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IMPACT REPORTBRAC UKMAY 2014 – APRIL 2015

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CONTENTS

Photo on front cover: Hawa Kamara lost her parents to Ebola and was quarantined for 21 days before she was cleared. She is now looked after by a family member. Photo Credit: Rob Beechey

From the Chair 3

About BRAC 4

BRAC in numbers 5

BRAC UK in numbers 7

Health 8

Education 10

Ultra-poor 12

Agriculture and food security 14

Children at risk 16

Give to BRAC 17

Thank you 18

Statement of Financial Activities 19

Balance Sheet 20

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Welcome to BRAC UK’s impact report 2014-2015. I would like to take this opportuity to thank our donors and partners for their continued support and collaboration. Without you we would not be able to create opportunities for people to get out of extreme poverty. Together we can unlock BRAC’s potential. Please get in touch with the team if you are interested in partnership.

Last year, I referred to BRAC UK’s own ‘think big’ challenge to itself, which set in motion a strategic shift underpinned by a bold vision to have a larger footprint globally. This vision is to be realised by our new CEO, Lewis Temple, who this year began implementing an ambitious five year strategy that will impact the lives of 10 million people by 2020: educating children, empowering adolescents, enabling the very poorest to benefit from economic opportunities and ensuring access to essential reproductive, maternal and new-born health for the most marginalised communities.

BRAC UK won four new grants this year including working with the Big Lottery Fund for the first time to deliver door-to-door healthcare for mothers and babies in South Sudan, also supported by UK Aid. Our long term vision is that BRAC UK contributes to a similar trajectory in the ten additional countries we work in. With the success of the last three-year strategic targets, a dynamic and ‘think big’ board and a committed team, we are confident that we will meet our new five year strategic vision, setting us on this longer term journey.

FROM THE CHAIR

Simone Sultana

Chair of the Board

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Haiti

Sierra Leone

Liberia

South Sudan

AfghanistanPakistan

Nepal

Bangladesh

Myanmar

Philippines

Uganda

Tanzania

ABOUT BRAC

We’re the world’s largest NGO. Recognising the creativity, ingenuity and drive in each person we help them create opportunities for themselves, their families and their communities.

By reaching scale over the last 44 years, we’ve changed the face of Bangladesh. Health, education, agriculture and water and hygiene services have been improved for millions of people. By supporting BRAC you can unlock our potential to take these changes to Asia and Africa.

The heroes of our story are the people themselves, in particular women, but the challenges against them are immense. Founded in Bangladesh, we remain a southern based organisation committed to working with communities to effectively and efficiently help solve the problems they have identified.

In the UK, BRAC is establishing partnerships with local and global organisations, donor agencies, academic and research institutions and governments across Europe. Over the next five years we aim to bring life-changing services to 10 million people, concentrating on three objectives: education and empowerment, equitable economic development and access to health including water, sanitation and hygiene services.

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BRAC IN NUMBERS

Join us to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. At BRAC, we believe that poverty is neither natural nor inevitable. It’s a system that we can change.

12 COUNTRIES Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Haiti, Nepal

Reach 138 million people

Spend 819 million USD anually

Work with 110,000health workers

Employ 120,000people

Run 44,000schools

Have 323,000 safe spaces for adolescents

Reach 3.9 million with legal aid

Have 4.4 million microfinance borrowers

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Vision: a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential.

Mission: to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large-scale, positive changes, through economic and social programmes that enable men and women to realise their potential.

BRAC values innovation, inclusiveness, integrity and efficiency

Girl sits ready to learn at the Jabul Sheraj primary school in Jabul Sheraj, Parwan, Afghanistan. Photo Credit: BRAC

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BRAC UK’S NUMBERS

We’re a learning organisation. We quantify success, address failures, and fine-tune our work based on hard evidence. This year we reached 5 per cent more vulnerable people.

