Bangladesh • Gender Parity; Education and Skills
- Sector: Gender Parity; Education and Skills
- Headquarters Country: Bangladesh
- Operating Regions: India, Bangladesh,south asia
- Founders: Fazle Hasan Abed
- Problem Identified: fighting poverty, illiteracy and child mortality, while supporting women's health and development on a large scale in rural Bangladesh for over four decades. BRAC mobilizes the capacity of the poor to improve their own lives through self-organization.
- Solution Offered: BRAC's programmes address problems such as unemployment, environmental hazards, gender inequality, education and health. In the 1980s for example, its campaign to disseminate oral rehydration therapy for diarrhoeal disease played a major role in halving Bangladesh's infant mortality rate.
- Social Impact: BRAC’s full-time staff of 28,000 has helped 3.8 million poor women establish 100,000 village organizations. Its health programmes reach 10 million people, its non-formal schools cater to 1.2 million children (of which 70% are girls), and its microcredit programme has disbursed US$ 1.8 billion in loans with a reported 98% repayment rate. BRAC is now working in Afghanistan to support reconstruction efforts.
- Website: Brac.org
- Score: 9 BRAC - Extraordinary scale organization with comprehensive approach to poverty reduction, education, and women's empowerment across South Asia, proven impact at millions
