UK Report 2018 Contents “Pragmatic, adaptive, BRAC can now play any game, whether using for-profit or non-profit approaches, to face and challenge systems of inequity. said NGO Advisor 4 – 5 About BRAC 20 BRAC Priority – Eradicating extreme poverty in its review of BRAC 6 A message from BRAC UK leadership 21 BRAC Priority – Youth and Skills ˮ 7 – 9 BRAC UK Projects – Education and 22 BRAC Priority – Disability Inclusion Empowerment 23 BRAC Priority – Safeguarding 10 – 14 BRAC UK Projects – Equitable Economic 24 Update on our 5 year strategy Development 25 – 30 Structure, Governance and Management 15 – 17 BRAC UK Projects – Wellbeing and 31 – 33 The Auditors opinion In 2018 BRAC was ranked as the number one NGO Resilience 34 Finances: Statement of financial activities in the world for the third consecutive year by the 18 A summary of BRAC UK’s projects 35 Finances: Balance sheet Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent media in 2018 36 Finances: Statement of cash flows organisation committed to highlighting innovation, 19 BRAC Priority – The Rohingya Crisis 37 – 49 Notes to the financial statements impact and governance in the non-profit sector. 5 About BRAC BRAC’s Programmes BRAC reaches 120 million people in 11 countries Ultra Poverty Education and Youth Health We implement a large-scale poverty Our education and skills To meet the needs of vulnerable BRAC is a global leader in BRAC employs more than 110,000 graduation programme to reach development programmes support communities, we developed our developing and implementing people in 11 countries, with a the poorest people and help them youth from backgrounds of poverty essential healthcare programme, cost-effective, evidence based total global expenditure of more achieve a sustainable livelihood from cradle through career. facilitated through a network of programmes to assist the most than £750 million. More than 75% in two years. To address extreme We prepare them for fulfilling community health workers. We marginalised people in extremely percent of its budget in Bangladesh poverty globally, we advise and train futures through early childhood deliver community-based services, poor, conflict prone, and post- is self-financed through its own governments, nonprofits, and UN development, pre-primary, primary, with a focus on maternal and child disaster settings. These include activity, including social enterprises entities to adapt and implement our and secondary schools, adolescent health, infectious diseases, nutrition, initiatives in education, healthcare, and microfinance. However, much approach. Studies show BRAC’s empowerment, skills development, family planning, mental health, microfinance, women’s and girls’ of BRAC’s most important work— methodology significantly improves and higher education at BRAC non-communicable diseases, empowerment, agriculture, human including its schools, healthcare, the income and well-being of University. and much more. and legal rights, and more. ultra-poor graduation programme, participants for years after they and most of its programmes outside complete the programme. 1.1M children currently enrolled 100M people receive health Bangladesh—remains reliant on in BRAC schools services outside donors. 1.9M households completed the programme in Bangladesh UK Where we work Afghanistan Netherlands Pakistan Agriculture Financial Inclusion Social Enterprises We provide inputs such as seeds With 7 million borrowers, we are one Our social enterprises are designed and fertilizer, and training for of the world’s largest microfinance to help people in poverty by USA Nepal farmers to improve their yields and providers. Access to financial creating access to markets. These Bangladesh profits. We link supply chains that services is an essential tool, businesses are also structured Myanmar enable farmers to access markets especially for women in poverty. to be financially sustainable. Our and sell their goods at a higher Microfinance works in tandem with enterprises include a high-end BRAC USA and BRAC UK price, with the goal of improving other programmes to increase fashion retailer that sources from Philipines are independent affiliates. food security and nutrition while clients’ economic independence. rural artisans and a dairy company also fostering economic growth. Our mobile money platform, bKash, that purchases milk from women Stichting BRAC International is one of the largest in the world, farmers. is the registered office of Liberia South Sudan 620K farmers trained and reaching more than 28 million clients. BRAC International, based Tanzania equipped 76% of BRAC’s budget in the Netherlands. Sierra Leone Uganda 7M microfinance clients in Bangladesh is self-financed 6 7 BRAC UK Projects A message from Education and Empowerment BRAC UK leadership BRAC UK aims to enable out of school children to access quality education and reintegrate into mainstream school, and empower adolescent girls. 