economistbangla.com POP sustainability goals: little sisters outrace big brothers
Purpose Questions from Friends20.com regarding.***Mass Collaborations to UN future summit 2023- are you tech wizard who can help us linkin New York & any other place where citizens demand sustainability for their children? rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Educators needed to help with any of 30 collaborations making alumni of fazle abed the world's largest partnership in future of civil society and womens sustainability goals www.economistwomen.com do you have any connections with the netherlands- this is where abed's ideas on how bangladesh can share solutions/rural adaptations world needs on climate, and many ways of leapfrog social-business models 1 2 with technology both to end poverty, empower women, maximise middle class, progress both urban and rural youth can find optimal global partners if you are interested in future of technology - look at this OECD paper -any questions? ** university graduate collaborations are the way to scale futures we need - do you work on 1) ultra poor, 2 playschool 3 anything else brac university and barcelona global university are celebrating worldwide 2022 |
| povertyuni at facebook - fazle abed world record jobs---pro-youth educators ----.HOW DO YOU BUILD ONE DOLLAR HOMES? IN BANGLADESH 1972 FAZLE ABED COMMUNITIES BUILT 16000 HOMES AT COST OF around A DOLLAR EACH- HERE'S HOW AND HOW ONE MAGICAL ECONOMIC TRICK LED TO ANOTHER UNTIL AN ECONOMIC MODEL SUSTAINING BILLION POOREST WOMEN AND A UNIVERSITY COALITION SHARING THIS KNOWHOW GAVE 2021 YOUTH THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE FIRST SUSTAINABILITY GENERATION- how shell ceo applied business to society's greatest needs and socety's values to business' most excitingly human purposes | ...macrae family arranged 15 student journalists trip ro bangladesh between xmas 2007 and 2018- our notes were shared with 7 states staging social business competitions in usa, economist editors, adam smith scholars and glasgow u journals - our first visit was to the extraordinary dr yunus so we have logged up notes we have verified in a special section corresponding to 2008 in this blog- we discussed yunus knowhow with 2000 mainly students we gave his book to-- however over our 13 years of visits we became ever more interested in the networks of sir fazle abed which after 50 years of relentless empowerment were at his time of death the world's largest ngo partnership and around which he spent his last 10 years asking his friends to make his legacy the largest open university coalition (30 and counting as of summer 2020) of poverty Thanks to Sir Fazle Abed of BRAC .. bkash (largest cashless bank) 1 .. and largest partnership NGO In the world: Bangladesh celebrates one of girls and sustainability world's top 3 job creators -BRUN |
At BRAC we never met banker for the poor- we met 100000+ educators for poor- see 80th birthday note to Abed: his co-workers thanks SIR FAZLE ABED BA University Glasgow Naval Architect; 2014 – Honorary Doctor of Laws, Princeton University, US .. 2012 – Doctor of Laws honori causa, University of Manchester, UK … 2010– Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, University of Bath, UK ...2009 – Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Oxford, UK ...2009 – Honorary Doctorate in Humane letters, Rikkyo University, Japan...2008 – Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Columbia University, US...2007 – Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Yale University, US...2003 – Honorary Doctorate of Education, University of Manchester, UK...1994 – Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Queen's University, Canadaother partnerships - with berkeley us's first research of bangladeshi-american diaspora …. books on brac -Quiet Revolution (Marty Chen 1983); Freedom From Want (smiley 2009); Driving Development (2016): - downloadable papers 1 | Oral Rehydration (Health) Crafts theatre university Best news we free scots have ever heard -48 hours just changed world1000days.world April 2018 is sir fazle abed's 82nd birthday and 1000 days to 2021 - the year china ends poverty, the last decade the UN values human sustainability as possible and how can your will peoples you trust celebrate 2021? China.Japan. Korea. Asean. India. Arctic. Africa. America..1 2 3 4 5 If you can celebrate millennials linking together these 5 Bangladesh-born alumni networks, anything can be possible including economists celebrating how to end poverty,, here are some alumni testimonies brac2.ppt of BRAC @ Bangla - to add rsvp isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com
| ||
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Before fazle abed - probably 90% of Aid to former british colonies compounded little growth of the peoples
Monday, February 28, 2022
CHANGING EDUCATION -easy if you start in the right mind space
