sir fazle abed

we mourn the loss of the greatest hero we have ever been privileged to meet sir fazle abed
he developed systems of collaboration that are benchmarks for village women to end poverty by maximising community last mile service/franchises
in health
food security
community safety/resiliency
finance
livelihood education
if you now where optimal case studies are published we welcome the chance to celebrate - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

sir fazle changed top down disaster relief and development from trickle down charity to locally sustainable business models

brac partnerships - built on trust in abed to be the largest in ngo world can be mapped in two halves of fazle abed's 50 years dedication to poverty alleviation before which he spent 10 years ascending to east pakistan regional ceo at royal dutch shell - and like gandhi being a teenage student abroad in fazle abeds case being in the 200th class studying markets and machines at glasgow university started by adam smith and james watt

first quarter of century - all peer to peer or paper based as villagers had no aceess to electricity grids

second quarter of century as partners brought mobile and solar to villages how could brac go 3 dimensional
- global where other nations wanted to replicate brac community solutions,
national market leadership so that brac could design total value chaines to integrate poorest
local- last mile- across 100000 village microfranchises

we will try to build some tours celebrating the legacies sir fazle hoped that he had seeded - in particular brac university as one of the lead partners of soros osun network launched at world economic forum round 20 colleges and researchers most concerned with youth being the sdg generation

and understanding the fit of 7 parts to the financial services value chain which ranged from fintechs number 1 platform the unbanked bkash linkin in final partners of fazle aded including jack ma's ant finance and gates foundation.

ultra poverty research- whose systemcn alalysis earned boston poverty lab a nobel prize

we also miss one of the 5 deepest networkers fighting against infectious diseases a coalition that came together with soros funding to include bostons jim kim and paul farmer and medecins sans frontieres in ebola hit liberia and sierra leone two of the nations that soros had selected for brac international to support