6 COUNTRIES Bangladesh, Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania,

EDUCATION

HEALTHCARE

REACHING THE ULTRA POOR

People received health support

Community health promoters

130,089

584

Students

Teachers

14,947

860

Received direct support

Community members benefitted

250

2,433

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY

Farmers benefitted

Agriculture or poultry entrepreneurs

86,965

1,500

URBAN STREET CHILDREN Street children getting support300

BRAC UK have assisted with applications for or grant management of grants over this year however our audited accounts show the money that goes through the BRAC UK accounts. The remaining money goes directly to BRAC International accounts.

Girl sits ready to learn at the Jabul Sheraj primary school in Jabul Sheraj, Parwan, Afghanistan. Photo Credit: BRAC

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HEALTH

Access to affordable and quality health care is a human right.

In Liberia local women self-employed as community health promoters provided information about reproductive and child health and family planning to women and men in remote villages. Staying true to our community-based approach, promoters went door-to-door and held village health forums to teach thousands of families hygiene practices and guide them to critical health services. Condom usage and knowledge of HIV has been significantly improved. In Sierra Leone we provided services which improved knowledge of and access to sexual and reproductive health and livelihood opportunities for vulnerable young people in ten slums in Freetown.

In 2015 BRAC will deliver reproductive and child health services in remote areas of South Sudan, supported by The BIg Lottery and UK Aid.

EBOLA RESPONSE

Over 11,000 people died of Ebola in West Africa. As the virus gained ground, countries came to a standstill. BRAC’s cadre of community health promoters continued to deliver hygiene and anti-stigma messages to people’s doors to help stop the spread of the disease.

BRAC UK and partners Oxfam and Médecins du Monde operated three community care centres in Neini Chiefdom, Northern Sierra Leone during the outbreak that had 138 admissions - 70 positive, 68 negative.

Baby born with support from the BRAC health team in Sierra Leone. Photo Credit: Anton Shevchenko

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KULAKO KORUMA

“I had four children, and I caught Ebola from one of them. All of my children died. I knew I was also going to die, and was totally discouraged. I was relieved when I was cleared, but I’d already lost my children to the disease. Now, I have nothing.

At the moment I have an income from working at the quarantine centre, which is now empty. It’ll be closed when we get the all clear. I don’t know how I’ll rebuild a home.”

Interventions implemented over the next year will play a crucial role in determining the future in Ebola affected countries. BRAC UK assessed five districts in Sierra Leone and recommend the following interventions:

• Accelerate recovery of the health sector• Scale up short-term food security operations and assist long-term production• Improve market access for the most vulnerable• Stimulate economic recovery by providing capital and training• Operate child protection services for those that have lost parents• Provide adolescent girls with income generation opportunites and sexual health protection

To support our existing agriculture work, two projects starting in May 2015 will improve pig production, processing and marketing in 25 rural areas of Sierra Leone and provide conditional cash transfers to women and strengthen their resilience through social safety nets and long-term food security in Koinadugo. BRAC is also delivering services in microfinance, empowering adolescents and education. Do you want to partner with BRAC for post-Ebola recovery? contact us.

WORK WITH US

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EDUCATION

Violence, displacement, and extreme poverty should not stand in the way of a child receiving an education.

In South Sudan over 7,000 out-of-school children received a quality primary education and were successfully promoted from grade two to three, 260 local female teachers received basic training and refresher courses, helping 87 per cent of students pass their annual assessments with exceeding expectations. South Sudan is a difficult context - 30 schools had to be closed in Jonglei state due to instability and children dropping out.

In Pakistan, 200 early childhood education centres in three districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province educated more than 6,000 students, more than half of whom were girls. They completed one year of pre-primary education, preparing a vast majority to go to primary school. Teachers received curriculum training as well as child welfare, child psychology, classroom management and lesson planning.

Although in KPK only 57 per cent of people over 10 years old can read, there was a rise in support and engagement for education. The attitude of male leaders in the community is receptive to girls’ primary education in the future.

Local teacher with her class in Juba, South SudanPhoto Credit: Alison Wright

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With partners around the world, BRAC is helping to shine a global spotlight on the 58 million children who are out of school globally. BRAC is a key actor in the Collaboration to Harness Resources for Girls Education (CHARGE)—a global advocacy initiative launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2014. Through CHARGE, we’ve pledged to educate 2.7 million additional girls by 2019 and enroll 311,000 more participants in our adolescent girls clubs. In 2015, BRAC also collected over 1.2 million signatures to support the Up For School petition as part of a global campaign to ensure all children left behind receive an education.