In the new nation of Bangladesh the majority of the education system 0 to 17 was designed by for and with village mothers. It was a relentless intergenerational endeavour -once communities across this rural nation had figured out 6 to 17 they celebrated new millennium by starting redesigning universities which needed village leapfrog models as well as celebrating last mile health innovations (world class one partnerd with Unicef James Grant whose school of public health is a crownj jewel of Brac U) - all of this may sound controversial to nations with hundred year old education systems - so lets just start with the common sense of playschools the way bangladesh's most loving mothers chose to design things - then we can debate if they got anything suboptimal for your nation's most urgent needs | Welcome to 2020s decade of everyone is both student and teachers (this view was first explored by 1950s alumni of von neumann journalists question ask leaders what they are going to do with 100 times more tech every decade); by the early 1980s some of these journalists wrote a book 2025report.com on why education transformation would determine human sustainability as every kind of S in ESG encountered digital -with education needing to empower everyone curiosity
... |
THANKS TO KIDS 3 TO 6
Young kids teach
elders love- from 3 up they are perfectly able to do this in group settings - so what do Teachers at play school need to know how to practice -more at www.abedplay.com direct from alumni of the world's first playschool MA of the SDG generation -see also Abedmooc.com tag 4.5
-a loving safe space for every
being
How to be literate before leaving play school (in their sixes for kindergarten and up)
(this only takes one term (eg playschools next leavers) and can be group led by those kids who are
already literate 21st c montessori so to speak)
Surveys of 5 yeAR olds have show
wnat they find most fun - eg arts, musics - if someone has an edge at one of
tehse expereintialo skills its trgaic not to have identified this and logged it
up with parenst and next school
Although maths is the only subject
i got aherad of the class on in 1950s i am not sure- it was to do with
confidence, and seeing maths as puzzles (with a puzzle people cekbrate when you
didscover the answer instead of marnking your efforts wrong)
Its good news tha basic financial
literacy is already possible by age 9 thanks to the cuddiculum that srtarted at
an indian orphanage and i8s now hubbed out of netherlands
Really important with playschools
is make them as local as possible- no car pooling - ideally make each school
closest to each 20 families with a kid 3 to 6- for example why dont mosr family
aparments have a playschool- of course whats important is the teacher is independent
of he apprtment iself- also you might look and see if your place has any
semi-retiring nurses - many might make good playscool leaders
What so we know about peimary?
….
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
While some people visited Cambridge's number 1 maths lab DAMPT to study black holes in space, I have been interested in unique purpose of leaders, organisations and networks on earth. I didnt see my father very often as he was chasing the most exciting stories linked to the scoop of meeting Von Neumann in Princeton 1951 and being told to ask decision makers what would they do with 100 times more tech a decade , a million times more a generation of 30 years. Strangely only one us president kennedy accepted that challenge moon race. I guess that made dad even more focused. By 1983 this tech scenario was easy to conceive (dad and my book 2025report, chapter 7) but scared the heck out of dad as the first 1180 years of Glasgow's machine 1760-1940 had led to him spending hiis last days as a teenager at war allied bomber command burma campaign History does seem to sj=how that with new tech -there are those trying to connect good- thoise trying to connect fear and ofetn a far bigger group who are blind because the tech hides (or sunbconsciously diverts) the whole future truth Anyway a billion poorest vailege women have linked the most purposeful colaborations I expect ever to see - Is there anything that you cant do as a partner of the most collaborative entreprebneur network bridging enviroinmental , societal and goverance challenges tell us if you need more information or if you can help with associated pilot projcets such as Neumann AI Hall of Famew Womensverse.net or how can you help the younbger half of world be the fisrt sustainability generation | .How did Abed Collabs become world's most empowering -he changed aid across former british empire (which hab stunted growth of majority of humans especiaally Asian women); while post war aid was well intended britain had bankrupted itself as last defemce agiamst hitler- so it could declare colonies independent but not change the rotten borders and top down sysatems it had compounded changing aid started with finding the most trusted partners in solutions ro end starvation and end last mile deaths of infants and mothers- fortunately or no cost solutions were searchable by abed who had been asia's