BRAC's Microfinance and Social Responsibility Initiatives

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Case Code : BECG107
Case Length : 19 Pages
Period : 1980-2009
Pub Date : 2010
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : BRAC
Industry : Microfinance
Countries : Bangladesh

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Background Note

Fazle Hasan Abed was born in 1936 in a wealthy family in pre-independence India. He studied at Glasgow and London. After completing his education, he joined petroleum company Shell in the UK. He was posted to Bangladesh in 1968 where he headed the finance department of Shell...

The Village Organizations

In 1977, BRAC began organizing poor people under Village Organizations (VO). Each VO consisted of 30-40 people. Households owning less than half an acre of land, with at least one member involved in manual labor for hundred days annually, were eligible to become a part of the VO...

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Microfinance for Moderately Poor

BRAC channeled microfinance delivery for the moderately poor as it felt that this segment was neither covered by the conventional microfinance providers, who targeted the poorest of the poor, nor the commercial banks. With the idea that the moderately poor could not be organized into a homogenous group, BRAC offered differentiated financial programs for different strata among them...

Healthcare Programs

One of the first activities that BRAC undertook, even before implementing microfinance activities in a full-fledged manner, was healthcare. BRAC started to focus on child mortality in Bangladesh, which stood at 25% in 1975...

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