Grants and Contributions

Improving the mental well-being of students from universities, colleges, and high schools by facilitating Active Listening Sessions (ALS), Individual Counseling Sessions (ICS), and tele-counseling sessions.

The project aims to improve the health status of the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar to reduce vulnerabilities in the refugee camps and increase the utilization of comprehensive healthcare services by targeted refugees. Health services in the Rohingya refugee camps are inadequate in addressing the health-related needs of the over 900,000 refugees. Only 17% of the 200 health facilities in the camps have 24/7 access, and only three health facilities have surgical facilities. Women and adolescent girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services have also been affected by the COVID-19 lockdowns and reallocation of health care resources. These sexual and reproductive health gaps can result in avoidable maternal and infant mortality and long-term gynaecological health problems. There is a low level of understanding and awareness of sexual and reproductive health exacerbated by stigmatisation around family planning, contraception and menstrual hygiene management. This cultural issue limits women and girls’

Mapping of Media and Stakeholders in Cox’s Bazar

This project aims to empower the most underserved and disenfranchised women and girls in Bangladesh (including those with disabilities) to gain greater access to and control over resources, decisions and actions that affect their lives. The project components are designed to achieve the following goals: (1) lowering levels of extreme poverty; (2) increasing access to quality essential services for the poorest and most marginalized groups in Bangladesh; (3) creating employment opportunities for underprivileged youth, extremely poor disabled people and migrants; (4) increasing economic and social empowerment of women; (5) improving the status of women and girls and reduce violence against women girls; and (6) improving COVID-19 management by communities.

Project activities include: (1) enabling 6,650 households to graduate from extreme poverty with better sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic resilience; (2) strengthening the resilience of 17,500 climate vulnerable households; (3) providing comprehensive health and SRHR services to 100,000 people; (4) supporting 5,550 children (at least 50% girls and 2% with disabilities) to complete primary education with better learning competencies; (5) training 1,360 people with marketable skills linked to decent employment opportunities; (6) providing counseling and legal aid services to 20,750 women survivors of violence against women; (7) engaging with over 1 million people through awareness efforts on violence against women and children and prevention of child marriage; (8) producing and distributing reusable cloth masks among the low-income people to slow down community transmission of COVID-19; (9) improving protective health initiatives through community engagement and communication for better case management, infection prevention, risk reduction and awareness building; and (10) creating access to livelihood support mechanisms in post-pandemic recovery.

The speed and scale of the influx resulted in significant humanitarian needs.

With GAC’s support, BRAC provides essential primary healthcare services to Rohingya refugees, focusing on increasing health-seeking behaviour and improving care for women.

The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs.

With GAC’s support, BRAC is providing safe and equitable access to drinking water and sanitation facilities, as well as enhancing knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and protection issues, for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

This project aims to increase equitable access to safe, quality, inclusive education and learning opportunities for girls, adolescent girls, and boys, including those with disabilities, in Afghanistan.
The project also addresses the barriers to education faced by girls, such as distance to the nearest formal school and a lack of women teachers.

Project activities include: (1) establishing community-based schools for students, particularly girls, in remote and hard-to-reach areas to participate in quality learning opportunities; (2) conducting community outreach sessions to advocate for the importance and value of girls’ education; (3) installing women friendly toilets, as well as distributing dignity kits for menstrual hygiene management in schools and learning centers; and (4) recruiting and training female teachers from target communities.

The project aims to reach 30,000 children (of which 80% are girls).

This project aims to improve learning outcomes and employability for vulnerable and low-income Indigenous and Bengali girls, adolescent women and women, including the disabled, in Bandarban and Rangamati in the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of Bangladesh. Project activities include: (1) improving access to quality learning for dropouts and providing gender-responsive subject matter training to teaching assistants to teach dropouts in their indigenous language and bridge them into primary school; (2) reducing gender-based violence to ensure safe and secure communities and institutions, education administration and training officials to recognize signs of harassment; (3) developing adolescent women’s leadership skills to set up co-curricular activities in secondary schools; (4) establishing community watch groups to prevent child marriage, gender based-violence and sexual harassment; (5) enhancing employment skills, training girls and women on market-driven trades followed by job placement and informing employers on best practices creating decent work environment; and (6) raising community leaders’ awareness on the benefits of women’s participation in the labour market.

This project expects to benefit 30,000 indigenous and Bengali primary school students and 15,000 secondary students. Also, this project is estimated to reach 410 teaching assistants and 50 school management committees; and 1,230 women and men participate in skills training supported by 375 master crafts persons.

This project aims to improve access to education and learning opportunities for marginalized and vulnerable out of school children, especially girls, in South Sudan.
Project activities include: (1) establishing 300 community schools in rural and remote communities which provide alternative primary education with a focus on life skills; (2) providing training to women teachers on child centered, gender responsive and inclusive pedagogy, psychosocial support, and life skills; and (3) providing training to parents on homestead gardening and backyard poultry rearing, as well as distributing input supplies to ensure that their children do not attend school hungry.
This project works to directly contribute to Canada’s G7 Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls and Women in Developing Countries.

The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs

With GAC’s support, BRAC is helping to respond to the immediate health needs in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.