oppressed peoples on the planet
most collaborative
most educational driven in the action learning and job creating sense
the most value multiplying in terms of human livelihoods
consequently the curriculum of BRAC is worth more than any other curriculum that isnt yet available
BRAC is a curriculum replicator unlike any the real world 1 2 has ever seen. It now operates close to 50000 educational facilities -many no larger than a one room village school. Its metric has been to end generations of illiteracy among 15 million parents and 60 million children in rural Bangladesh. Paulo Freire was the first source Sir Fazle consulted on this part of BRAC's journey. Today BRAC also runs a city university one of whose unique features is every student spend an action learning term interning on a village innovation project
can you help norman macrae foundation call for a microeducationsummit before we lose the lifetime knowledge of these great educators (many way over 70) ?
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what would a million youth most wish to see in a 6 weeks mooc guided tour to www.brac.net -if you can help our research please email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc 1 301 881 1655
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KERRY GLASGOWIS HUMANITY'S LAST BEST CHANCE - Join search for Sustainaabilty's Curricula
101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LOEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970
Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
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IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE?
- we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my fatherwww.normanmacrae.netat the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book2025 report,retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with great womens education hero bangladesh'sfazle abed; Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ; it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
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I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc
please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 12 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi