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| Predecessor |
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|---|---|
| Formation | 21 March 1972 |
| Founder | Fazle Hasan Abed |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Purpose | International development |
| Headquarters | BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Key people | Asif Saleh (Executive Director, BRAC) Shameran Abed (Executive Director, BRAC International) |
Revenue (2016) |  ৳6053.7 crore (US$510 million)[1] |
| Expenses (2016) | ৳4323.3 crore (US$370 million)[1] |
Staff (2016) | 97,742[2] |
| Website | brac |
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 the 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 16 other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.[6]
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] BRAC has operations in 12 countries of the world.[7][10]
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Called BRAC, it is by most measures the largest, fastest-growing non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the world
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- ^ "Departure of an anti-poverty icon". Newsnext Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ Alice Korngold, 17 May 2011, "BRAC Is The Largest Global Anti-Poverty Organization, And It's A Secret" at fastcompany.com Archived 14 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 April 2017
- ^ Bhagat, Shalini Venugopal (1 January 2020). "Fazle Abed, Founder of a Leading Relief Agency, Dies at 83". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.