BRAC is a development success story, spreading anti-poverty solutions born in Bangladesh to 11 other developing countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. It is a global leader in providing opportunities for the world's poor. Originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee and later the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, it is now formally known simply as BRAC. BRAC began as a limited relief effort for refugees displaced after the 1972 Bangladesh Liberation War. Led by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, a former accountant with a multinational oil company, BRAC employed a metrics-based approach, with continual monitoring and learning, to pilot and perfect programs before scaling them to reach millions. BRAC is a global leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to assist the most marginalized people in extremely poor, conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. BRAC uses an integrated model to change systems of inequity, through social development programs in areas such as healthcare, microfinance, and women’s empowerment, as well as humanitarian response, social enterprises, socially responsible investments and a university. BRAC's Education Program has over 30 years of experience working with governments and running schools in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings across multiple countries. BRAC prepares children and young people for fulfilling futures through early childhood development, primary and secondary schools, adolescent programs and support at the tertiary level. Outside classrooms, it operates libraries, adult education and scholarship programs. BRAC's Vision: A world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC's mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Its interventions aim to achieve large-scale, positive changes through economic and social programs that enable everyone to realize their potential.

Primary Functions

• Capacity building/Technical assistance
• Program/Project Implementation
• Research - project evaluation

Secondary Functions

• Awareness Raising/Advocacy
• Research - other

Geographic Scope

• Global / regional

Attainment

• Post-secondary
• Primary completion
• Primary enrollment
• Primary to secondary transition
• Secondary completion

Other

• Early childhood development

Other skills

• Life skills/sexuality education
• Rights/empowerment education
• Social and emotional learning
• Vocational training

Quality

• Curricula/lesson plans
• School quality
• School-related gender-based violence

Skills

• Literacy
• Numeracy

Website

BRAC

Headquarters location(s)

• Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Office location(s)

• Bangladesh
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America