leading young oil company engineer- the challenge was action learning networks - ironically because bangladesh had been colonised by pakistan after india the new nation's government was so poor that it could only reach the 10% who lived in the cities; so bangladesh women were freed by abed to map bottom up relief and human development - abed designed positive cash flow microfranchises wherever possible- where he sought a grant he aimed to find a partner who desperately wanted to solve the same problem - one quarter of all infants were dying in tropical villages of diarrhea- by showing the world's poorest village mothers could solve that UNICEF led by James Grant became the partner that helped design last mile health service which raised life expectancy by 20 years. ..Abed as an engineered blueprinted deep data by hand in a way I have never seen others do manually - if you are going to chaange value chains from vailge bootom to top- you going to need to change hos value is governed witin metavilages, across all vilages, national market leaders, worldwide market (as he did for aid). Not everyone likes the idea that bottom up ESG needs to be connected across society's exchnages of food, health, sfateym education as well as finace and local gov services. But then as we now knbow maths chaos theory is just about an amazon butterfly flappings its wings, its about cirsues like covid (or indeed abusing nature evolutionary rules on climate). If we cant design the most purspoefully colabration networking humans have ever united- we'll be the next dodo. Let's choose who we celebrate now our last chance faces us all |
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
1 dec
List of co-hosts:
- Aga Khan University (Pakistan)
- Alive & Thrive (India)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) (India)
- Helen Keller International (HKI) (Nepal)
- IDinsight (South Asia)
- Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) (Sri Lanka)
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) (Bangladesh)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (South Asia)
- National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) (India)
- NITI Aayog (India)
- SickKids Centre for Global Child Health (South Asia)
- Standing Together for Nutrition (STfN) (Global)
- Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) (Global)
- UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) (Regional)
- World Health Organization South-East Asian Regional Office (WHO-SEARO) (Regional)
- World Bank South Asia (Regional)
4th edition
nutrition & cov19
Welcome by moderator
Purnima Menon, International Food Policy Research Institute
Opening remarks by co-chairs
Shahidur Rashid, IFPRI & Vinod Paul, NITI Aayog
Importance of implementation research for improving programs for women and children in the context of COVID-19 (video)
Margaret Bentley, The Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN)
Impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health and nutrition: Global situation analysis
Saskia Osendarp, Micronutrient Forum
Impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health and nutrition: South Asia situation
Aatekah Owais, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health
Adapting program actions and implementation research to support nutrition during COVID-19: An example from Nepal
Pooja Pandey, Helen Keller International (HKI), Nepal
Q&A
Overview of Conference
Rasmi Avula, IFPRI
Closing Reflections
Vinod Paul, NITI Aayog
Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aga Khan University and SickKids Centre for Global Child Health
Shahidur Rashid, IFPRI
day 2
THEMATIC SESSION 2A: DISRUPTIONS, RESTORATIONS, AND ADAPTATIONS TO NUTRITION AND HEALTH INTERVENTIONS DURING COVID-19
TIME: 23:30-01:00 EST | 04:30-06:00 GMT | 09:30-11:00 PKT | 10:00-11:30 IST/SLT | 10:15-11:45 NPT | 10:30-12:00 BST
CO-CHAIRS: AVULA LAXMAIAH, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION & RUCHIKA CHUGH SACHDEVA, BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
Using high frequency health information system data to quantify effects of COVID-19 on disruption and restoration of health and nutrition services in India
Anita Christopher, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
COVID-19: Access to maternal health service in informal settlements of Mumbai
Rijuta Sawant, Society for Nutrition Education & Health Action (SNEHA)
COVID-19 adaptations in the implementation of an MIYCN counseling intervention in urban Bangladesh
Santhia Ireen, Alive & Thrive
Tele-monitoring continuity of adolescents and women’s nutrition services in eastern India during and after the COVID-19 lockdown: Results and lessons from Swabhimaan impact evaluation sites
Neha Abraham, ROSHNI – Centre of Women Collectives led Social Action, Lady Irwin College
Social innovations to nudge behavior change in maternal and adolescent nutrition practices across 11 districts of India
Shantanu Sharma, MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child
