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BRAC is an international development organisation based in Bangladesh. In order to receive foreign donations, BRAC was subsequently registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh. BRAC is the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world, in terms of number of employees as of September 2016.[3][4][5] Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as 11 other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.[6]

BRAC

BRAC Logo

Predecessor

Building Resources Across Communities

Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

Formation

1972

Founder

Fazle Hasan Abed

Type

Non-profit

Purpose

International development

Headquarters

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Revenue (2016)

Increase৳6053.7 crore (US$720 million)[1]

Expenses (2016)

Increase৳4323.3 crore (US$510 million)[1]

Staff (2016)

97,742[2]

Website

brac.net

BRAC states that it employs over 90,000 people, roughly 70 percent of whom are women, and that it reaches more than 126 million people with its services.[7][8][9] The organisation is partly self-funded through a number of social enterprises that include a dairy and food project, a chain of retail handicraft stores called Aarong, seed and Agro[clarification needed], and chicken. BRAC has operations in 11 countries of the world.[7][10]

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