Government - Ministry of Education
Primary Education
Development program (PEDP-II)
Integrated and coordinated program covering the formal primary education
in Bangladesh
–
Quality improvement through organizational
- Development and
capacity building
– Quality improvement in
schools and classrooms
–
Quality improvement through infrastructure
development
– Improving and supporting
equitable access to quality
schooling
- Project includes a comprehensive Project policy and
reform framework
– Focus on improving quality of primary education
– Supported by necessary institutional and
organizational reforms and capacity building
– Includes an element of performance based
financing
Project key Statistics:
• $ 1.815 billion $ 1.815 billion
• Gov’t of Bangladesh contributing 64 percent of of
total funding
• Supports Bangladesh’s primary education sub sub-sector
for 6 years
• 11 donors
• 13 lead agency processing missions and three joint
missions over a two year period
The project would
increase enrolment of poor children by 3.2 million, bringing a total of
11.7 million poor children into primary education. Over 17 million
pupils in 78,000 primary schools are expected to derive benefit from the
in-service training of more than 320,000 teachers. The targeted schools
will include both the fully government primary schools and the
registered ones.
Some 30,000 classrooms will be built to accommodate increasing numbers
of students, while Primary Teacher Training Institutes (PTIs) will be
renovated to impart advanced training to the teachers.
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