BRAC ha helped fill the vacuum sometimes left by government, taking on many of functions of good
governance - targeting public goods, providing common-pool goods and advocating for the poor.
The influence of BRAC has been so great that a popular saying in bangladesh is that "we have two governments" The formal government and BRAC. despite its size, BRAC remains very flexible. When catastrophic flooding hit the country in August 2004, BRAC temporarily reassigned virtually its entire organization relief activities.