BRAC Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) aims at achieving socio-political empowerment of the rural poor, particularly women, by enabling them to build, secure and use socio-political assets to improve their wellbeing, exercise their rights, take advantage of new opportunities and play a more active role in public life. We are directly reaching nearly one million rural women through a set of programmatic interventions in the areas of: Community Institution Building, Strengthening Local Governance, Access to Information and Addressing Violence against Women.
BRAC’s community empowerment programme believes in the need to build and strengthen community institutions and ensure stronger accountability of the local government towards the poor, especially women, in terms of their socio-political empowerment. This involves their capacity building, motivating them to raise their voice and take collective action. It strengthens the local government for poverty reduction initiatives, creates awareness and access to information, and prevents violence, particularly against women.
