The urban community learning centers (4CLCs) was set up with a view to function as education, information, and recreation and resource centers for slum dwellers. During the two years nine months project, 900 children (approximately 60% girls and 40% boys) will acquire basic education and of these, again during the two years nine months project period, 75 older children will acquire employable vocational skills and linkage to the job market. Children’s participation in education and training, supported by parental awareness, will facilitate increased access to available local facilities, leading to improvement of quality of life. The improved living conditions will help towards the gradual elimination of child labour. The target group is working, street, and poor children living in the designated slum areas of Dhaka City. The increase in population and limited initiatives for economic development in rural areas has had a significant impact on employment opportunities within these communities. The landless and marginalized people are migrating to the urban areas in search of work and, therefore, the slum population is rapidly increasing. 5400 children of these families will directly benefit from this project. Parents and other family members will also benefit, so with the average family size being 6, a total 5400 will indirectly benefit through improved access to health, water and sanitation services from local government; awareness raising campaigns etc. The project is being implemented in Mirpur area of Dhaka City.

300 street and working children, both girls and boys, will be supported by the project. It would help regaining family care where possible, acquire the skills to survive and flourish, free from fear, protected from violence and abuse, with access to education and health services. The project also extends services for the children to move on confidently equipped with the skills to pursue a stable potential career with regular income. A family centred awareness on child protection and safety linked with institutional support are sought also to address broader child rights and protection issues. The project focuses on the individual child for his/her to flourish according to individual potential. It has established as a safe home for the children. The children are being given support for bathing, cooking, resting and recreation. The drop-in centre based non-formal education is imparted. The multi-grade teaching-learning system is followed for imparting such non-formal education. The targeted community people are given different outreach services. These include having courtyard meeting on child protection and child rights etc; conducting different sessions on awareness raising on different child issues. The community people are also provided with the support of adult literacy, health-hygiene and other relevant issues. The project is being implemented in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka city.

The urban community learning centres (WC) were set up with a view to function as education, information, and recreation and resource centres for slum dwellers. During the five year project, 1500 children (approximately 50% girls and 50% boys) will acquire basic education and of these, again during the five year project period, 750 older children will acquire employable vocational skills and linkage to the job market. Children’s participation in education and training, supported by parental awareness, will facilitate increased access to available local facilities, leading to improvement of quality of life. The improved living conditions will help towards the gradual elimination of child labour. The target group is working, street, and poor children living in the designated slum areas of Dhaka City. The increase in population and limited initiatives for economic development in rural arrears has had a significant impact on employment opportunities within these communities. The landless and marginalized people are migrating to the urban areas in search of work and, therefore, the slum population is rapidly increasing. 1500 children of these families will directly benefit from this project Parents and other family members will also benefit, so with the average family size being 6, A total 7500 will indirectly benefit through improved access to health, water and sanitation services from local government; awareness raising campaigns etc. The project has set to work in Mirpur and Mohammadpur area of Dhaka city.

Quality Primary Education Project focuses on supporting mainstream primary schools of Sreepur Upazila, Gazipur district by offering pre schools, SBK, CAMP, Sopan and SIP .The project is technically and financially supported by Plan Bangladesh. Each year this project gets renewed for another year. The main objective of this project is to ensure quality primary education of children through community participation. The goal of the Quality Primary Education Project is to improve and establish the child friendly learning community having its increased and pro-active role for child development and quality primary education. Under the SIP component of this project 50 government and registered primary schools have been providing different support to promote the progress of the children. If necessary, required supports to the schools are provided by the Para Teacher. A total number of 21256 learners are covered through these project components. Shishu Bikash Kendro (SBK) has been launched for overall development of children aged 3-5 years. Encouraging individual technique, a positive attitude towards study has been created among the learners. The key components of the projects include Sopan, CAMP and Pre-school which categorise the young learners according to age. Twenty-five Sopans (for 925 learners of classes-1 & II) and 24 CAMP (for 526 learners of classes-III & IV) are underway in 19 schools. Learners' successes in CAMPs and Sopans are sources of encouragement to the school authorities, guardians as well as people.

