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Bangladesh’s progress and achievements, BRAC being an importantcontributorin response to MDGs, are presented here.1

http://www.brac.net/sites/default/files/BRAC-Annual-Report-2010.pdf The Journal of Social Business130 JSB Vol.1(3) Oct 2011/ISSN2045-1083

Bangladesh's progress towards and achievement of Millennium Develoment Goals (MDGs) are as follows:

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Target: 29% Population below Poverty Line

Progress: On Track

Current Status: 30%Population below Poverty Line

BRAC Programmes Involved: Agriculture & Food Security; CommunityEmpowerment; Microfinance; Targeting the Ultra Poor; Gender Justice& Diversity; Advocacy for Social ChangeClosing the Gap:• Create self-employment through our microfinance programme;• Maximise the role of farmers in the implementation of agriculturalpractices and the use of new technologies; and• Provide grants of small assets to carefully selected ultra-poorhouseholds.

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

Target: 100% Net Enrolment in Primary Schools – 100% PrimaryStudents Reach Grade 5

Current Status: 92% Net Enrolment in Primary Schools – 55%Primary Students Reach Grade 5

BRAC Programmes Involved: EducationClosing the Gap:• Develop the professional capacity of teachers from Governmentprimary schools, increase community and parent participation inchildren’s education; and• A total of 252,040 students of BRAC primary Schools participatedin the grade 5 completion test of 2009 and 97.4% of them passedthe exam against 89% of national pass rate.

Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Target: 1% Gender Parity in Secondary Schools – 50% Women inWage Employment

Current Status: 1.2% Gender Parity in Secondary Schools – 29%Women in Wage Employment

BRAC Programmes Involved: Education; Community Empowerment;Human Rights & Legal Aid Services; Gender Justice & Diversity;Microfinance; Advocacy for Social ChangeClosing the Gap:JSB Vol.1(3) Oct 2011/ISSN2045-1083 131• Empowering adolescent girls through our specially designedmicrofinance scheme and life skills training clubs; and• Emphasising issues such as women’s right to property, genderculture change at household levels and strengthening systems thataddress gender based violence and abuse.

Goal: 4 Reduce Child Mortality

Target: 31 (per 1000 live births) Infant Mortality

Current Status: 41 (per 1000 live births) infant mortality

BRAC Programmes Involved: Health; Water, Sanitation & HygieneClosing the Gap:• Our Shasthya Shebikas, Shasthya Kormis, new-born health workersand skilled birth attendants all work together to deliver childimmunisation and essential health care services to the community;• Our birthing huts provide clean and private birthing places forslum women; and• Developing behaviour change communication tools to addressissues such as health and hygiene practices.

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Target: Maternal Mortality 144 (per 100,000 births); ContraceptivePrevalence 75% per couple

Current Status: Maternal Mortality 348 (per 100,000 births) –Contraceptive Prevalence 60% per couple

BRAC Programmes Involved: Health; Advocacy for Social ChangeClosing the Gap:• We are working with the Government and partners to scale-up ourmaternal, neonatal and child health programmes to maximisecoverage of regions with the worst mortality records;• Our health centres have been upgraded to offer emergencycaesarean sections, new-born care and services likeelectrocardiograms and ultra-sonograms; and• Preventive and curative practices are promoted through targetedhousehold visits and engaging local communities.

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

Target: Detection of TB Cases – 90% Use of Treated; Malaria Nets90% hotspots

BRAC Microfinance ModelThe Journal of Social Business132 JSB Vol.1(3) Oct 2011/ISSN2045-1083Current Status: Detection of TB Cases 70% [2009] Use of treatedMalaria Nets 81% hotspots [2009]BRAC Programmes Involved: Health; Education; Advocacy for SocialChangeClosing the Gap:• TB treatment success in 2010 in BRAC covered areas was higher(almost 93%) compared to the national average (almost 85%); and• Our TB-HIV collaborative project also offers HIV screening testsfor TB patients.

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Target: Use of Safe Drinking Water 89%; Use of ImprovedSanitation Facility 70%

Current Status: Use of safe drinking water 86% [2009]; Use ofimproved sanitation facility 54% [2009]

BRAC Programmes Involved: Disaster, Environment and ClimateChange; Water, Sanitation & HygieneClosing the Gap:• Priority is given to the arsenic affected areas and saline prone areasto increase access to safe drinking water;• Awareness raising sessions regarding water, sanitation and hygienepractices for different target audiences; and• Imported two desalination plants from China to help support theavailability of clean drinking water amongst affected people indisaster prone areas.

