25 Years of Brac Research: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Shayna L Storm
October 2001
Since 1975, research and evaluation has been an inextricable part of BRAC's mission, providing an analytical basis for BRAC's programmatic decisions, allowing BRAC to learn from its mistakes, and helping BRAC to share the impact and lessons from its work with academics, NGOs, and development agencies around the world. Probably the largest NGO research division in the world, the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) undertakes many of its studies in cooperation with international research and academic institutions of the highest caliber….

RED Annual Reports

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Researchers at RED

RED is powered by over twenty full time researchers drawn from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to provide research support to the multi-dimensional development programmes of BRAC....

Useful links and development research web resources

Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC)
Chronic Poverty Research Centre is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists, to focus attention on chronic poverty,  to stimulate national and international debate, to deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty, and to provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction. CPRC was established in 2000. 
 
Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh
The programme seeks to make efforts to reduce poverty in Bangladesh more effective by deepening the understanding of those who are chronically poor, of the processes that keep them in poverty and of the policy measures that will help them to overcome poverty and vulnerability. This goal is to be achieved by the production and dissemination of policy relevant research findings to government agencies, donors and civil society and by developing the capacity of Bangladeshi research institutions to undertake research on chronic poverty.

Eldis: The Gateway to Development Information 
Eldis is an internet based information service: filtering, structuring and presenting development information via the web and email. It maintains an ever-growing library of editorially selected and abstracted online documents, and an organisational directory of development-related internet services.

Microfinance Gateway
The Microfinance Gateway is the most comprehensive online resource for the microfinance industry. It includes research and publications, specialized resource centers, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance.

ANTRIEP
ANTRIEP a network of national institutions in Asia with a vision to create synergy between the participating institutions in order to reinforce their capacities to respond to the growing and increasingly diversified needs for skill development in educational planning and management in the region.

Economic Research Group (ERG)
ERG is a not-for-profit organization established for promoting education and research with a view to improving economic justice in society. ERG seeks to bridge the gap between academic research and policy analysis within the context of Bangladesh and other countries of South and Southeast Asia. It intends to extend the frontier of knowledge on developing economies by undertaking analytical research and promoting exchange of views on contemporary issues.