Second Reaching Out of School Children Project

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

The development objective of Second Reaching Out of School Children Project for Bangladesh is to improve equitable access, retention and completion in quality primary education for out-of-school children in selected under-served areas. This project has four components as follows: (i) increasing equitable access to primary education; (ii) improving retention in and completion of primary education cycle; (iii) enhancing project implementation capacity through mobilization of communities and partner agencies; and (iv) establishing an effective monitoring and evaluation system. This additional financing for the project adds a new fifth component: Provide safe and equitable learning opportunities to children and adolescents of the Displaced Rohingya Population (DRP) in Cox’s Bazar District, which aims to support the response to the immediate education needs of the crisis-affected DRP children and adolescents while helping to strengthen the service delivery system of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in Cox’s Bazar.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Bangladesh

Location(s)

South Asia

Bangladesh

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2018 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Bangladesh Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME)

Funder(s)

International Development Association

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School facilities

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys out of school, Girls out of school, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms