Category: Academic Blogs
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What is Community Development
To understand what is community development, lets learn what is a community First. A Community is a social unit that shares commonalities such as norms, religion, customs, values and identity. Communities share a sense of place situated in either geographical area or in virtual space through communication. Community development is “a process where community members…
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WaterAid Bangladesh
WaterAid Bangladesh started its work in 1986. It has successfully collaborated with 21 organizations in Bangladesh up to now, to alleviate the sufferings from scarce water supply and low sanitation standards in poverty-plagued villages. Read Previous Part With WaterAid Bangladesh rendering their help in the technical field, The Village Education Resource Centre (VERC) introduced the…
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How did our ancestors live? Foraging, Horticulture, Pastoralism
Foraging: Foraging is the oldest form of livelihood of mankind, in fact, it is a trait that we share with our primate ancestors. But in modern time, foraging has been reduced to remote tribes living in tropical forests, mountains and tundra environments where another livelihood is difficult to maintain or has not been introduced to…
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WaterAid- Mission, Vision, History and More
WaterAid is a non-Government development organization founded in 1981 as a response to the UN International Drinking Water decade (1981–1990). It focuses on SDG-6 which is “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” and works in 34 countries to provide clean water and sanitization in rural or remote areas. Now, let’s…
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Microenterprise Credit Scheme In Bangladesh By Grameen Bank
Introduction: The idea of microcredit can be traced back to the 50s when Akhter Hamid Khan, a social scientist and development practitioner tried the Comilla model that included lending group loan as a community-based development initiative planned to help the rural population. However, the initiative failed to get any significant success due to involvement of…
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A Report on the Biodiversity of Bangladesh
Bangladesh Biodiversity: The word biodiversity consists of two words, biological and diversity. The term refers to the variety and changing state of living things such as plants and animals in any given ecosystem. It effects the stability of the whole ecosystem and because of that, biodiversity is really important for a thriving ecosystem thus it…
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Six Indicators of Good Governance and The Position of Bangladesh
Introduction: Governance consists of the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised. This includes the process by which governments are selected, monitored, and replaced. The capacity of the government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies, the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social…