What is new ABED UNIVERSITY?

goal 100%?livesmatter?communities?5.1?5.2?5.3?5.4?5.5?5.6; 4 edu?4.1?4.2?4.3?4.4?4.5?4.6?3 last mile health services?3.1?3,2?3.3?3.4?3.5?3.6?nutrition?2.1?2.2?2.3?2.4?2.5?2,6?banking for all?1.1?1.2?1.3?1.4?1.5?1.6

after dad the economist norman macrae died, the japan ambassador to bangladesh introduced me to asia's longest/deepest 50 yar mapmaker of rural keynesianism- over 10 years we debated what could mooc of knowhow abed shared in celebrating billion asian womens as number 1 civic society colab worldwide- young asian journalost associates and i got as far as posting notes into 30 learning modules- actually one started after abed's death in dec 2019 - 5.6 how do we zoom summits of globally powerful men into curricula empowering teachers and girls students - economistdiary.com offers tours to uregent summits eg ecop26.com glasgows 26oth reunion of how are machines humans and health geeting on- first engineer james watt had a passion for applying machines to health; first trade mapmaker adam smith..

Who's Alumni You? Most of us are alumni of a few vips: your parents? your most exciting teacher? the wealthiest person you bumped into? an artist or coder? your loyal heart? fazle abed asked WHO wanted to be alumni of billion poorest women- he spent 50 years on the job: possibly humanity's last chance of 2020s youth being the first sustainability gen .

need more ideas? consider collaboration - kennedy's lost declaration: interdependence

-------------------------------------------------------------------- abed helped conceive 30 networks women could advance humanity around- at the top of the picture we sample 6

5.1 from his start in 1972 with 100000 person poorest in world village lab to

5.3 bracnet- from 1996 japanese & americans in silicon valley helped abed design a nationwide internet for the poor and their most collaborative partners; this was the first non village lab abed started to engineer;

4.4 Abed Uni born 2001= One of 6 deepest collaboration networks fazle abed and billion poorest women empowered by anticipating 2020s youth's responsibility apply to prevent extinction and celebrate being the first sdg generation?. this idea morphed into a global university of poverty networks which he spent his last 20 years brainstorming with any curious ambassador to bangladesh, SustainableDG partner or youth- particularly asian women (in the footnote we reproduce the handout distributed at abed's 80th birthday to 2 chinese graduate ladies determined enough to stop off in dhaka before gigs at rhodes oxford and columbia u ny who visited brac to connect for all generations to come).

4.5 early childhood nations networks from 2008 - stemmed from a new to the world masters launched by brac university and attracting the new brain scientists von neumann had called for in his yale lectures but which got lost from costly american unis for 50 years with a few brave exceptions eg flow research at drucker's claremont and some epidemiologist led colleges

3.1-3 village womens microhealth networking started in 1977 with unicef james grant and amereican chinese missionaries and barefoot chinese doctors celebration of china demanding rural women be valued more than city intellectuals- china's women hold up half sky -last mile health, last mile food security, last mile village schooling all became chinese womens networks nation building responsibility - see the economist surveys of asian rural keynesianism 1975-77 footnote 1

1.2 brac microfinance plus which started organically around 1979 because by now village women were operating thousands of extremely small but positve cashflow village businessed geared to the overall nation building goal of inccrease life expectancy from 25 below world average- while a places life expectancy is in the 40s it simply isnt possible to school most kids past 13- so while abed built a filed network of 100000 village/community skills trainers over his 50 years of building billion women end poverty networking, they needed a banking system that built savings and loans out of villages with no electricity grids handling the smallest transaction amounts ever accounted for

you could say his working life comprised three thirds each of which multiplied the precious collaboration action networking exponentials;

1. 2019-1996 leapfrog platforms connecting billion poorest women village empowerment with all millennials lifes purposes if they were to be the generation that prevents extinction
2. 1996-1972 25 years of lab partnerships gravitated in the villages but mapping value chains from 1 village sustainable leadership to 100000 vilages to nation leading enterpises to changing the worldwide markets of aid at least in as far as they impacted last mile education, health, food security, investment in homes aligned to nature
3. 1972-1947 abed's life had chaged at age of 11 - WHY? HOW?