Impact of COVID-19 on iron and folic acid supply chain in India: Interruption in IFA procurement and distribution
Jitendra Singh, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
Improvements in IFA supplementation coverage under Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB): Evidence from Health Management Information System (HMIS)
Archa Misra, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
Q&A
THEMATIC SESSION 2B: DISRUPTIONS, RESTORATIONS, AND ADAPTATIONS TO NUTRITION AND HEALTH INTERVENTIONS DURING COVID-19
TIME: 01:30-03:00 EST | 06:30-08:00 GMT | 11:30-13:00 PKT | 12:00-13:30 IST/SLT | 12:15-13:45 NPT | 12:30-14:00 BST
CO-CHAIRS: ROBERT J0HNSTON, UNICEF & NEHA RAYKAR, IDINSIGHT
Adaptive implementation of a community nutrition and asset transfer program during COVID-19 pandemic in rural Bangladesh
Yunhee Kang, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Delivery of routine maternal and child vaccines and nutritional services in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Averi Chakrabarti, University of Pennsylvania
Mobile Interventions for Upscaling Participation and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (m-UPAVAN): A feasibility study
Emily Fivian, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
A digital platform for continuing interface with potential program participants for nutritional and early childhood development counselling even during COVID-19 pandemic
Shashwat Kulkarni, Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Maharashtra
Program impact pathway of the Positive Deviance/Hearth Interactive Voice Calling Program in a peri-urban context of Cambodia
Kate Reinsma, World Vision International
Transitioning from in-person to telephone-based counseling during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from a large-scale, multi-sector nutrition program in Nepal
Indra Dhoj Kshetri, Helen Keller International (HKI)
Q&A
THEMATIC SESSION 3: IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON FOOD SECURITY AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMS
TIME: 04:00-05:30 EST | 09:00-10:30 GMT | 14:00-15:30 PKT | 14:30-16:00 IST/SLT | 14:45-16:45 NPT | 15:00-16:30 BST
CO-CHAIRS: KD RENUKA SILVA, WAYAMBA UNIVERSITY & DIPA SINHA, DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY
Impacts of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security on migrant families in Chhatarpur and Sheopur Districts Madhya Pradesh, India
Archana Sarkar, GIZ
Understanding the reality: The pandemic and its effects
Isha Rangnekar, Action Against Hunger
Collaborations that addressed food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
Vinita Ajgaonkar, Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA)
What changed for PDS beneficiaries with the National Food Security Act, and during Covid-19
Mamata Pradhan, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Do ration cards predict ration volumes? Findings from household surveys across six Indian states
Prateek Pillai and Victor Zhenyi Wang, IDinsight
Revision of the wheat flour fortification standard in Indonesia and disruption in its implementation due to COVID-19
Rozy Afrial Jafar, Nutrition International
Recovery and ongoing challenges in food insecurity among Asia Pacific poor households in 2020-2021
Yunhee Kang, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Food insecurity and perceived COVID-19 impacts among rural households in Sri Lanka
Nishmeet Singh, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Q&A
CLOSING SESSION: FROM EVIDENCE TO POLICIES, PROGRAMS AND BETTER LIVES: KEY INSIGHTS FROM DELIVERING FOR NUTRITION 2021
TIME: 06:00-07:30 EST | 11:00-12:30 GMT | 16:00-17:30 PKT | 16:30-18:00 IST/SLT | 16:45-18:15 NPT | 17:00-18:30 BST
MODERATOR: PURNIMA MENON, IFPRI
Conference summary
Panelist reflections & way forward
Md. Khalilur Rahman, Bangladesh National Nutrition Council, Bangladesh
Rakesh Sarwal, NITI Aayog, India
Kiran Rupakhetee, National Planning Commission, Nepal
Shagufta Zareen, Policy and Strategic Planning Unit, Pakistan
Renuka Jayatissa, Medical Research Institute, Sri Lanka
Zivai Murira, UNICEF South Asia
Meera Shekar, World Bank
Angela de Silva, WHO-SEARO
Temina Lalani-Shariff, CGIAR, South Asia
Q&A
photosday1
education of pregant women
each stage in development of new born infant
eg first few weeks breast feeding
if get stunted at ay stage cant respond to acute dusease which then begins killer
more dots that continuity whole "education" of child from 0 up and parets or whomever relay through to education/community
childhood wassting -pandemic beyond facade country cn sende to space and produce vaccine but cant end child wasting
wee need health resilient systems community level - impact nutrition , health, women, education - accelerate investment in sdgs now covid has exposed ths lack of fundamentals
last mile health - last 200 yars health frst 12 weeks of infant
anamei sokutions only take weeks to intervene but not done wholly on ground
Monday, October 25, 2021
sobhan imf report 2025 500 bn overake uae, norway ... ?