A global champion for education

WINNIE

“My parents died in 2002; they were killed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony in Northern Uganda. My father, mother and younger brother were all burnt inside our house. The rebels were butchering people with machetes and shooting people dead. From that day I became an orphan I lived with my grandmother. Then in July 2012 she also died. With my grandmother, life was not easy. We could eat once a day, sometimes we went to a nearby river to find sand that we could sell. We would heap the sand and then sell it to the builders.

That very day I was adopted by Mama Laker Josephine because she saw that I had no

relatives to take care of me. So she took me to Torit. There, she put me into the BRAC School where she was teaching. Now, I am in primary three. BRAC school is free, in fact everything is free. And now I can read and write. My favorite subjects are Maths and English. In the future, I want to become a doctor so that I will be able to help my community and also so that I can help Mama Laker to thank her for the kindness she showed me.

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ULTRA-POOR

Join BRAC to end extreme poverty in our lifetime.

Our social innovation ‘targeting the ultra-poor’ develops entrepreneurship for those living on less than 70p per day, who are predominantly women, putting them on an upward trajectory out of extreme poverty. Since its launch in 2002, the approach has graduated over 1.6 million families in Bangladesh and is now showing positive results in South Sudan.

The approach is a comprehensive, time-bound set of activities to graduate women from ultra-poverty into sustainable livelihoods. They are identified, visited once a week by BRAC and given a health check and some food. When ready, they’re given an ‘asset’ - a cow, some goats, produce to sell, seeds - and lots of training including financial literacy, accounts, management - to grow the business over two years.

In South Sudan 250 women were identified under a UK Aid supported programme. Households showed increased enrollment, health benefits, improved shelters, increased food consumption and better sanitation practicies and as assets were accumulated they diversified.

Ultra-poor groups formed for trainings in basic literacy and numeracy attended by 86 per cent of the women. Half of the group reported assisting two additional community members, reaching an additional 276 women.

Woman in Yei County, South Sudan at her small shopPhoto Credit: BRAC

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IN THE PRESS

Below are excerpts from Nicolas Kristof’s May 21, 2015 The New York Times piece,

“The Power of Hope is Real,” describing research findings on BRAC’s ultra-poor graduation model:

“An awkward truth for bleeding hearts like myself is that there has never been much rigorous evidence that outside aid can sustainably lift people out of poverty.

Sure, evidence is overwhelming that aid can overcome disease, boost literacy and save lives. But raising incomes is trickier—and the evidence in that arena has been squishier.

Now that’s changing. A vast randomized trial—the gold standard of evidence—involving 21,000 people in six countries suggests that a particular aid package called the graduation program (because it aims to graduate people from poverty) gives very poor families a significant boost that continues after the program ends.”

Read the full article here.

THE POWER OF HOPE IS REAL

Shubashini now has a yard full of cattlePhoto Credit: BRAC

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AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY

We develop the value chains necessary to build systems of production.

To tackle food insecurity and malnutrition in Tanzania, we’re training farmers on contemporary agricultural techniques and ensuring quality inputs are available for them.

Exceeding targets set to increase crop and animal production for our farmers, the project increased incomes by 238 per cent for crop farmers and 300 per cent for livestock farmers. All farmers were able to access quality inputs due to extension services being delivered to their farms. More than 11,000 women were trained as either poultry or livestock rearers.

In Sierra Leone and Liberia small holder farmers were trained to improve production and given start up kits with high-quality inputs. Through kitchen gardening and poultry rearing, women are able to provide a nutritous diet for their families and generate income.

A battalion of agriculture and poultry promoters provide services to farmers by going farm-to-farm and ensuring they can access products, vaccines and markets. There has been a significant improvement in food security and childrens’ nutritional status in 40 targeted rural areas of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Dorothy Leno and her daughter feeding their chickensPhoto Credit: Alison Wright

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HALIMA

Halima is an agriculture farmer in Tanzania cultivating tomatoes, amaranths, okra, collard and bringal in 0.5 acres land. Before joining the BRAC she was cultivating six beds month earning TZS 35000 (GBP 11).

