BRAC Development Institute (BDI) at BRAC University is a resource center dedicated to promote research, provide graduate training and build knowledge to address the challenges of poverty, inequity and social injustice in the global south. BDI takes an inclusive, multidisciplinary approach, across research, teaching and communications, to fulfill its mandate – to constantly challenge conventional knowledge and advance a southern voice in the global development discourse.

BDI, anchored in the basic ethos of BRAC – developing solutions to the challenges of poverty, inequity and social injustice, recognizes the following as its core functions:

• Creating knowledge;
• Convening experts;
• Incubating ideas;
• Advocating policy.