Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
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Identifies LC/NAF RWO
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Sources
found: Its Sulla project, 1976:(Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee)
found: Āinera citramālā, 1 (1991):cover (Bryāka)
found: BRAC www site, Oct. 22, 2004:(BRAC; formerly known as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee; established as a relief and rehabilitation organization in 1972)
found: Wikipedia, October 31, 2018(BRAC (organization); an international development organisation based in Bangladesh; headquarters, Dhaka, Bangladesh; largest non-governmental development organisation in the world in terms of employees, as of September 2016; established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 after independence of Bangladesh; present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as 13 other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas; known formerly as the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, then as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, and later as Building Resources Across Communities; until the mid-1970s, BRAC concentrated on community development through village development programs; in 1979 BRAC entered the health field with several programs; Non Formal Primary Education was started by BRAC in 1985; in 1986 BRAC started its Rural Development Programme; in 1991 it started its Women's Health Development program; in 1996 it started its Social Development, Human Rights and Legal Services program; in 1998 its Dairy and Food project was commissioned; in 1999 it launched an Information Technology Institute; in 2001 it established BRAC University; microfinance, introduced in 1974, is BRAC's oldest program)
found: Georgetown University website, Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, viewed October 31, 2018(Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC, formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee); a holistic development organization that works primarily in Bangladesh but also has projects in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda; the four main BRAC programs include: BRAC Economic Development Program; BRAC Social Development, Human Rights and Legal Education Services Program; BRAC Education Program; and BRAC Health Program, including one of the most successful anti-tuberculosis programs in the world)
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Change Notes
1980-06-26: new
2018-11-01: revised
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