Narayanganj Located in central Bangladesh, Narayanganj is part of Dhaka, with an area of 760 square kilometres. About 34 kilometres away from the nation’s capital, Narayanganj is located on the banks of the Shitalakshya river. It is one of the major hubs of business and industry in Bangladesh, especially for jute trade, processing plants and the textiles sector. Photo credit: BRAC BRAC operates a majority of its programmes in Narayanganj Happy students of BRAC primary school including microfinance, education (BEP), health, nutrition and population (HNPP), water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), human rights and legal aid services WASH (HRLS), community empowerment At a glance Sanitation coverage 91% (CEP), and gender justice and Deep tubewells installed 171 As of December, 2014 diversity (GJD). Among them Sanitary latrines microfinance largest programme in installed in school 30 the area, covering approximately Microfinance Loans for sanitary latrines 1,896 100,000 clients. Additionally, WASH Village organisation (VOs) 1,670 has achieved 91 per cent sanitation Member 123,463 HRLS coverage in Narayanganj. Borrowers 75,852 Human rights and legal education Progoti (HRLE) shebikas 138 Small enterprise clients 15,050 HRLE graduates 33,671 General information Legal aid clinics 5 BEP Population 2,095,000 Primary schools 460 CEP Pre-primary schools 130 Unions 41 Groups/members 60/3,600 Adolescent development Villages 1,374 Community educators 3,260 programme (ADP) centres 37 Children (0-15) 67,000 Schools/students 40/12,000 Community libraries 31 Primary schools 1,425 Student watch groups/members 40/1,000 Literacy rate 52% HNPP Community watch Hospitals 6 group/members 40/600 NGOs 35 Health workers 117 Health volunteers 1,034 Banks 40 Social enterprises Bazaars 199 Aarong Outlets 1 Although every effort has been made to include and verify the accuracy of relevant information in this fact sheet, users are urged to check independently on matters of specific interest. Report any discrepancies/suggestions to [email protected]. This document was last updated on 31 December 2014, is revised yearly and made available on www.brac.net/visitors..