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BRAC Goal 1-5 Developing and Sustainability's world’s benchmark model for crediting girls livelihoods to end poverty (famine), dehydration, illiteracy, cultural and environmental safety &...

The world’s largest collaboration of NGOS – designed round bottom-up economic models that help make charities sustainable wherever practical and which in pre-digital era to 1996  have innovated big data small conditional giving (targeted so recipients graduate round self-sustaining livelihoods which also build communities resilience/self-capacity)

BRAC was Established 1972, by Sir Fazle Abed, previously Shell’s national CEO for the nation of East Pakistan,  within the first year of the new nation of Bangladesh -8th most populous nation, originally poorest. Core to Muslim S Asia bordered to west and north by India and east by Myanmar 

 

.As a formal constitution, BRAC was founded 11 years ahead of Grameen Bank though the 1970s was a decade in which both Muhammad Yunus and Sir Fazle tested many ideas concerned with empowering village women and their urgent challenges to end their children’s death by famine and by dehydration, as well as failure to develop mind and body during the first 1000 days of infancy

Overall, BRAC’s innovations empower  Bangladesh rural partnership solutions celebrating female networks:

Goal 2 solutions to end hunger pioneered rice science for small landowners with China and sme redesign of many agricultural value chains and food security for mothers and infants

Goal 3 developed rural health service from scratch. Sir Fazle Abed originally went to live and learn ion a 40 square mile area where a million people had been killed by cyclone and war, with all infrastructure lost. Among many live-saving solutions, oral rehydration was the first that brac tested fir replication across the rural nation. Scaling this in partnership with UNIXEF took BRAC’s networks nation wide and empowered mothers and daughters to network health (raising life expectancy from 30s to 60s- and establishing women as economic actors in a culture that had previously treated women as an underclass). Thanks to health service networking the modal rural family size was reduced from 9+ children to about 3 during brac’s first 20 years of generation)

Goal 4 brac was founded round type 2 education which in 2015 NPR estimates to have impacted livelihoods of 150 million peoples – ie peer to peer skills exchange across communities recovering from disaster and continuing with personal development (ed adults ending illiteracy) and development of interconnecting rural communities.  Targeted initially at adults, BRAC’s primary education networks over its first 15 years connected village schooling for rural children- with many of brac’s teachers originating as graduates of its adult program. In billion dollar funding partnership with mainly DFID,  BRAC emerged as the world’s largest non-government operator of schools (primary and pre-primary

 During the pre-digital quarter century, BRAC can be seen to have targeted leading co-creation of the billion jobs that renew communities with focus on goals 1-5. In progressing these goals , BRAC also redesigned the value chain of financial services around women-owned SMEs. It is BRACs form of microfinance plus that offers an integrated model of banking for the poor which stays ahead of big banking's crises

1996: Technology partnerships (including mobile and microsolar) started to be planted in Bangladesh originally around Muhammad Yunus who was also asked by famous people like the Clintons and Queen Sofia to launch the annual millennial goals summit microcredisummit. BRAC took a much longer-term approach to global partnerships it selected.

A Bangladesh end poverty NGO cannot fundraise for international development. Out of the Netherlands BRAC formed a constitution so that it could go international mainly by choosing one (technology) partner who wished to support the development of a specific Muslim nation. Such partnership through the 2000s included Gates Foundation, George Soros (who selected several ;post-genocide nations), MastercardFoundation. Although the Clintons continued to mainly to promote partnerships around Muhmmad Yunis, when it came to last mile health networking they and jin kim and paul farmer found that BRAC was the origin of most solutions

Back in Bangladesh in 1999, Sir Fazle Abed started to found BRAC University. This is a for-profit university but aims to join new universities concerned with develop flagship curricula for the future of public service- The James Grant School of Public Health being BRAC’s first leading case

Technology partners who originally designed experiments with Muhammad Yunus soon found that if digital models are going to scale to bank for a billion or more unbanked, it was BRAC’s total SME design of financial services they needed to partner in Bangladesh. It also helped to focus on this concept to market from 2006 (as by then kit was clear that mobiles would offer universal forms of connectivity unimaginable in 1996). So partners of BRAC developed bkash to become the world’s largest cashless banking system (admittedly drawing on some coding and regulatory innovations that were first seen in Kenya’s MPESA

2008-2012 saw many pre-digital microfinance institutions that had been celebrated in the west fail to complete technology transformations without changes of ownership away from a majority pro-poor base. By 2012 BRAC felt confident enough to stage 2 roundtables at the japan embassy in Dhaka hosted by Sir Fazle Abed and Kamil Quadir on the good news that they now appeared to have sufficient global partners to develop bkash to continue girl empowerment and be the number 1 cashless bank. This milestone was reached by 2016 and in Apriil 2018 Jack Ma’s Ant Finance announced it was joining the partners of Bkash as Ant Finance also wanted to see banking for over 1 billion previously unbanked S Asians, and as Alibaba's Global Business School wants to be sure that its first cases clarify female developments whole truth.

In June 2018,  the UN General Assembly reviewed how the 17 smartest goals of our human race BUT as yet have no financial access to the main liquid assets (300 trillion dollars worth) it was recommended that yet again Bangladesh can be one of the first places to explore how to urgently change this non-sustainable state of affairs

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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 father www.normanmacrae.net at the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book 2025 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's fazle 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
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

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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 1 2 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

help assemble worldrecordjobs.com card pack 1in time for games at cop26 glasgow nov 2021 - 260th year of machines and humans started up by smith and watt- chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk- co-author 2025report.com, networker foundation of The Economist's Norman Macrae - 60s curricula telecommuting andjapan's capitalist belt roaders; 70s curricula entreprenurial revolution and poverty-ending rural keynesianism - library of 40 annual surveys loving win-wins between nations youth biographer john von neumann


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