Goal 8: Develop Global Partnership for Development

BRAC Programmes involved: International Programmes; TrainingDivision; Research & Evaluation Division; Advocacy for Social ChangeClosing the Gap:• Negotiations are underway between BRAC and key developmentpartners to enter into a Strategic Partnership Arrangement, whichwill result in greater flexibility in resource allocation for ourdevelopment work; and• Collaborative efforts with international organisations in the areas

of research, training and impact monitoring.

Muhammad Yunus expresses faith in entrepreneurs at G20 summit

Posted on: November 23, 2011

Category: News

Microfinance Focus, November 4, 2011: Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited to deliver a key note speech during the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit held in Nice, France. Professor Yunus addressed an audience of more than 400 entrepreneurs from all G20 countries. In his speech, he shared his personal entrepreneurship experiences, his faith in young entrepreneurs to be the pillars of society and the need to include poor countries in the discussion process in making global decisions.

Professor Yunus being an entrepreneur himself started off creating the Grameen Bank that provides microfinance services to the poor who had little access to financial provisions. From that, he ventured into a wide number of social businesses such as Grameen Nursing College, Grameen Eyecare Hospitals, Grameen Shakti, etc.

He has always considered young entrepreneurs to be the most effective solution for the future. He said “In my opinion, G20 YES is a fabulous initiative, gathering so much energy and momentum from all over the world. Because of their creativity and leadership, provided that they commit to share the value they create, these 400 young entrepreneurs in this room can change the world.”

Professor Yunus is also a member of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Group, advising the Secretary General of the United Nations. Hence, he believes that the next generation of youths should be handed over the process of the MDGs as soon as possible. He believes that entrepreneurs will have a key role to play in fulfilling the MDGs, if they are committed to the social value created by their companies, and social business can be part of the solutions.

In his speech, he added that the G20 needed to broaden its scope to deal with the current world crisis. It can no longer remain a political forum with economic agendas. The G20 needs to create a social agenda as well. Professor Yunus proposes that ‘social business’ should be brought to the agenda of G20, as one of the concrete and effective solutions to be considered for immediate implementation so as to guide capitalistic investment towards social value and jobs creation, rather than sheer profit maximization strategies. A social business is a cause-driven business where profits stay within the company for its sustainability.

Lastly, Professor Yunus concluded that the G20 should be expanded into the G25, where poor countries from each continent should be included in the global agenda which they are part of. He added that “Their problems are inter-related with others, and their proposals of solutions should be considered by the most economically advanced countries in making global decisions. A G25 would be a big step toward ensuring that global social issues are raised, and MDGs implementation is fully shared on the global agenda. And finally, because fighting poverty together is the only way to bring long lasting peace in this world.”

Source: http://www.microfinancefocus.com/muhammad-yunus-expresses-faith-entrepreneurs-g20-summit

It explores how to make the invisible principles and practices of real wealth creation visible, and therefore useable. Our planet needs case studies underline the search for new win-wins that build ‘system integrity’
Trust-flow is the unseen wealth to invest sustainability in. Tranpsarently mapped it develops a goodwill gravity tyhat invites with roleplayer in a community to multiply goodwill while sustaining their own cashflow.. Trust is not some vague, mushy, abstract warm-hearted sentiment. It is an economic powerhouse – probably just as economically and socially important as oil.
The point is, there are specific things you need to do to get trust flowing, just as there are specific things you need to do to get oil flowing. And like oil trust has a dark side. Right now, the world is awash with the carbon emissions which threaten the stability and sustainability of its ecosystems. Right now, the world is also awash with the ‘carbon emission’ of trust – mistrust. Indeed it may well be that our ability to tackle the one issue – the threat of environmental catastrophe – depends on our ability to tackle the other issue: how to generate, deepen, extend and sustain trust.>br>But what is the best way of doing this? One thing is for sure. You don’t build and sustain trust via some sentimental exercise of goodwill to all and sundry. There are three very simple principles at the heart of effective trust generation.
First, trust is generated via win-win relationships. It’s virtually impossible to generate or sustain trust without mutual benefit for those involved. But beneficial outcomes are not enough in themselves. For trust to be built and sustained, both sides need to signal a demonstrable commitment to finding win-win ways forward. Such a commitment may require real changes to what we say and do. Second, real ‘win-wins’ are hardly ever purely financial or material. You don’t build trust simply by walking away with more cash in your pocket. Trust works at all the dimensions and levels of human exchange. Yes, it’s about financial and material rewards. But it’s also about purpose (what people want to achieve). It’s about politics with a small ‘p’: the use and abuse of power, the crafting and application of rules of fair play. And it’s about emotions: the sometimes overwhelmingly strong emotions, both positive and negative, that are generated when people deal with other peopleWhat’s constitutes a ‘win’ – a sense of real improvement – is therefore highly specific. It depends absolutely on the details of who the parties are, what they are trying to achieve, in what context. Building trus, therefore involves discovering these specifics. Just as oil doesn’t flow out of the ground, get refined and pump its way into motor vehicles automatically and without effort, so identifying and doing what is necessary to get trust flowing requires dedicated, skilled effort. It requires a disciplined, structured process, not a vague sentiment.

