TITLE:
Cultivating Social Innovations: Lessons from the Bangladesh Case
AUTHORS:
Zulker Nine, Hongyi Chen
KEYWORDS:
Social Innovation, Non-Government Organization, Bangladesh
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.4 No.5,
May
16,
2016
ABSTRACT: Despite the social
and economic challenges, Bangladesh has shown significant improvement in the
basic condition of people’s lives in the past twenty years. The dramatic change
lies in the success of many innovations happened in different sectors of the
Bangladesh society. In the healthcare sector, projects such as the community
health service program greatly improved the health of rural people, especially
the maternal and children, in creative ways. These social innovation projects,
usually initiated and implemented by non-government organizations throughout
the history, have become an inherent part of rural life and played a big role
in the economic empowerment of Bangladesh. By examining the environment and
process of these social innovations, we draw a valuable lesson to shed lights on
how social innovations can be best cultivated to improve the welfare of the
affected population.