BRAC is a development organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor and helping them to bring about positive changes in their lives by creating opportunities. The organization's priorities are: focus on women, grassroots empowerment, health and education, farmers' empowerment, inclusive financial services and self-sustaining solutions. Besides Bangladesh, BRAC spreads antipoverty solutions to 10 other developing countries. It reaches an estimated 135 million people and has over 100,000 employees worldwide.
COVID-19 relief programmes must intentionally include people living in extreme poverty to ensure a resilient and equitable economic recovery post-pandemic.
Research has shown that transforming the economic lives of the extremely poor is complex and requires coordinated, multidimensional interventions.
