The following excerpt is from a piece that originally appeared in TIME. Read the full piece.
Following last year's drastic cuts in foreign aid spending, some people have called for a better model for global aid. BRAC, and its executive director Asif Saleh, might have an answer.
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"We analyze problems and we work with the community to see which tools they would need to change their own lives," Saleh says. Its locally led approach, he says, sets it apart from Global North-driven development, where programs are traditionally designed in cities like D.C. or London, far away from where the problems exist.
"Development is not charity," Saleh says. "Charity is something that you give to people where people are passive recipients of it. And what we promote is the opposite, where people are active participants in everything that we do."
