Component 4:

Improving and Supporting Equitable Access to Quality Schooling

Objectives:

• To enhance the institutional capacity of DPE at central and other levels to meet the needs of children with special requirements to access, engage, enjoy and complete primary education through the formal sector
• To alleviate the demand-side and supply-side constraints those prevent millions of children from accessing and participating fully and successfully in formal primary education

Interventions:

• Special Needs Education to overcome all the barriers that prevent children from accessing and completing schools
• Develop gender related materials
• Continue stipend program for financial support to the poorest families
• Provide grants for working children living in poverty and children living with disabilities due to social, economic, intellectual and physical barriers
• Introduce a 'better health for better education program' by providing grants.
• Provide specialized training to staff at OPE, PTI and Upazila levels
• Pedagogical support for 'special needs' children at school level
• Provide innovation grants to support practical and creative interventions