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BRAC reforms management

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed puts new faces on decision-making panel

Star business report
Development organisation BRAC has redesigned its management structure as part of its efforts to institutionalise its various activities and facilitate the decisionmakingprocess.
The changes, which took place during June-July, gave new roles to young minds to enhance performance and effectiveness.
For instance, a new designation — senior director --replaced the post of deputy executive director. Three current directors, Asif Saleh, Tamara Hasan Abed and Dr Babar Kabir, have been elevated to the position.
They are part of the newly introduced executive management committee (EMC), BRAC’s supreme decision-making body, which also comprise current executive director, managing director, chief financial officer and BRAC International's senior director.
Sir Fazle Hasan
Abed, the iconic founder and currently chairperson of the BRAC and BRAC International boards, is the chairman of the committee.
“A process of institutionalisation within BRAC has been going on for six to seven years. The new committee has been formed to promote collective leadership," Saleh said.
The EMC is responsible for all major strategic and policy decisions and alignment of the different arms of BRAC.
The move to free BRAC’s governing body from the day-to-day activities and focus solely on governance follows the path of many organisations in Bangladesh which of late have become leader-centric. The restructuring came also because of instructions from Microcredit Regulatory Authority, the staterun organisation overseeing the activities of the country's microcredit organisations, which stipulated a maximum of 10 board members.
Mushtaque Chowdhury, a senior adviser of the Rockefeller Foundation, who previously worked at BRAC for 35 years, will join in November as the board's new vice-chairperson, a role just below Sir Abed.
BRAC was founded in 1972 as Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, with the aim to rebuild the war-torn Bangladesh.
It was renamed to Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee the following year.
Apart from Bangladesh, BRAC has operations in 10 countries -- Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Liberia with invitations to open operations in more countries.