WHY - there was nothing for a curious teenager to discover about world of 1950s from the furthest north east corner of old britsh raj now ruled by pakistan- so like gandhi nearlu three quarters of a century earlier he was determined to go network with students of empire; unlike gandhi who chose law from bar of london abed chose ship engineering from adam smith's glasgow university- how might his home land ever build a superport? the bay of benglal had been 19th century asia's greatest trading bay as i am sure vice president kamala knows from her mom's hometown chennai (previously madras)

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this question of why has my homeland no world trade superport turned out to be a little too big for a 21 year old to manage on his own- so he joined royal dutch shell oil company and by 1970 had worked hard to become its regional ceo for his homeland when a cyclone killed million people all around him- so ruling over oil struck him as not his life's purpose, and next he sold up his flat in london and started BRA-C= Bangladesh Rural Advancement Cooperation - which became the deepest platform for women empowerment the world will ever see. history a weird western expert subject of men hating to hear how women build nations- in asia where educators are trusted let alone obeyed more than western-empire's economists stories of women building nations are the greatest entrepreneurial networks you can help empower- at least that's what we who's alumni abed treasure wherever peacefully conscious family building is free and natural to purpose life around

HOW instead of his peoples (8th largest population in world) the british in hatsily exiting the whole of south asia gave the agha khan and pakistan the power to colonise the region for 24 years; this was economically as well as socially destructive beyond belief, including my grandad sir ken kemp who had with gandhi written up legalese of independence of the whole subcontinent united as oe quarter of the world's peoples;

instead so called partitioning of the old british raj lost the lives of millions who became refugees overningt; abed's homeland whse trades were shipped through calcutta were now excluded from shipping trade hemmed in by india which saw both pakistans as enemies and myanmar - a nation which was arguably the most exciting multicultural space of the first half of the 20th century - see hollywood's road to mandalay or orwell's travel tours of burmese days or even british pathe rangoon 1920s

============================Economist references; founders death calcutta 1860 through lack of oral rehtdration, 1955 birth of eu; 1960 jfk moon race; 1962 kennedy endorses japans belt road capitalism and deming revolution in engineering and particularly taiwan's borlaug agriculture green revolution; 1962 kennedy declares american interdependence with rest of world;

- rural keynesianism empowered by billion poorest women (also the life's unrequited search of schumacher) the second economic miracle innovated by two thirds of humans who are asian alongsde the jfkennedy endorsement of japans belt road capitalism 1962 : japan-korea-taiwan-hong kong-singapore bullet trains contaiberisation sme value chains electronics which placed such a large orde with intel that it had to invent program chip and silicon valley for entrepreneurs of 100 times more von neumann tech every decade 60s to 2020s

sad news ; american mass media sells fear and hatred with such big stories as: 1963 decade of black and white assassinations accelerate; nixon turns against american youth poison pilling college education...meanwhile 1972 next forty years suggest tech applications to finance will be vital but tech revolutions of education will determine sustainability- hence western debates of 1976 entrepreneurial revolution; 1982 we're all intrapreneurial now; mediation of two theirs of human futures who are asian - 3 surveys 1975-7 www.normanmacrae.net

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if you do the maths there are about 15 million american boys age 15-25 and about 90 million chinese girls; i have no idea whither the continent of america's sustainability depends on (though i have great hopes now the majority of under 30s are colored) but as far poorest billion women are concerned you should want to include learning with chinese girls if you are connecting the 100 sdg alumni universities of abed - hence this 80th birthday souvenir of abed given to two chinese female graduates who called off in dhaka en route to oxford rhodes and columbia u ny

DHAKA MAY 2016 SIR FAZLE ABED 80TH BIRTHDAY (before his loss to cancer)

HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY – Sor Fazle Abed, BRAC, Bangladesh

45 Years aiming to Build the Most Valuable Networks Around Sustainability Youth’s Planet

1972 lesson 1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

The seeds of BRAC were planted in the efforts of Sir Fazle and friends to assist families affected by the Brola cyclone in 1970. BRAC was then officially established after independence, supporting refugees to rebuild their lives. At a critical early juncture , we abandoned our focus on relief and adopted a longer-term objective of development, opting to work side by side with community members for decades to come.

We do not ignore emergencies and their impact on people living in poverty. We build community preparedness and grassroots platforms that activate in natural disasters to minimize damage and to channel relief. Our goal is to help households bounce back better.

Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change.

As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013.

Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries?like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago

2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures

Doctors and hospitals were scarce in Bangladesh’s early days. We created an army of community-based entrepreneurs to bring medicine to every doorstep. Over time, the army became all females, challenging social norms and enabling women to access important products and information

We challenged the global health community by putting the life saving treatment for diarrheal disease in the “unqualified” hands of mothers, and generated evidence that they could use it effectively. We created a community-based tuberculosis control model, expanding over time to become the government’s largest partner in combating the disease.

