In order to receive foreign donations, BRAC was subsequently registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh.

[16] It taught rural mothers in their homes how to prepare an oral rehydration solution (ORS) from readily available ingredients and how to use it to treat diarrhoea.

[18] The ten-year programme taught 12 million households spread over 75,000 villages in every part of Bangladesh except the Chittagong Hill Tracts (which were unsafe to work in because of civil unrest).

[20] The treatment was little known in Bangladesh when OTEP began,[21] but 15 years later it was used in rural households for severe diarrhoea more than 80% of the time, one of the highest rates in the world.

[25] BRAC's own evaluation in 1996 found "gradual improvements in the indicators such as wealth, revenue earning assets, the value of house structure, the level of cash earned, per capita expenditure on food, total household expenditure", but hoped-for improvements in village self-management had not taken place, and the drop-out rate of members was high.

[28] BRAC has done what few others have – they have achieved success on a massive scale, bringing life-saving health programs to millions of the world's poorest people.

[29][30] It provides collateral-free loans to mostly poor, landless, rural women, enabling them to generate income and improve their standards of living.

[31] BRAC founded its retail outlet, Aarong (Bengali for "village fair") in 1978 to market and distribute products made by indigenous peoples.

[34] These people suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition, have inadequate shelter, are more prone to disease, are deprived of education and are more vulnerable to recurring natural disasters.

[35] Some sources have argued that microcredit programs in Bangladesh, including those implemented by BRAC, may have unintended negative consequences for Bangladeshi women’s economic status.

Critics suggest that the financial assistance provided by BRAC might feed into perception among local elites that women no longer require extra support.

BRAC continued developing education materials over the next few decades until, eventually, beginning to design their own primary and secondary school curriculum.

[37] They incentivise schooling by providing food, allowing flexible learning hours, and conferring scholarships contingent on academic performance.

[45] BRAC has a collaboration with Nike's Girl Effect campaign to launch a new program to reach out to teenagers in Uganda and Tanzania.

These include a retail fashion chain called Aarong that sells rural handicrafts, an agricultural seed business, a dairy, and a cold storage facility, among others.

[53] Historian Taj Hashmi has criticized BRAC's projects for exploiting the cheap labour of rural women and children.