CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
TALES OF CFD CREATIVITY & ACHIEVEMENT
The Centre for Development (CfD) is a proud organization for taking an initiative in January 2007 and finally connecting the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University with Anti-Poverty Champion Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen organizations via Yunus’ first visit in December 2008, followed by his second visit in July 2010 and subsequent visit in October 2012.
The Centre for Development (CfD), in association with the University of Glasgow, organized a day-long Global Assembly on 4th July 2010 marking the beginning of exciting Net Generation Decade of the 2010s - sustainable community-building system design, youth job-creation and open-source innovative entrepreneurial network - which would eventually replace the mindset of a dismal science with the joy of economics going way above zero-sum games.
Professor Muhammad Yunus delivered his interactive speech to the conference on - Tackling Poverty and Inequality for a Fairer World’. He mentioned that in creating a foothold on the basis of income-generating activity, undertaking social cause-driven entrepreneurial ventures are better approaches than welfare dependence and/or charity. He further emphasized that the ‘Grameen Way’ – ‘microcredit’ and ‘social business’ - has proved a viable solution to lift millions out of poverty. As such, the ‘bottom-up development’ is an effective approach to meaningfully promote and assist the most disadvantaged live with dignity. The landmark announcement on the launch of interdisciplinary Journal of Social Business (JSB) was made from the Conference podium, followed by JSB Inaugural Issue published in January 2011.
The Centre for Development (CfD) adopts the path illustrating and addressing the ‘real’ challenge relating redesign of sustainable systems - the notion of entrepreneurship in value-creating ‘bottom-up’ possibilities – via - increasingly important role of social enterprises and initiatives directed at empowering communities in tackling poverty, deprivation and inequalities in income, health, education, housing, etc, and assessing the impact of selfless human notion as a driver of behaviour for economic action (as for instance, charitable and philanthropic activities).