It has been 20 years since BRAC set foot in Tanzania as a committed partner in pioneering and scaling proven solutions to poverty and inequality.
With half its population under 30, Tanzania is a nation full of possibilities, yet almost half the country still lives on less than USD 3 per day. Since 2006, BRAC in Tanzania has been supporting the Tanzanian government and communities across the country, particularly women and young people, to break the cycle of poverty and inequality.
Since its inception in Bangladesh over 50 years ago, BRAC has worked with communities to address the causes, not merely the symptoms, of deeply entrenched poverty and social injustice.
It traces its history back to 1972, when it began as a small relief effort after Bangladesh's Liberation War. It is now one of the world's largest development organisations born in the Global South, partnering with over 145 million people across Asia and Africa.
One belief guides most of its work: poverty is multidimensional, and so it requires multidimensional solutions. This is why BRAC integrates education, health, financial inclusion, livelihoods, food security, and social enterprise, not as separate programmes, but as an inter-connected ecosystem designed to create lasting change.