Halima received training to be a Community Agriculture Promoter and she provides services to her neighbours. After training, she received startup inputs for her agriculture and monthly refresher trainings.

Now, her production has increased to 25 beds and 0.8 acres of land for tomato cultivation with an increase in income to TZS 130,000 (GBP 52) per month. She says,

‘I’m very happy with my agricultural production after I received training and tools - like a sprayer - from BRAC. I want more support for agro finance to increase my land under crop production. I want more training and other support in order to increase production even further. ”

SALLY

Sally used to be a subsistence farmer in Sierra Leone to feed her six children.

After working with BRAC she is able to earn SLL 520,000.00 (GBP 88) per month. With this money she feeds her family, pays school fees, provides clothing for the family, improves their nutrition, pays her rent and is meeting her family’s needs.

Sally wants to embark on large scale vegetable production, buy some land, build a small shop, build a house and continue paying university fees for her young children.

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CHILDREN AT RISK

Through improved physical health and educational opportunities, children have a better chance at increasing their skills and future prospects.

In Bangladesh, we work with vulnerable children in the slum areas around Mirpur in Dhaka. In partnership with Comic Relief we’ve promoted the health, education, and social welfare of street children. Through essential doorstep maternal, newborn, and children health services to women in slums we provided information about contraceptives, trained birth attendants, built delivery centres, and administered child immunizations. Newborns and children under-five now have vital access to health services. By establishing 35 primary schools, we’ve made it possible for vulnerable children from the slum communities to mainstream into the formal school system and continue their education.

Children living on the streets in Dhaka are at risk of harassment and physical abuse. Our work provides 300 slum children with life skills training, psychosocial support, and vocational training throughout Mirpur-1, Bhashantek and Kalyanpur in order to help them build better futures.

Tania Akher, 14, looks through a torn jute bag used as a curtain in her housePhoto Credit: Alison Wright

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GIVE TO BRAC

We work directly with communities delivering high impact at low cost. For every £1 donated to BRAC UK, 91p goes directly to development projects.

THANK YOU

Partners are crucial to the work we do. With their support we’re able to help millions of people create lasting change. We’d like to thank all of our partners for their encouragement, support and collaboration.

UK Aid (DFID)Comic ReliefDeydunCharles Hayward Foundation

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Restricted funds (£)

Unrestricted funds (£)

Total2015 (£)

Total2014 (£)

Incoming resources

Incoming resources from generated funds:

Voluntary income 600 30,155 30,755 155,610

Charitable activities 845,624 419,406 1,265,030 1,033,577

Other incoming resources - 485 485 169

Total incoming resources 846,224 450,046 1,296,270 1,189,356

Resources expended

Fundraising costs - 49,522 49,522 78,155

Charitable activities 713,705 245,310 959,015 956,612

Governance costs - 52,703 52,703 35,608

Total resources expended

713,705 347,535 1,061,240 1,070,375

Net incoming resources 132,519 102,511 235,030 118,981

Fund balances brought forward

135,135 105,440 240,575 121,594

Fund balances carried forward

267,654 207,951 475,605 240,575

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

All recognised gains and losses are included in the Statement of Financial Activities.SOFA incorporates income and expenditure accounts.

All activities during the above two financial years arose from continuing operations.The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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BALANCE SHEET

£ Total2015 (£)

Total2014(£)

Fixed assets

Tangible assets - 14,036 13,156

Total fixed assets - 14,036 13,156

Current assets

Debtors 304,323 - 26,553

Cash at bank and in hand 274,524 - 483,687

Total current assets 578,847 - 282,821

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

117,278 - 282,821

Net current assets/(liabilities) - 461,569 227,419

Net assets - 475,605 240,575

Funds of the Charity

Unrestricted funds - 267,654 135,135

Restricted income funds 207,951 105,440

Total funds - 475,605 240,575

BRAC UK have assisted with applications for or grant management of grants over this year however our audited accounts show the money that goes through the BRAC UK books. The

remaining money goes directly to BRAC International accounts.

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