Medhabikash : Transforming Lives

Ripple effects of Post Secondary/Tertiary Education

Higher Middle Income country

Post Secondary/

Tertiary Education

•Higher income•Social status•Skills and competencies•Benefits and pensions•Life long Learning opportunity

• Human capital•High productivity• lower birth rate•Women empowerment•Gender equity•Sensitive and responsible citizens•Greater family and social wellbeing Source Sustainable Development of Low Income Countries through Investment in

Tertiary Education: Indicative and Strategic by Asma Banu and Others

Medhabikash: A Gateway for Underprivileged Meritorious Students to access Post Secondary Education

Contributing in building pro-poor

leadership and responsible

educated citizens

Capacity building

Scholarship to access

Post Secondary Education BRAC

Vision:

……everyone

has the

opportunity

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realize th

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potential

BRAC

Visio

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……every

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SDGs, National Education Policy 2010 and Vision 2021 placed due importance on Higher Education

HSC (grade 11-12)• Undergraduate

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Comparison of Year of Schooling and Monthly Income between Med-habikash graduates and Non-Medhabikash Youth from same socio-

economic background

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*Source: UNESCO GEM Report P. 7 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001902/190214e.pdf

UN Study confirmed that every 1 year schooling associated with 10% increase in the wage earnings*.

Medhabikash : Scholarship and Operations CostBEP Phase II (2015) BEP Phase III (2016)Per student Scholarship expense per year

per student per year Operation cost

Per student Per year cost

Entire course

Per student Scholarship expense per year

per student per year Operation cost

Per student Per year cost

Entire course

HSC Girl 45,254 9318 54,572 109,144 35,100 8256 43,356 86712

HSC Boy 40,004 9318 49,322 98,644 29,850 8256 38,106 76212

Average HSC

42,629 9318 51,947 103,894 32,475 8256 40,731 81462

Undergraduate girl (4 years)

56,875 9318 67,193 268,772 48,600 8256 56,856 227,424

Undergraduate boy (4 Years)

45,875 9318 55,193 220,772 36,600 8256 44,856 179,424

Undergraduate girl (5 years)

54,800 9318 64,118 320,590 48,600 8256 56,856 284,280

Undergraduate boy (5 years)

42,800 9318 52,118 260,590 36,600 8256 44,856 224,280

2016 2017 2018 2019 20200

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50.75

58.55 59.25

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BudgetFund Raise Target

Fund Raising: Present status 2016

Med-habikash Budget

2016

Fund raise Target 2016

Already raised

Need to be raised

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10000000

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30000000

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60000000 50747,200

9,300,000

1,500,0007,800,000

New Horizons: Exploring CSR and other sources

80-85% of programme’s budget i.e. larger share of cost will be covered by BRAC’s internal fund and SPA

The rest 15% - 20% fund can be mobilized from following sources:

Education Endowment fund (Individual/institutional donation, trust)

Funding from Bangladeshi Expatriates Diaspora (Different professional expatriates groups )

Funding from CSR (MCCI, Banks, Telecom Industry)

Fund raising from International foundations/aid agencies: (Melinda

Gates fund, Ford Foundation etc)

Online fund raising: https://www.youcaring.com/nonprofit-fundraisinghttps://www.crowdrise.com/online-fundraising

Tapping Govt. fund

Public Private Partnership (PPP) Govt.International Development Association (IDA)

Medhabikash activities and Role of Staff

Selection

Communicating with Selected

Recipients

Household survey

Selection Exam Related

Activities

Postering/Call for application

Capacity Building & Follow up

Career Counseling

Tracking students after

HSC and graduation

Result Collection and

sharing

Plan, coordinate and facilitate meetings and

trainings

Individual follow up

Motivational

Regional/national conference

Inviting DEO, College/University professors, board

officials in relevant meeting for students

Guiding/counseling HSC undergraduate students

Design and facilitate

motivational session

BRAC NW 70% MB 30%

BRAC Monitor 60% BEP Monitors

40%

PACE 65%FM 25% BLD 5%

Psy Dept BU 5%

MB 70%BRAC NW 25%Procurement

5%

MB 60%Com. 10%FM 20%Support

units 10%

FM 60%MB 40%

MB 90%BIL 10%

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ase

MB 90%BIL 10%

MB 85%FM 15%

MB 75%FM 25%

MB=70%FM=30%

MB 80%PFM 20%

Strategies to Fund Raise• Wrote existing Education Endowment Funds’ donors with

financial statements for replenish of fund• Communicate with CSR unit of big

businesses/industries/banks with right channels and communication materials

• Communication Materials for CSR/ Bank • Attracting Govt. Fund through right channel• Attracting Individual donations during Festival time• Contacting different Professional expatriate organizations

for fund• Online fund raise

Knowledge Management: Tapestry of information, lesson learned analysis and human story on Medhabikash Recipients

• Database periodically update with continuing, graduates and new recipients

• Human Stories, events cover in BRAC website/Blog, Medhabikash website,internal publications, reports

http://blog.brac.net/2014/05/when-perseverance-pays-off/

http://blog.brac.net/2015/05/listening-for-the-voices-of-change-heres-some-advice-for-bangladeshs-youth/http://medhabikash.brac.net/

• RED ongoing study report• HSC Result Analysis• Information on graduatesNumber of Medhabikash Graduates by batch List of employed graduatesList of employed RAI Graduates List of students passed 34 BCS 2015

Evaluation

• Programme evaluation- --BEP Monitoring, BRAC Monitoring, RED,Financial- BRAC Audit department• Partnership--BIL, C&A

Challenges

• Building new partnership for alternative fund sources• Getting meritorious students from remote and underserved

regions (Haor areas of Sylhet division, Hill tracts of Chittagong, Barisal, small Island territories of Southern part of Bangladesh)

• Maintaining GPA 5 in HSC• Follow up of continuing and tracking of graduate students• Engaging other stakeholders like college professors to

improve their academic rigor and competence• Designing effective motivational and capacity building

training/ workshops

Key Learning• Engaging BRAC programmes in finding eligible scholarship recipients from some

underserved regions yield better result.• Capacity building opportunities increase the effectiveness and acceptance of

Medhabikash Scholarship program. • The follow up meetings do pay off in improving students’ academic performance

and result consequently.• Holding different motivational events yield better result in development of pro-

poor future leadership. • Access to higher education with this scholarship opportunity helps poor but

meritorious girl students to keep early marriage at bay.• Being a direct beneficiary of philanthropic approach through Medhabikash Udyog

students get motivated to become more socially responsible.• The students’ capabilities increase manifold as they are helping their family.• Medhabikash graduate students and undergraduate students facilitated meetings

can play a great role in guiding Junior scholarship recipients.• Promotional events like summit, workshop, seminar and print/virtual

communication materials can help the programme and its participants with motivation and can attract potential donors etc.

Thank You