Exploratory study on BRAC's NGO cooperation project
Citation
Karim , F., Begum, S. A., Chowdhury, K., & Chowdhury, A. (2000, August). Exploratory study on BRAC’s NGO cooperation project. Research Reports (2000): Social Studies, Vol – XXV, 13–31.Abstract
BRAC embarked on an NGO Cooperation Project to enhance efficiency of the
small and medium NGOs in effective micro-finance management vis-a-vis augmentation of
micro-finance activities for poverty alleviation. The newly set up NGO Cooperation Unit (NCU)
at BRAC facilitates the implementation of the project. The NCU extended support to 74 NGOs
(hereinafter called partner organisations or POs) between 1995 and 1999. Of the 74 POs, 59 were
given both training and credit support, while 13 only training. BRAC disbursed maximum Tk.
1,400,000 to each PO as credit in 12 installments. For this BRAC charged 5% service charge
from the recipient POs per annum.