Afghanistan

Scaling quality, inclusive, and joyful learning for all.

BRAC prioritises joyful learning using engaging approaches. We believe that education is a fundamental right. We take a community-driven approach to ensure access to education in some of the hardest-to-reach areas.

In Afghanistan, we used this approach to ensure girls could continue learning even when schools were far from their homes or when bans stopped them from accessing education. Our community-driven network of programmes includes pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels. This includes accelerated learning for girls who have dropped out or never attended school.

Ensuring everyone has the tools to recover and rebuild.

BRAC Afghanistan supports communities by helping them meet their basic needs and build more stable futures. While providing urgent humanitarian aid when needed, we also focus on long-term support. Women receive training, tools, mentoring, and funding to start and grow their businesses. We also help communities increase climate resilience through risk reduction structures.

A proven pathway out of extreme poverty.

BRAC’s flagship Ultra-Poor Graduation approach is a globally recognised and widely adopted solution proven to break the poverty trap. Graduation enables people to build a long-term trajectory out of extreme poverty through a time-bound package of sequenced interventions. This combines a large investment in income-generating activities, basic needs support, and ongoing, intensive coaching.

Bringing critical care to the last mile.

Within a year of starting our work, BRAC Afghanistan began strengthening the health system, especially for people living in remote areas and situations of extreme poverty. We were the first organisation in Afghanistan to widely employ women as community health workers. They provide life-saving care, including nutrition support for pregnant women and new mothers. Our programmes also deliver care to marginalised populations, such as internally displaced people.