The Early Childhood Development Support Program - Bangladesh (ECDSP-B) is a multi-faceted and timely response to existing needs and emerging opportunities within Bangladesh’s education sector. ECDSP-B will respond to the need for increased technical capacity and quality improvement in the field of early childhood development (ECD) in Bangladesh, as well as the necessity for increased coverage of ECD services to poor and marginalized populations by civil society organizations (CSOs) in the absence of expanded government service provision. ECDSP-B will also answer to the needs of CSOs working within the ECD sub-sector to become more effective and efficient organisations by supporting internal organisational development. Simultaneously, ECDSP-B will support institutional efforts to undertake research, professional development and advocacy on ECD at a national level. The goal of ECDSP-B is to contribute to the improved quality and delivery of service in education appropriate to the needs of the poor, particularly women and children and to their increased access to these services. The more immediate purpose of the programme is to strengthen CSO capacity to improve the quality of an access to ECD service provision for poor children in Bangladesh. Parallel with early childhood development interventions, the project broadly covers health & hygiene, nutrition, mainstreaming, parent liaison and community involvement with ECD interventions. Major focuses of this project are Capacity Building (human resource and organizational), Replication and Innovation. A total of 88783 beneficiaries will be covered in 5 years time. This project is being implemented in Barguna district by the support of Aga Khan Foundation and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Three Local organizations- AVAS, Jago Nari and Multi Task are implementing this project in Amtoli, Barguna sadar and Patharghata Upazilla of Barguna district.

Unique Intervention for Quality Primary Education-UNIQUE II is a 6-year project started its activities in December 2011. The project is being implemented with financial support of the European Union. The major objective of the project is to impart quality education to out-of-school and drop-out children particularly from the disadvantaged group. A key component of the project is to provide NFPE through Multi-grade teaching-learning approach. It is an effective method which considers individual subject based competency of learners. In the NFPE, Government curriculum for primary education is followed through multi-grade approach. UNIQUE II also intends to provide subject based remedial services to slow learners of targeted government and registered primary schools. UNIQUE-II aims at promoting, facilitating and managing greater community involvement and allowing the local community to participate at all stages of the project cycle. The project works for creating sufficient ownership of the local people with the aim of making more resilient and vibrant communities. UNIQUE-II is being implemented by a consortium of partners with Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) as the lead agency. The other implementing partners of the project include Assistance for Social Organization and Development (ASOD), Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP), Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra (PMUK), SUROVI, Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA). Besides, Plan Bangladesh supports the project as a technical partner. The project’s overall objective is to contribute to develop a collaborative basic education system that enables primary school aged children to avail quality education. The main activities of the project include organising Children Learning Centres (CLC), delivering Community based pre-primary education, replicating Multi-grade Teaching Learning Approach, organising Learning Camp for low performing school students, launching School Improvement Programme for targeted primary schools, developing and using locally contextualised learning materials, promoting the use of mother language in early learning, Setting up Learning Resource Centres (LRC) at union level, creating linkages with livelihood opportunities for the targeted parents, conducting disaster preparedness activities for uninterrupted children education , imparting Family Life Education (FLE) to parents and guardians, building collaboration between formal and non-formal primary education, influencing local government bodies to play a pro-active role for quality education and sharing lessons learned among primary education actors. During the project period a total number of 297467 children will be covered through non formal primary education, Pre-school education and Camp activity. UNIQUE II project is working in 26 districts and 84 upazilas through establishing 4230 Children Learning Center (CLC), 787 Pre-Schools and 1200 Camps.

The Post Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development Project (PLCEHD-2) started operation in February 2008 and will continue up to June 2013. The main task of the project is to help the learners to improve their acquired basic literacy skills; motivate the learners to apply their skills at individual, family and group levels (In their productive, family and social role); make the learners aware of the availability of government and non-government facilities and to prove them with the information as to how to have access to and derive benefits from these facilities; organize training to develop skills at the local levels considering; learners’ demand, demand for goods and services in the local market and available opportunities for skills training in the area; enhance the social standing of the neo literate by helping improve their living conditions and livelihood; develop technical skills and capacity of neo literate for getting them involved in continuing education activities and ultimately, help development of the neo-literate as an enlightened and productive citizen, eliminate gender disparity and establish social equitability expediting women empowerment. DAM is implementing the project directly at Patuakhali sadar, Mirzagonj, Kalapara and Galachipa Upazila in Patuakhali district while three partner organisations are implementing the project at Dumki, Dasmina and Baufal Upazila. The project is being implemented in 28 unions of 7 different upazilas and dealt with 71400 direct beneficiaries. The major aim of the project is to generate self and wage employment of the learners.

The Strengthening Good Governance in Primary Schools (SGGPS) in Bangladesh project of DAM, supported by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), aims to ensure quality primary education. The project identifies and addresses the issues causing poor governance resulting low quality performances in primary schools. It will undertake a facilitative process of intervention in the areas to overcome the problems so that a community led responsive and accountable education management system can come up to deliver the quality primary education. The project also address the pedagogic issues, community apathy to education, increasing role of Local Government Institutions (LGIs) to improve and create an enabling environment for ensuring enrolment, retention and quality education in primary schools. Overall objective of SGGPS project is to establish a community led learning environment in the primary schools in the selected hard to reach “haor” areas of Bangladesh for good governance and quality education. The activities of the 1st phase project are being implemented at Dharmapasha Upzila of Sunamgonj district in 3 unions such as Dharmapasha Sadar, Shalbarsh and Joysree. The SGGPS project started form April 2010 and will continue until June 2012.

