Sentences with phrase «many brac»

After his native Bangladesh fought a war to become independent, Abed established BRAC (originally Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee) to aid the rural poor, including 10 million returning refugees.

When including all five of the previous BRAC rounds since the 1980s, there have been annual savings estimated at more than $ 12 billion — with nearly $ 5 billion alone from the last one in 2005.

Unlike previous BRAC rounds, though, the amendment proposed in the Senate would leave the decision of selecting the actual bases to the Government Accountability Office.

In some cases, the BRAC process could lead to the expansion of military facilities.

Previous BRAC programs were conducted by an independent commission.

About one - third of BRAC promoters are also Village Health Team workers (government community health workers).

«BRAC has 128 branches with active community health promoters (CHPs).

As discussed above, the RCT on Living Goods» program includes an evaluation of the BRAC program that it has provided technical and financial assistance to.

«BRAC seeks to experiment on improving quality at local health facilities: Data show that obstetrical care at public facilities in Uganda is very weak, leading to high maternal mortality and risks to newborns.

Living Goods - BRAC Draft Scale Up Concept Note (August 2014), Pgs 1 - 2.

Living Goods - BRAC Draft Scale Up Concept Note (August 2014), Pg 4.

The audit includes checking that a branch's stock matches up with BRAC's records of its purchases and sales, checking for drugs» expiration dates and drug shortages, reviewing a branch's financial reports, etc..

«BRAC promoters focus on immunization and family planning in addition to standard Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) activities (which largely focus on treating malaria and diarrhea, while identifying and making referrals for pneumonia).»

In total, Living Goods is seeking funding to support a budget of about $ 9.6 million per year, including costs incurred by BRAC.

Living Goods» estimates of number of children under 5 per CHP only use results from Living Goods» network, rather than incorporating results from BRAC's network.

It reports these metrics for both its directly - managed network and for the BRAC network.

If a BRAC - LG promoter registers and supports 14 pregnant women in a month, she receives 2,000 UGX (about $ 0.74).

Living Goods told us that BRAC is largely relying on Living Goods to secure funding for BRAC's portion of the Uganda scale - up.154

It found that the program reduced under - five mortality by 27 %.79 The under - five mortality effect was smaller (though still statistically significant) in BRAC branches than in Living Goods branches, but the cost per CHP was lower in BRAC branches as well.80 The authors note: 81

«BRAC and Living Goods have worked together since 2008 to build this entrepreneurial community health worker (CHW) model in Uganda.

Does BRAC contribute additional resources to its CHP program that Living Goods does not provide?

This activity is forbidden by BRAC - LG rules.»

The BRAC country office analyses and summarizes findings from these reports and discusses them at a monthly meeting.

«Big partnerships are core to our DNA as LG started as a collaboration with BRAC in Uganda.»

«During the first phase of the partnership BRAC and Living Goods experimented with differing variations in the operational model.

Advertising the position to BRAC microfinance borrowers and asking borrowers to recommend others for the position.

We summarize the details of the monitoring system BRAC described to us in this footnote.115

Although all BRAC promoters make a profit from the sale of health commodities, BRAC - LG promoters have additional incentives that BRAC - only promoters do not have (see below).

Notes from GiveWell site visit to Living Goods and BRAC, October 2014

Living Goods BRAC Partnership.

BRAC plans to gradually expand these additional program components to its other 104 branches as part of the scale - up of the LG - BRAC partnership in Uganda.»

A BRAC - LG promoter receives 5,000 UGX for escorting a sick child under 1 - year - old to a government health facility.

Based on these criteria, Living Goods is most strongly considering partnerships in Nigeria, India, Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Myanmar.164 Possible partners include PSI, Management Sciences for Health, Marie Stopes International, CARE, BRAC, Save the Children, and Plan International.165

Notes from GiveWell site visit to Living Goods and BRAC, October 2014, see «Conversations with Sharmin Sharif (Program Manager, Health, BRAC Uganda), Rakib Bhuiyan (Manager of Operations, Health, BRAC Uganda), Edgar Bakadde (Manager of Operations, Health, BRAC Uganda), and Nakigudde Anita (Regional Health Coordinator, BRAC Uganda)»

The BRAC country office designed this training based on Uganda Ministry of Health guidelines and internationally approved guidelines and procedures.

The BRAC country office summarizes findings from these reports and discusses them at a monthly meeting.116

We would like to see the same data for the BRAC network: 1) number of households with a child under 5 per village in BRAC villages; 2) number of children under 5 per household in BRAC villages; 3) number of CHPs covering the BRAC villages in the treatment group.

BRAC also told us that it is working to strengthen its procurement supply chain because its branches sometimes experience stock - outs.121

BRAC administers a written test at the end of the training program.

We learned about BRAC's monitoring shortly before publishing this report.

Our partners include BRAC, PSI, CARE, and the Clinton Foundation.

Living Goods told us that it is still in the process of determining how it will monitor BRAC's programs in the future.113

Each month, BRAC shares reports on its key performance indicators (i.e., number of malaria and diarrhea treatments provided, number of pregnancy registrations, etc.) with Living Goods.

«Monitoring reports are collected and summarized at each level of the organization and flow up all the way to the BRAC country office.

'' When PAs visit CHPs in the field, they observe their performance on household visits and check their bags to ensure that they are not selling any forbidden drugs (such as antibiotics, which BRAC is not allowed to sell).»

Living Goods began, in 2008, as a partnership with BRAC to operate a network of CHPs in Uganda, and in 2009 launched a directly - managed network of CHPs using the same model.42 Living Goods has provided both technical and financial support, totaling over $ 2 million, to BRAC for the CHP program.43 BRAC has 128 branches with active CHPs in Uganda, but only 24 of these branches currently receive significant funding from Living Goods and have additional features, such as incentive payments for CHPs and a higher number of CHPs per branch.44

The study included both villages served by CHPs managed by Living Goods and villages served by CHPs managed by BRAC.76 The researchers have published an abstract on the study, 77 and shared a more in - depth report with us.

The program will leverage LG's new fortified food product development, healthy foods from BRAC Uganda's agriculture program, and some of our partners» expert guidance on nutrition strategy.

Having recently completed the RCT, Living Goods is now aiming to rapidly scale up the networks of CHPs directly managed by Living Goods and managed by BRAC, from about 1,000 CHPs (400 Living Goods, 600 BRAC) to 6,500 CHPs (2,500 Living Goods, 4,000 BRAC).138 Living Goods shared a detailed breakdown of its scale - up plan for networks directly managed by Living Goods with us.139

«In treatment villages, Living Goods and BRAC Community Health Promoters conducting home visits, educating households on essential health behaviors and selling preventive and curative health products at 20 - 30 % below prevailing retail prices were deployed over a three - year period (2011 - 2013).»