BRAC ranked world’s no. 1 NGO for 5th consecutive year
BRAC, Bangladesh-based leading development organisation, has been ranked the world’s number one non-governmental organisation (NGO) of 2020.
BRAC retained its top spot for the fifth consecutive year. BRAC shares the top five places with several high-impact peers, including Medicins Sans Frontiers, Danish Refugee Council, Open Society Foundations, and Mercy Corps.
NGO Advisor, an independent Geneva-based media organisation, ranked the BRAC top organisation. NGO Advisor publishes rankings for the top 500 global NGOs each year, drawing upon publicly-available data and focusing on impact, innovation, governance, and sustainability as key factors informing the rankings.
“We are deeply grateful and humbled to receive this accolade. The 2020 will be the first year for BRAC family without our founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. We take this recognition as a reminder to be worthy of his legacy and continue the fight for a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination,” said Ameerah Haq, chair of BRAC Global Board.
The 2020 will be the first year for BRAC family without our founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. We take this recognition as a reminder to be worthy of his legacy and continue the fight for a world free from all forms of exploitation and discriminationAmeerah Haq
The press communiqué also said after nearly five decades of experience in Bangladesh and beyond, BRAC recently announced a new 2030 strategy that prioritises scaling up its global reach, targeting participants with multiple interventions, and developing collaboration and knowledge-sharing leadership across the development sector. In 2019, it formed a new Global Board to lead and implement this strategy.
“In the BRAC Global Strategy, Sir Fazle has set an audacious goal for us, empowering at least 250 million people to have control over their own livelihoods by 2030. We’ll keep striving every day to make his vision a reality,” Haq added.
We have reason to believe that BRAC is on its way to pay a sustainable tribute to its founder by keeping its leading, driving role in the social profit sector
“This 2020 list is launched with excitement as the social profit sector keeps growing and transforming the world, but also with sadness as the founder of BRAC, Sir Fazle, passed away in 2019,” said Jean-Christophe Nothias, editor-in-chief and CEO of NGO Advisor.
“He was a man of outstanding stature and humanity; he was at the forefront of systemic changes we are still aiming for. We have reason to believe that BRAC is on its way to pay a sustainable tribute to its founder by keeping its leading, driving role in the social profit sector,” Christophe added.