2018 was a challenging but rewarding year for BRAC UK with our continued response to the Rohingya Crisis, one of the foremost humanitarian crises of our time. We also secured a number of exciting new projects, whilst some of our older projects came to an end. The Rohingya Crisis BRAC is proud to have delivered the largest and most comprehensive civil society response to the Rohingya Crisis to date. We have more than 4,200 full-time staff and volunteers in Cox’s Bazar, including more than 1,600 from the Rohingya population and 1,900 from host communities. Our response has been rapid, flexible and inclusive, providing holistic services to ensure the day-to-day living needs are met and promoted livelihood/self-reliance opportunities for the long-term well-being energy to Tanzania through solar meet their needs. It is a wonderful of the population affected. lighting whilst providing livelihood example of a large development Education BRAC’s ‘one room-one teacher’ Tanzania. BRAC UK continues BRAC UK has secured significant opportunities for young women. organisation working with a Disabled BRAC UK projects seek to community-based school model, to build on this work and expand donations to support our Similarly, we are bringing industry Persons Organisation (DPO) to enable children to access quality BRAC UK supports innovations to additional countries. BRAC’s response from the World Memon specific skills training to Nepal ensure people with disabilities are education and be reintegrated into in sustainable education models practical approach to realising Organisation, Vitol Foundation through our partnership with also included. mainstream schooling. BRAC UK and developments in Public Private the rights of marginalised people and Cartier Philanthropy amongst Signify, therefore making the youth 2019 is going to be an exciting supports the scaling of education Partnerships to help schools through ‘barefoot’ legal services others, and we thank them for their of Nepal most employable whilst year for BRAC UK, as we look services with a particular focus graduate from grant funding. and advice and information generous support. increasing the number of skilled to implement these innovative on post-conflict countries, which services has gained recognition electricians in the country. projects and create life changing have limited government capacity Empowerment in Bangladesh. There is significant Innovation at BRAC We are also innovating through opportunities for the world’s poor. to educate all children of school BRAC has successfully developed need for similar services in The most striking aspect of our new partnership. For example, we are age. Interventions are time limited a ground-breaking model that other BRAC countries, and projects are the innovative solutions working with Humanity & Inclusion Lewis Temple whilst we work with governments has been proven to impact the BRAC UK supports the process they provide to long established to ensure BRAC’s programmes Chief Executive and and local organisations to build life chances of adolescent girls of developing these services problems. The WESOLVE project, provide services and solutions which Simone Sultana, capacity and resources to provide currently working in South Sudan, and adapting them to fit for example, is going to bring clean include people with disabilities and Chair of Trustees education themselves. Building on Uganda, Sierra Leone and local contexts. 8 9 Sustainable primary Sustainable Early school education Childhood Development in Bangladesh in Tanzania BRAC launched the Shishu Niketon Our project addresses the is low quality, under-resourced, by developing a ‘Hub & Spoke’ programme in 2014, as a new significant gaps in Early Childhood unregulated and inaccessible to business model for the provision of initiative piloting a cost-sharing Development (ECD) services in most children from low-income low-cost, high quality and scalable model of primary education. It Tanzania. ECD is critical for every households, with no state provision play-based ECD - improving the seeks to target families whose level child’s development; under- for 3-5 year olds. In spite of this, cognitive, physical, socio-emotional of income makes them ineligible for stimulation can have a negative demand continues to grow with and language development of BRAC’s existing non-formal primary impact on physical, emotional, a willingness to pay for low-fee children aged 3-5 from low income schools, yet who are unable to cognitive and intellectual advances ECD services, especially in Dar es families in Dar es Salaam. afford private schooling. later