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Community engagement in education grew during the COVID-19 crisis. Here is why that matters. BY RUKMINI BANERJI AND ASIF SALEH   Below is a piece originally published in Brookings.  For two years, COVID-19 has profoundly altered education at all levels—with extensive school closures, remote instruction, and controversies over public health policies in schools. But innovative...

During the COVID-19 crisis, BRAC was forced to make adjustments to its microfinance operations. Here is what was learned. BY SAHED SHAMS AZAD   This piece was originally published in NextBillion. It has been reposted below. One of the harshest economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been its impact on small businesses and the...

Because of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19, tens of thousands of young boys in Bangladesh had to leave school to work. BY CORINNE REDFERN AND ALI AHSAN    Below is an excerpt of a piece originally published in TIME. While it’s impossible to know exactly how many children in Bangladesh have started working since the...

A new platform will unite climate models, impact predictions, random control trial evaluations, and humanitarian services to bring cutting-edge tools to Bangladeshi communities. BY KYLIE FOY   Below is a piece originally published in MIT News. On April 11, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle...

BRAC USA has joined the Gender Standards Endorsers’ Circle. BY DONELLA RAPIER    Below is a piece originally published on genderstandards.org. Gender inequality affects women and girls―and men and boys―in every single country around the world. Children grow up seeing examples of gender inequality at home, on television, at school, and in their neighborhoods. As Nicholas...