Humanitarian and emergency response

Preparedness is embedded into BRAC’s humanitarian programming by integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies into development and financial inclusion initiatives. Communities we work with strengthen their capacities to anticipate and be resilient to face future crises.

Locally-led humanitarian response mechanisms are facilitated through developing country-specific contingency plans and strengthening team capacities. We support local teams to identify and engage relevant community-based organisations in times of crises, and deliver robust response mechanisms while ensuring protection, accountability, safeguarding and coordination.

Robust humanitarian programming engages groups who face heightened vulnerabilities during crises, including the elderly, children, women and people with disabilities. We adhere to inclusive design principles, and establish mechanisms that prioritise their access to decision-making and feedback chain at every stage of the programme cycle.

We embed humanitarian response into health, food security, early childhood development and education, and financial inclusion interventions. This integration with development programming enables people to better recover from crises and create long-term solutions within their communities, thereby strengthening and sustaining resilient practices.

Communities have long practised localised response mechanisms to confront crises. We collaborate with local governments, community-based groups and organisations to foster ownership, scale local knowledge, and enhance their access to essential emergency supplies, tools, resources and funding.