Implemented Education Project

 Assignment name: Post Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development Project-1(PI-NGO) under the Ministry of Primary & Mass Education.

Approx. value of the contract (in current US$ or Euro): Euro:192,300

Country: Bangladesh

Location within country:

District

Upazila

Jessore

Keshobpur

Khulna

Batiaghata
Name of Client: Department of Non-Formal Education, Government of Bangladesh., Address: NFE Bhaban, 232/1, Tejgaon Industrial Area

Phase

Start date

Completion date

Phase-1

15/12/2002

30/09/2003

Phase-2

01/07/2003

15/05/2004

Phase-3B

01/08/2006

31/05/2007

Phase-4

01/09/2005

30/06/2006

Phase-5

15/04/2007

26/12/2007

Narrative description of Project:

Objectives:

§   To provide post literacy and continuing education to the neo literate graduated from  different Non-Formal Education projects and any others program organized by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and primary school dropouts;

§   To consolidate, upgrade and fine-tune the acquired skills of the selected neo literate and

§   To provide the neo-literate with skill training under continuing education course.

 Target Beneficiaries:

The neo-literates those who are graduated from different NFE programs and drop out from primary education.

Activities:

§  Teachers training, education materials distribution among the children of NFE centers (chalk, pencil, exercise book, books etc.).

§  Teachers’ refreshers course and monthly meetings.

§  Meeting with the dropped out children and disabled children for admitting schools.

§  NFPE education to the children, cultural activities, games and sports, etc.

§  Monthly guardians meetings and school management committee meetings.

§  Arranging annual cultural functions and sports for the school going children for encouraging to go to schools regularly and to improve their brain and mentality.

§  Encouraging guardians, local elite, leaders, teachers, and religious leaders etc. to motivate and encourage the people to send their children to schools not to involve in heavy works.

§  Distribute suitable aid-materials to the disabled children for going to schools easily (wheel chairs, crutches, white sticks, tricycle etc.).

§  Arrange seminar and workshop on child’s rights establishment.

§  Human rights education to the community people.

§  Arrange campaign, advocacy, lobbying with the local elite, teachers, administrations, government departments, local clubs etc. for sending children to schools etc.

§  Arrange professionals’ skills development training like tailoring, carpentry, electrical works, candle making, paper bag making, stitching, block boutique, poultry rearing, vegetable cultivation, etc.

Create education friendly environment to improve education status through arranging inter schools cooperation, visits etc. among disabled children and normal children.Description of actual services provided in the assignment:

A total of 75 continuing education centres were organised through mobilising community. Programmes were launched to provide post-literacy and CE support to 4500 ne0-literates through

*  practicing literacy;

*  issue based discussion;

*  developing learners generated materials;

*  collecting using supplementary reading materials from local source;

*  publication of newsletter;

*  providing vocational skill training and

*  linking the learners with local market.