The growing numbers of people living in poverty in urban areas face serios health risks, including maternal and infant mortality. Our network of healthcare entrepreneurs continues to ensure that women can access care safely, quickly, and with dignity.

Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science have shown that focusing on early childhood development has transformative effects over a lifetime. Pilot programmes are putting this research into action at the grassroots level

The primary challenge of healthcare now is less about access and more about quality. We ?are building financial tools to continuously ensure more people can access services that meet their evolving health needs.

3 EDUCATION FROM LITERACY TO LEADERSHIP

We started by teaching basic literacy to adults, then realised we needed to start from the start.?We changed our nor-formal primary schools as “second chances’ for people living in poverty especially girls. Our pedagogy focused on joyful learning, incorporating the best practices from around the world.

As students graduated from our schools. We felt a need for creative ways to continue learning beyond the classroom. Libraries offered reading materials, and adolescent clubs created safe spaces and opportunities to teach life skills.

Our focus moved towards quality, with universal access towards education in sight, through strategies such as teacher training and increased use of technology. We proactively recruited students with special needs and expanded our curriculum into multiple ethnic languages to ensure that our schools were successful to all children.

Our ultiimate goal is to build a nation, and for that we need leaders. That is where our focus is now – creating opportunities for youth to take responsibilities in programmes, as mentors, and as teachers themselves. Our university creates even more opportunities to contribute on a global scale.

4 Financial Inclusion

We started by bringing people living in poverty together. We quickly learnt that what they needed most urgently was access to economic opportunities and financial services.

We brought women together into village organizations to organize credit and savings arrangements, and then used these meetings as a platform by delivering a wider range of services.

Over time, we expanded our reach to unserved populations, such as the “missing middle” (enterprises that were too large for the loans offered by microfinance but excluded from commercial banks) and a comprehensive grants based programme for people living with poverty, who could not benefit from microfinance.

We are now building a broader set of financial products, including insurance and pensions, and leveraging the growing ownership of mobile phones to use digital channels for financial services.

5 Market Solutions for the Poor

A fundamental driver is a lack of power – at the individual, household and community level alike... Power dynamics need to change in order for people living in poverty to realize their potential , and they only change when people do it themselves.

We promoted consciousness raising and empowerment from our earliest interactions with communities, inspired by teachings on social movements. We underestimated the complexity of power dynamics though and learned the hard way that we needed to create new organisations, where women could come together in solidarity. These community action groups became important social platforms; for example, supporting health workers who faced harassment for their services.

We widened our work over time to help people living in poverty to participate in formal government structures and leverage public services. We also increased our engagement with public official and village leaders to build wider support for women’s empowerment. These discussions have risen to the national level, where we advocate policies that support gender equality and human rights. Internally we have worked to build a female-friendly work environment and actively strive to recruit women.

Gender equality remains one of the greatest unfinished works of our generation, and an area in which we have to continue changing power dynamics. We still see that child marriage is the norm, sexual violence is pervasive, and women are under-represented in the workforce.

?6 Changing Power Dynamics

As we began to provide financial services to people living in poverty, we noticed that many rural communities did not have access to markets

We started building value chains, connecting thousands of farmers and artisans to national markets. We focused on silk, poultry, clothing and retail, in many cases the viability of new sectors in Bangladesh. The successful scaling up of one value chain often spawned new livelihood opportunities, from poultry vaccinations to artificial insemination for dairy cows.

Entrepreneurship is also a long standing part of our development approach. Over time we have built a national cadre?of local change agents, usually women, who receive training and support from us, but are paid for their services by their neighbours. These grassroots entrepreneurs distribute a wide variety of products and services, from sanitary napkins to high quality seeds.

As local and global labor markets offer new opportunities. We are supporting migrants to seek and finance work abroad safely,?and equip youth with in-demand skills

7 BRAC INTERNATIONAL

By 2002 we had over 30 years experience of piloting and perfecting programs, and scaling them to reach millions. The time had come to bring what we had learnt in Bangladesh to the rest of the world.

Relief and rehabilitation were immediate needs after war and natural disasters plunged millions into poverty in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. We focused on peace and building stability through jobs, education and financial inclusion, continuing to put girls and women at the centre of opportunities.

We expanded into Africa four years later, starting development programs in Tanzania and Uganda. We continued to pilot, perfect and scale rapidly never losing focus on contextualising every opportunity created

Opening now in 12 countries gives us a rich knowledge base to further our work in Bangladesh, while providing us with a global network in which to pilot new solutions for the world’s problems. In 2016, we create opportunities for one in every 50 people in the world. We have sought to learn from more than one in four women on mother earth.