3) Third, even if we do steps 1) and 2) there’s still a good chance it won’t succeed. Why? Because it ignores an invisible third factor. In the real world, purely two way bilateral relationships don’t exist. There is always a third party whose interests or outcomes are affected by what the other two parties do but who is not a party to the contract. The environment is a case in point. Producers and consumers may both benefit from buying and selling to each other – but what happens if, in doing so, they destroy the environment they both depend on?

This raises a hugely important question. When two parties pursue win-wins and build mutual trust, are they doing so in a way which creates a win and builds trust for the third party at the same time? Or are they simply pushing the problems – and the mistrust – further down the line on to this third party? Building vigorous, healthy networks of trust is a different kettle of fish to ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ win-win conspiracies. It requires a Map of all the key relationships plus careful consideration of knock-on consequences. It requires a different perspective.

These three simple, basic steps do not happen automatically. They need to be worked at. The territory needs to be deliberately Mapped and explored. What’s more, there are obstacles in our way – mental and practical obstacles that need to be cleared. Prevailing economic theories about ‘rational economic man’ for example, deny the need to commit to win-win outcomes. Instead, they promote supposedly ‘rational’ (i.e. narrowly selfish behaviours) which actively undermine trust The same theories insist that the only valid measure of human benefit is money, thereby excluding from consideration many of the biggest opportunities for improvement. Meanwhile many vested interests do not want to extend the circle of trust to third parties and complete networks because their positions of power depend on their ability to take advantage of the weaknesses of these third parties. That’s another job for Mapping: helping to identify and mount such obstacles.
The potential benefits of doing so are unthinkably huge. They start with a simple negative: the relief that comes from when you stop banging your head against a brick wall. Mistrust breeds wasteful, wealth destroying conflict that tends to feed on itself. Anger and hatred engender anger and hatred. Simply easing or stopping the terrible waste of mistrust would transform prospects for many millions of people. We desperately need to find ways of doing this. Then there are the positive benefits. Understanding the real nature of human wealth – all those dimensions of purpose, ‘politics’ and emotion as well as money and material comfort – means we can start being human again; human in the way we think, and act. What’s more, many of these intangible benefits won’t cost a penny. They’re there for the taking, if only we puts our minds to it.
But there’s more, because trust is also an economic superpower in its own right. In the pages that follow we will show conclusively that material and financial riches are also dependent on trust. In fact, we will argue the case for going one step further. We will say that material and financial riches are a by-product of trust: the visible fruits of invisible, intangible human exchange. Once you understand that sustainable cash flows are a by-product of sustainable trust flows, your understanding of what makes a successful business is transformed.
Separately, each of these three fruits – reducing the waste of conflict, unleashing the potential intrinsic benefits of human exchange, and energising the sustainable creation of material wealth – are massive in their own right. Put them together and they represent a vast new continent of opportunity.
As we said, this book is addressed to entrepreneurs and system innovation revolutionaries. Wherever you happen to be, whatever the change you want to make is, the principles explored in this book apply. The wish to change and the will to change are not the same as being able to change successfully. For that you need to understand your territory. You will need new Maps