Project profile — BRAC Primary Education Program II

• Bangladesh (100.00%)

• Teacher training:
Teacher training (11130) (10.00%)
Educational research (11182) (5.00%)
• Primary education:
Primary education (11220) (50.00%)
Basic life skills for youth (11231) (15.00%)
Early childhood education (11240) (20.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (significant objective)
• Disability (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to provide quality non-formal basic education to 2 million poor children (of whom about 65% are girls) living in remote and underserved areas, including children from ethnic backgrounds and children with disabilities. It seeks to increase these children’s performance at school and increase their possibilities for continued education, and postponing marriage for girls. The project also contributes to achieving the national goals of the Education for All policy and the Millennium Development Goal 2 (to provide universal primary education for boys and girls, including marginalised groups, by 2015). The BRAC Primary Education Program works to: (1) support building and operationalizing one-classroom schools in urban slums and rural areas to deliver preschool and primary education; (2) improve the curriculum, and learning and teaching materials; (3) enhance teacher training for preschools, and primary and secondary schools; and (4) improve management of these schools. All participating preschools (30 thousand) and primary schools (33 thousand) provide a child-friendly learning environment which ensures that every child has an environment that is physically safe. The project also provides training sessions to parents and teachers committees on the importance of regular school attendance, raises awareness among 700 communities to encourage use of multi-purpose community learning centres, and supports 7,000 youth centres.

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Results achieved by BRAC with the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors as of December 2013 include: (1) 1,753,269 marginalized children (61% girls), including 6,708 children from ethnic communities (56% girls)and 70,520 children with special needs (52% girls), completed preschool education in 63,963 schools; (2) 864,843 children (63% girls), including 45,581 children from ethnic minorities (57% girls) and 23,750 children with special needs, completed grade 5 in BRAC-run primary schools; (3) 801,663 graduates of BRAC primary schools (63% girls) passed the nation-wide grade 5 primary school completion public examination during the period from 2009 to 2013, with an overall pass rate of 99.06% (99.14% for girls); and (6) 41,432 new members (76% girls) joined Adolescent Clubs that were formed with the support of the project. These have contributed to improving the number of poor and marginalized children having access to and completing quality preschool and primary education.

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