By Courtney Calardo, Head of Communications | BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative Download Full Press Release New York, NY June 18, 2020 — Today, BRAC, a Global South-led NGO that combats inequality and poverty around the world, was announced as one of this year’s Audacious Project grantees. BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) will receive more a … Continued
By Nazia Moqueet | Senior Technical Advisor & Courtney Calardo, Senior Communications Manager | BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative This article originally appeared on UNDP’s blog on March 17, 2020. While both women and men are affected by extreme poverty, women have a considerably harder time escaping poverty, as their rights are not often protected. They … Continued
By Emily Coppel | Director of Communications, BRAC USA This article originally appeared in Devex on October 17, 2016. In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the number of recorded deaths has risen to … Continued
By Scott MacMillan | Director of Learning and Innovation, BRAC USA This article originally appeared in The Guardian on January 12, 2015. How do we reach the people at the bottom of the ladder? They are often the hardest to help, but pioneering work in Bangladesh is achieving genuine progress.
By Sadna Samaranayake | Program Manager, BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative and Rod Dubitsky, Senior Advisor and Chief Knowledge Officer, BRAC USA This article originally appeared in NextBillion on December 16, 2014. Successfully catapulting households over the extreme poverty line is incredibly hard work, and it requires philanthropic capital and grant-based approaches. In this second part … Continued