The project emerged with the objective of ensuring active participation of community and other stakeholders in good governance of primary education system in the project areas. It is working to promote accountability of 5 government/registered non-government primary schools. 3 Union Parishads’ safety net services targeted for old, widow, poor and destitute people through introducing social accountability tool (primarily community score card). To present policy recommendations based on field experiences involving relevant local and national level primary schools authorities, departments and ministries responsible for safety net provisions and civil society groups for necessary changes in specific policies, intra and inter mechanisms of targeted services. The projects successfully engaged communities under the banner of grassroots monitoring group. It also engaged SMC, Teachers, Local Government Bodies (Union Parisads and its standing committees), Government Department (e.g. Upazilla Education Office, Upazilla Social Welfare Office) and other stakeholders. Through awareness raising initiatives, dialogues, meetings, public hearing and using other tools the project already demonstrated very good achievements. The activities of this project are being implemented at Fulchari Upazilla of Gaibandha district in three unions like Fulchari Sador union, Gazaria and Udakhali. ANSA project started form April 2010 and go on until March 2012.

The project aims at providing skills training on readymade garments sector to prepare RMG operators for the large job market and create employment opportunity for disadvantaged people. A total of 630 poor, unemployed, disadvantaged, retraced garments workers and people with disability (PWD) are being trained. The trainees are aged between 18-25 Years. The project is being implemented in Dhaka City and Gazipur District. An attractive feature of the project is to create linkage with other organisations in a comprehensive manner. Many organisations and projects have so far been working collectively including Prevention on Drug Addiction, Nari Moitre, DAM QPE, UNIQUE, Pavement Dwellers of Sajida Foundation, Concern Worldwide and Maaer Anchol etc. The project will initially be run for a year starting on 1 February and ending on 31 January 2012.

The project is an initiative for the personal advancement and career enhancement of female of the disadvantaged section of society. Through capacity building, the project seeks to improve the capacities of female in technical skills. Females are being provided skills training on readymade garment sector to make themselves ready for RMG Machine operation. This in turn will create employment opportunity of those disadvantaged women. 200 disadvantaged, poor, unemployed, garments workers lacking required skills, people with disability (PWD), widow, separated and divorced are imparted such training. Young women between the ages of 18 and 25 who meet standards of worthiness are chosen for the training courses. Nowadays linkage between corporate and NGOs is built for long-term mutually beneficial partnership. The project have build effective linkage and broader partnerships with companies like Lenny Fashion, Creative fashion, Masses Fashion, Style link and Gandhua design Ltd etc. The project started off on 1 January 2011 and will continue till 31December 2011. The project is being implemented in the Dhaka Export Processing Zone situated in Zirani of Gazipur districts.

With the technical assistance of Dhaka Ahsania Mission as private service provider, Directorate of Women Affairs (DOWA), Govt. of Bangladesh has initated the training project with financial support of German Development Cooperation (GIZ). The project will initially run for a period of nine months starting from October, 2011 to June, 2012. Considering the demand of skilled operators in the RMG sector and the eagerness of the local community, DOWA has taken initiative to impart training to potential women from different underdeveloped, flood-prone & coastal areas of Bangladesh. The duration of this non-residential training is two months with an intake of 48 trainees per batch. Selected women will be trained for developing RMG Machine operators as well as few line supervisors. Poor rural and the slum dwelling women aged from 18-25 years, terminated garment factory workers lacking required skills and partially disabled women are given preference for this training. The underprivileged women are being trained with the aim of providing both theoretical and practical orientation. The project is being implemented at the Dhaka Export Processing Zone Area, Zirani, Gazipur.

The project aims at providing skills training on readymade garments sector to prepare RMG operators for the large job market and create employment opportunity for disadvantaged people. A total of 30 poor, unemployed, disadvantaged, retraced garments workers and people with disability (PWD) are being trained. The trainees are aged between 18-25 Years. The project is being implemented in Dhaka City and Gazipur district. An attractive feature of the project is to create linkage with other organisations in a comprehensive manner. Many organisations and projects have so far been working collectively including Prevention on Drug Addiction, Nari Moitre, DAM QPE, UNIQUE, Pavement Dwellers of Sajida Foundation, Concern Worldwide and Maaer Anchol etc. The project started off in September 2011 and will continue till August 2012.

