CARO Global is the institutional publication platform of CARO — Care for Assets, Resources and Obligations. It publishes research, analysis, and field reports from the Global Governance Lab and CARO's programs across Bangladesh and beyond.
CARO is a Washington D.C.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 33-2441689, founded in 2023 by A.N.M. Nuruddin. Its mission: build a globally scalable, enforceable governance architecture grounded in structural fairness — not as an aspiration, but as a measurable, institutional right.
CARO's conviction is simple: people are not the problem — systems are. It treats governance the way engineers treat infrastructure: when a bridge fails, you redesign the bridge, not the drivers.
Bangladesh is CARO's proof-of-concept. Nuruddin witnessed four elections there: 2006 (never held), 2008 (credible), 2014 (153 uncontested seats), 2018 (pre-cast ballots). That personal witness drives every framework he has built. Washington D.C. is CARO's institutional base for global engagement.
CARO is currently at the Proof Stage — building the evidence base, measurement tools, and institutional presence needed to move from theory to enforceable policy. Grants received: $0. Built on 13,670 hours of volunteer labor.
CARO has developed six interlocking frameworks — in order of architecture, each built on the foundation of the last. Together they constitute a complete governance redesign from first principles.
The GGL is CARO's research division, formally launched in 2026 under Samia Sultana Ridi as GGL Incharge, with Amir Hossen as Senior Research Mentor and quality gate for all research output.
GGL produces peer-reviewed research on structural governance fairness, the Fairness Index, institutional design, and the empirical grounding of CARO's theoretical frameworks. All GGL papers carry a GGL Paper Number and undergo internal editorial review before publication.
GGL Publication No. 1: Democracy's Unfinished Architecture — Samia Sultana Ridi, May 2026.
Fairness Index V1 Baseline: OFI 1.74/5.0 (N=86) — the first empirical measurement of structural governance fairness in Bangladesh.
CARO operates through structured programs in Bangladesh, each designed to test, demonstrate, or measure aspects of structural governance fairness at scale. All 9 programs are volunteer-led.