About BRAC Economic Development

BRAC’s microfinance programme has cumulatively disbursed over USD 5 billion and serves over 6 million poor and landless people. Ninety-eight percent of BRAC’s microfinance members are women, and these members belong to 170,000 Village Organisations (VOs) that BRAC has created to serve as a forum where the poor can collectively address the structural impediments to their development, receive credit, mobilise savings and build upon their social capital. More…

Economic Development programme operates in following countries:

Bangladesh

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Liberia

Sierra Leone

Southern Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

And consists of following components:

Microfinance

Targeting Extreme Poverty

Empowering Adolescents