General Information

Education is a major indicator of social progress. DAM has been operating non-formal education program for a long period and it has significant contribution in non-formal and formal education. At the community level, DAM operates ECD center with a view to develop first generation learners coming from poor families. Through this program DAM operates pre-school to stimulate and prepare the children for sustainable enrolment in mainstream primary education. DAM operates non-formal primary education center for out-of-school poor children who assist their parents in earning livelihood. Children of different geographic areas - urban/ slum, poverty prone, tribal, and coastal and haor are covered under NFPE. DAM provides education for child laborer under prevention and elimination of worst form of child labor in collaboration with ILO. DAM delivers continuing education program aiming at capacity building of the poor allowing them sustainable access to the employment opportunity to make them partners in social progress.

At the national level DAM is also contributing to tertiary education. DAM establishes different types of institutions to provide support on tertiary education. DAM has developed learning materials for all age group of learners from early childhood development to continuing education. DAM developed supplementary materials for primary schools. As apart of NGO advocacy network forum, DAM worked in reinforcing NFE in the context of EFA, in the National Plan of Action and in linking NFE with the PRSP.

At the international level DAM works with several education-related global, international and regional networks like Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, International Council on Adult Education for promoting EFA agenda. DAM policy advocacy at international level is focused on different social issues related to well being of the disadvantaged and the vulnerable groups, and promotion of EFA and NFE goals in conjunction with MDGs.

During the year under report DAM was implementing as many as nine projects in which education was the main component. The projects covered areas from early childhood care and development to continuing and lifelong education. Special focus was on quality education and public participation and empowerment of the communities