In August 2014, I participated in BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra Poor Immersion Visit which offered a unique, hands-on experience inside of BRAC’s Bangladesh operations. I learned about BRAC’s “graduation” approach, which provides people with a host of services and benefits to move them out of ultra-poverty and eventually into sustainable livelihoods. As a practitioner, I see …
There is an old Chinese proverb that is an inspiring message for sustainability and education. Most can probably quote it and explain the virtues of it: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Nuru International certainly touts this same …
“You need to focus in one area.” “Holistic Interventions simply don’t work…just ask the large, dinosaur NGOs that have tried them and failed over the last 40 years.” “Integrated models waste resources, create dependency, and cannot become sustainable.” “You can’t be all things to all people. All holistic models achieve is dilution of real impact …