Under financial support from Society General-CARE France and technical support from CARE Bangladesh Dhaka Ahsania Mission has been implementing 2nd phase of the project in Uttara area under Dhaka City Corporation and Tongi Pourashova under Gazipur district from September 2011 for covering 30 months period. CARE Bangladesh is also playing facilitating the external relation with the project counterparts. The specific objective of the proposed action is to develop the human capital of children by providing them competencies and skills that are in demand and by setting a supportive community environment. The selected 1000 working children will receive 20 months literacy and numeracy skills training for those working children who are aged between 11 – 14 years. In addition life skills will be provided to the learners, which include communication, negotiation, and leadership and inter personal skills. These are likely to help them enhancing their social capital and negotiation power with their employers and better coping mechanism with their working environment. The 10-months long 2nd cycle intends to focus on marketable skills development training and Advance level career building skill training, which will significantly broaden their options, expand their opportunities for the future and increase their income-earning potentials. Marketable skills training will be provided to 13-15 years old working children who will attend or previously attended in functional education program and also school dropped out children. The Preschool Learning centers will be venue for a pre-school for 400 children aged 5 to 6. The pre-school is a 1-year curriculum that will prepare children socially, emotionally and cognitively for formal schooling and reduce the risk to become child laborers.

With the assistance of the Primary Education Directorate, Dhaka Ahsania Mission is implementing a project named Reaching Out-of-School Children. The key aim of the of the Project for Bangladesh is to reduce the number of out-of-school children through improved access, quality and efficiency in primary education, especially for the disadvantaged children, in support of GOB'S national "Education for All" goals. There are a number of project components that support (1) improving access to quality education for out-of-school children to facilitate their completion of primary schooling (2) communications and social awareness to raise awareness about the project, mobilize stakeholders to open new LCs or expand existing LCs, and disseminate information on qualification criteria, resource support, and other operational guidelines to stakeholders; (3) strengthen the capacity to deliver quality primary education to out-of-school children. Further Ananda Schools formed under the Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROSC) Project, gives disadvantaged children a second chance to continue their education. Dhaka Ahsania Mission is implementing the project activities in 6 different districts across Bangladesh. With its 1303 learning centres DAM has targeted extend services to approximately 45600 learners.

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) had an aggreement with the Young and Hat Bangladesh for championing the issue of literacy in the garment factories. DAM received generous financial contributions and corporate sponsorships to reach to the workers of garment factories. The fact that many of the garment workers in Bangladesh struggle to some degree with low literacy can seriously jeopardize Bangladesh’s ability to meet the demands of a rapidly-changing and technologically advancing workplace, and to reach their full potential at home and in society. With the above context, the adult literacy project started off April 2011 and will continue till October 2011. Initially the project is being implemeted in the city of Chittagong.

The project aims at developing and demonstrating an upazila model of quality basic education combining with ECCD through increased collaboration and functional relationship among local government authority (LGIs) and community based organizations (CBOs) including children. To contribute to a functioning and effective home based early learning and primary education system in Jaldhaka Upazilla of Nilphamari District that enables every child in the area to complete quality primary education as rights through strengthening access, quality and governance equally for girls and boys. The project will indirectly benefit the parents of the children and other community people of the proposed project area. Through mass awareness and advocacy program the entire community people including children within 11 unions and 1 Municipality area of Jaldhaka upazila as estimated around 3, 39,798 will be benefited from quality education. The children in schools will practice new learning in homes and parents will have increased knowledge. The final beneficiaries of the project will be the children; their parents; community groups, para teachers, SBK and Pre-School community facilitators and the tutors, para teachers, schoolteachers, and their association, and the upazila level government and non government service providers. All activities will be done with and for them.

World food program (WFP), under a capacity building framework has been supporting the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and the Directorate of primary Education (DPE) to replicate WFP’s School feeding model The school feeding programme is being implemented under the country program 2007-2010 jointly with the Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh in various high food insecure areas of the country, where education performance are low. The food for education programme intends to simultaneously fight micronutrient and hunger among primary schoolchildren.

With the objective to contribute to the government’s policy of universal primary education by improving access to basic education of school-aged children, particularly those living in poverty prone areas, the project is being implemented. Dhaka Ahsania Mission is implementing the project in 4 Upazilas ( Nandail, Ishwargonj, Dhobaura, and Phulpur) of Mymensing district. The major activities of the project include organize distribution of biscuits in selected schools, ensure that biscuits reach the intended beneficiaries free-of-charge quickly and in good condition, cooperate local Administration and School Management committees for storage and distribution of Food and aware community people and mobilise local community on education, health, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, gender issues, disaster risk reduction.The target groups of the project area are, 227321 students out of 172 schools of Nandail upazila , 51330 students out of 132 schools of Ishwargonj Upazila, 84360 students out of 238 schools of Phulpur upazila and 27491 students out of 87 schools of Dhobaura Upazila under Mymensingh district.. The target groups are from highly poverty prone areas. The ultimate beneficiaries are around 5 lac family members of the target students and the community people, who will be benefited from the project. It is expected that the after completion of the action the health and nutritional status of the students will be improved. Most important is the iodine and iron directly affects cognition. Meeting the iron and iodine needs of a school going children can translate into better school performance.