A world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential.
Our mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large scale, positive changes through economic and social programmes that enable men and women to realise their potential.
Integrity. Innovation. Inclusiveness. Effectiveness.
BRAC believes that poverty is a system and its underlying causes are manifold and interlinked. Some of these linkages are obvious, for example, a day’s wage forgone because of illness or resources lost to a natural disaster. Others play a more indirect role in perpetuating poverty, such as lack of awareness about laws and rights can lead not only to outright exploitation, but also encourage a lack of accountability on the part of the state to cater to its most vulnerable citizens.
In order for the poor to come out of poverty, they must have the tools to fight it across all fronts. We have, therefore, developed support services in the areas of human rights and social empowerment, education and health, economic empowerment and enterprise development, livelihood training, environmental sustainability and disaster preparedness.
We operate social enterprises that are strategically connected to our development programmes, and form crucial value chain linkages which increase the productivity of our members’ assets and labour, and reduce risks of their enterprises. These enterprises, ranging from agriculture to handicrafts, also help to make us increasingly self-reliant.
Gender equality, respect for the environment and inclusivity are themes crosscutting all of our activities.
To ensure that we are always learning and that our work is always relevant, we have put in place training, research and monitoring systems across all our activities and financial checks and balances in the form of audits. As a knowledge centre, we have opened our doors to the wider public in an effort to develop national capacity in Bangladesh through BRAC University.
But what we really do is best portrayed in the true life stories of those who make the real changes.
Year | Award | Recipient |
2017 | Knight Commander of the Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption | BRAC |
Jose Edgardo Campos Collaborative Leadership Award 2016 (South Asian Region) | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed | |
2016 | Honorary Degree of Doctor of Education, University of Bradford | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed |
Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed | |
2015 | The World Food Prize | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed |
World Toilet Organization Hall of Fame Award | BRAC | |
2014 | ||
Global Justice Innovation Award | BRAC | |
Trust Women Hero Award | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG | |
Spanish Order of Civil Merit | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG | |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, The University of The South | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG | |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Princeton University | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG | |
Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG | |
2013 | GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children Healthcare Innovation Award | BRAC |
World Justice Project Rule of Law Award | BRAC | |
Central European University Open Society Prize | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG | |
2012 | Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, The University of Manchester | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG |
2011 | Inaugural WISE Prize for Education | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG |
2010 | Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, University of Bath | Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG |
2009 | Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) | Fazle Hasan Abed |
Entrepreneur for the World Award (in Social Entrepreneur category) | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, University of Oxford | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Honorary Degree of Doctor in Humane Letters, Rikkyo University | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
SAFA Best Presented Accounts and Corporate Governance Disclosures Award | BRAC | |
ICAB National Award for Best Published Accounts and Reports | BRAC | |
2008 | Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian Prize | BRAC |
David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Columbia University | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
SAFA Best Presented Accounts Award | BRAC | |
ICAB National Award for Best Published Accounts and Reports | BRAC | |
2007 | Bangladesh Swadhinota Puroshkar (Independence Award) | BRAC |
Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize | BRAC | |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Yale University | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Palli Karma Shahayak Foundation (PKSF) Lifetime Achievement in Social Development and Poverty Alleviation | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
SAFA Best Presented Accounts Award | BRAC | |
ICAB National Award for Best Published Accounts and Reports | BRAC | |
2006 | CGAP Financial Transparency Award | BRAC |
SAFA Best Presented Accounts Award | BRAC | |
ICAB National Award for Best Published Accounts and Reports | BRAC | |
2004 | UNDP Mahbub ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Development | Fazle Hasan Abed |
Gates Award for Global Health | BRAC / Fazle Hasan Abed | |
ICAB National Award for Best Published Accounts and Reports | BRAC | |
2003 | Honorary Degree of Doctor in Education, The University of Manchester | Fazle Hasan Abed |
Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award | Fazle Hasan Abed | |
Recognised as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship | Fazle Hasan Abed / BRAC | |
2001 | Olof Palme Prize | Fazle Hasan Abed |
1998 | InterAction (American Council for Voluntary International Action) Humanitarian Award | Fazle Hasan Abed |
1994 | Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Queen's University at Kingston | Fazle Hasan Abed |
1992 | UNICEF Maurice Pate Award | BRAC |
1990 | Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award | BRAC |
1985 | UNESCO Noma Prize for Meritorious Work in Literacy (Honourable Mention) | BRAC |
1980 | Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership | Fazle Hasan Abed |
Bangladesh/Headquarters: BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212.
Tel: 880-2-9881265. E-mail: info@brac.net