we have special economic zoes -tech
we need hightly trained bureucracylook atwhatm5 major consultants are saying - bangla is the go to country
huq what we mean by digital bangladesh - end cash dealings
we need tofos=cus even more on teenage eeducation-livelihood match
be carefu with levelsof protecionsim we use
kerry badge bangladesh sdvance ... energy
mitogation for disasters -cyclon disaster buildngs
size of iowa 4th larehst prodicer rice , veggies. fish
from 98% dependent on aid to 3%
growth 6% for over 2 decades
demale edu, employment, ngo network
ms huq -lower mid good gov? energy of ourpeopoes, - we never give up indomitable spirit
miss abed- popularon density is asset for us - mobile /fin inckusion cos of dense population - homogenous/harmonoiuspopulation; our peoples have resilience built into our nature- entrepreneurial nature
amb mozena'
neverseen more enrepreneurail. resilient...
In fact, prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, Bangladesh’s economic growth surpassed 7% for four consecutive years, a rate higher than Pakistan, India, and even China.
Yet these advances are frequently overlooked, leaving Bangladesh with a poor reputation on the global stage. While political, social, and economic problems persist, it is necessary to recognize the progress of the country. Join CSIS for an event to understand how Bangladesh made such strides and what the future may hold for the developing world.
This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.
Friday, February 19, 2021
help us list brac microfranchising solutions by goal and by quarter of a century
have me missed something - rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Thursday, February 18, 2021
poorest billion womens economic model
typical bangladesh village 300 one-room homes - total 1500 people eg farher, mother, 3 children
typical brac para- health servant - 300 homes
typical brac village circle - women sharing financial and other knowhow =30
brac's resilient community lab built 1972 = 16000 homes ie cluster of 50 villages
by 2008 brac served about 65000 villages in bangladesh ie impacting 100 million people
brac's microfinance program may have served over a third of village mothers
==============================
->SAFETY/RESILIENT village communities - goal 1 finance to end poverty see also relationships abed and 2019 nobel economics prize-
rct=randomised control trialsgoal 2 end death by starvation - see abed and world food prize (borlaug alumni network); goal 3 last mile health - see gates health prize and abed- together these form core of rural keynesianism models - see coverage of this economic miracle The Economist 1977
in village asia poverty was ended by village mothers who became village microfranchise /sme owners; demanded their savings were put into education and goal 4 and celebrated the societal revolution of women hold up half the shy -ie goal 5 gender equality;
(resilient communities included building most basin monsoon proof homes; adding pit latrines; part of goal 6 sanitation- maximising info flows/preparedness for cyclones at community levels)
1 lab for resilient community
16000 homes - 100000 people
1$ home with pit latrine
home monsoon proof- yard for cooking -
community preparedness against cyclones etc disaster man 1 2
legal support - particularly property rights to homes- 1) maximising ownership by mothers reversed culture of husband right to dismiss wife and children; most of rural bangladesh was simultaneously settled- informal evolved into formal oweneship provided suffiencent suppoort - brac barefoot lawyers
goal 3
last mile community health networkers- along with food security first scaled microfrancises late 1970s early 1980s
stock 10 most basic health products; eg antiseptic, bandages , condom; knowledge to help eg pregnant mothers .
.. later helped timetable nationwide vaccination campaigns, detect tuberculosis- bracs special program to end tb - attracted year 2000 atention of jimkim paul farmer bill gates and george soros
beginning in latre 197-0s, first time brac scaled beyond home region was direct knowledge of oral rehydration to every village mother - this attracted attention of both china barefoot medics and unicefs james grant - he became a worldwide networker of oral rehydration; asking how he could support abed, he was told convince national leaders of vaccination- grant stageds a challenge brac would vaccinate half the nation ; bangla gov would vaccinate other half; later when berac opened a university- its first world class college was james grant school of public health and one of the university's first governors was the epidemilogist and former vice chancellor of swarthmore
all other process - women empowered enterprises and educational movements
30 per finance circle
300 per last mile village health service
double loop change to dev investment
direct actions ortherapy vaccination
microfranchising
7 financial solution networks
100 agriculture networks