Month long Lab in field experiment held at Gaibandha

Nikolai Armand Schaffner who is a researcher from Oxford University has visited and conducted Lab in field experiment at Gaibandha Project Office. He was here to work with the research project titled ‘Micro equity and Mentorship for Online Freelancing Based Micro Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh’. This project considers as an innovative new microfinance product, based on the principles of equity financing, in which promising potential entrepreneurs are provided with capital, training and mentorship to help them become online freelancers. He has stayed at Gaibandha for a month-long from 8^th September, 2019 to 6^th October, 2019 and visited the project locations. He has worked with potential micro entrepreneurs who passed the screening stage for our online freelancing project. He has also subsequently conducted 17 session regarding lab in field experiment where ten freelancer participated each of the session. Mr. Nikolai also presented as the key note speaker in a capacity development workshop organized by Corporate Office in Dhaka. He delivered his valuable speech about lab in field experiment and challenges of using software at field.