Inspiring the community to be frugal

Photo: Adult female’s VSLA group named Peyara (Guava) from Noyapara village, Dampara union of Kishoreganj during a team voting for box keeper. Photo: Razu Ahmed. September 2020.
June 14, 2022 0 Comments

Shabana Akhtar (25) is a local service provider who provides savings related services in exchange of a fee and is…

Remote data collection during the COVID-19 crisis: practices and learnings from SHOUHARDO III Program

August 16, 2021 0 Comments

The spread of COVID-19 affected human lives globally; nationwide lockdown enforced a halt in travels to slow down the transmission.…

Saving lives by most effective yet least expensive way

October 17, 2019 0 Comments

  Global Handwashing Day, 15 October 2019 According to a baseline survey conducted by UNICEF in 2019, in Bangladesh 1…

Notes from the cutting edge: How work with youth highlighted gaps in implementation

September 24, 2019 0 Comments

A conversation on Failing Forward between Walter Mwasaa, Chief of Party, SHOUHARDO III, CARE Bangladesh and Colleen Farrell, Technical Advisor,…

The face of change inspiring others to swing into action

August 27, 2019 0 Comments

After almost a year of not traveling in the villages to meet with the participants, I finally got the chance…

Human Capacity Works beyond Imagination

June 30, 2019 0 Comments

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance” (Jodi…

Insights on the food security resilience at the intersection of development and emergency : Interview with Walter Mwasaa, Chief of Party, SHOUHARDO III, CARE Bangladesh

June 26, 2019 0 Comments

At his interview, Walter Mwasaa, Chief of Party for SHOUHARDO III with CARE Bangladesh, shares his insights on the conference…

CoP session in SHOUHARDO III: My Observation

June 23, 2019 0 Comments

Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities (SHOUHARDO) III program, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID)…

“Self-help” windows are accessible, let’s start with a “help-others” window

June 12, 2019 0 Comments

When I started as a Development Trainee (the very 1st batch of CARE Bangladesh), I met questions repeatedly, for instance,…

Khas land, a potential means for lifting the landless households out of poverty

June 12, 2019 0 Comments

“I cannot explain my feeling when I heard that the piece of land where we have been living for the…