20th century intelligence - ending poverty of half world without electricity -although Keynes 1936 (last capter general theiry money inetrest emplymen) asked Economists to take hipocrati oath as the profession that ended extreme poverty, most economists did the opposite. Whats not understandable is how educatirs failed to catalogue the lessons of the handful who bottom-up empowered vilages to collaboratively end poverty. There are mainly 2 inteligences to understand- Borlaug on food; fazle abed on everything that raised life expectancy in tropical viage asia from low 40s to 60s (about 7 below norm of living with electricity and telecomes). Between 1972 and 2001, Abed's lessons catalogued in this mooc had largelu built the nation of Bangladesh and been replicated with help of Unicef's James Grant acroo most tropical asian areas. What's exciting is the valley's mr ad mrs steve jobs invted Fazle Abed to share inteligences 2001 at his 65th birthday party. The Jobs and frineds promised to integrate abed's inteligence into neighborhod university stanfrd which in any event wanted Jobs next great leap the iphone. The Valley told abed to start a university so that women graduates from poor and rich nations could blend inteligence as Abed's bottom of the pyramid vilage began their journey of leapfrog modles now that gridd infarstructures were ni longer needed for sdiar and mobile. Abed could also help redesign the millennium goals which were being greenwashed into a shared worldwide system coding frame by 2016. There re at Abed's 80th birtday party , the easy bitwas checking this mooc was uptodate. The hard bit - what did Abed mean by his wish to headhunt a taiwanese american to head the university's 3rd decade starting 2020?

Saturday, August 15, 2020

5.2 bis 4.1 bis HRLS barefoot lawyers

 

In 1985  BRAC initiated its Human Rights and Legal Aid Services[i] (HRLS) , using an empowerment approach based on education, a cadre of legal outreach workers, and legal aid clinics aimed at protecting the rights of the most vulnerable and halting violence against women and girls. A decade later the effort was expanded to include gender justice training and outreach. Up to 5% of brac’s total staff emerged as community outreach workers or “barefoot lawyers” with hundfeds of legal aid clinics where vulnerable populations understand their rights and advocate for a better quality life. It can be hugely instructive to search any asian nation applying barefoot to a range of professions or creative services- whilst the roles developed in any goal 1 poverty ending nation have diverse and nuanced differences this will give you insights into the fabric of society , infrastructure flows both physical and digital and conscousness that top down masters of administration never see as vital adaptive opportunities. If the UN is to end greenwashing of sustainability goals the celebration let alone the safety of barefoot climate lawyers, barefoot health lawyers, barefoot digital wizards will need to be integrated into any transformative sdg movement.


[i] An example pf searching brac barefoot lawyers leads to authoritative reports such as https://www.openglobalrights.org/funding-for-human-rights-brac-experience/


BRAC Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (HRLS) programme is dedicated to protecting and promoting human rights of the poor and marginalised through legal empowerment. HRLS operates 517 Legal Aid Clinics in 61 of 64 districts across Bangladesh and is the largest NGO- led legal aid programme in the world.

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Corinne Henchoz Pignani. Deputy Head of Cooperation, Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh

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