UNESCO Dhaka - Education

Education Sector

UNESCO believes that education is key to social and economic development. We work for a sustainable world with just societies that value knowledge, promote a culture of peace, celebrate diversity and defend human rights, achieved by providing education for all.

The mission of the UNESCO Education Sector is to:

Provide international leadership for creating learning societies with educational opportunities for all populations;

Provide expertise and foster partnerships to strengthen national educational leadership and the capacity of countries to offer quality education for all.

UNESCO works as an intellectual leader, an honest broker, and clearinghouse for ideas, propelling both countries and the international community to accelerate progress towards these goals.

Development of a National Curriculum and Educational Materials on HIV/AIDS Preventive Education

A national NFE training curriculum on HIV/AIDS preventive education to train religious leaders and Imams of the mosque was developed by Grambangla Unnayan Committee in close participation of all concerned Ministries, Govt. agencies and NGOs. The manual was used to orient Imams and religious leaders on HIV/AIDS preventive education. The Imams and religious leaders being one of the most influential social and religious actors contribute a lot in raising awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention and elimination of social stigma and discrimination.

Adaptation of the Teacher Training Manual: Reducing HIV/AIDS Vulnerability

Bangladesh National Commission for UNESCO with Ministry of Education organized the said workshop. TT Manual was translated in Bangla and was finalized through this national adaptation workshop. This manual is expected to nurture the curriculum of the teacher training institutes to train the secondary school teachers.

Capacity Building of Secondary School Teachers on HIV/AIDS Preventive Education

Bangladesh National Commission for UNESCO organized two-day workshops on HIV/AIDS preventive education in 20 districts. The participants are headmasters, principals (including Madrasas) & Science teachers of the government and non-government secondary schools. The objective was to enable the teachers and educational administrators to integrate HIV/AIS contents in the educational processes and lessons, which will help students prepare themselves for a decent and hygienic sexual life.

Translation and Adaptation of “HIV/AIDS and Education: A Toolkit for the Ministry of Education

UNESCO has been globally given the responsibility for coordinating the education sector response to HIV/AIDS. Responding to the given responsibilities, UNESCO Bangkok in collaboration with UNAIDS developed an advocacy kit “HIV/AIDS and Education: A Toolkit for Ministries of Education” targeted to the senior and mid-level officials of MOE. The major objective of this guide was to encourage and help particularly education Ministry/Department officials across the South East Asia and Pacific region, to reinforce their commitment, increase awareness of the impact of HIV/AIDS, and collaborate to take actions against the disease. This toolkit was translated and adapted in different languages in different countries and UNESCO Dhaka has undertaken the initiative and gave the responsibility to Bangladesh AIDS Prevention Society (BAPS) for translation and adaptation of this toolkit, which was finalized through a three-day national workshop. This toolkit has been used as an effective tool for HIV/AIDS advocacy and awareness raising.

Conducing a monitoring and evaluation study on inclusive education training

The objective of this activity is to look into the process and impact of the inclusive education training and provide suggestions and recommendations for further improvement and massive expansion of its training over the country which is planned in PEDP II. This study will be completed in March 2006.

Conducting inclusive education training for primary school teachers and teacher trainers.

This training was held for 5 days with 75 teachers and teacher trainers (25 in a batch) of non government primary schools. Teachers become knowledgeable and skillful in inclusive education. The objective of this activity was also to contribute to the government programme (PEDP II) with developed materials, training design, strategy, findings and lesson learnt. Training materials are developed based on the inclusive education toolkit in Bangla. This activity is important to give guides and implications to the implementation of inclusive education activities in PEDP II. This training will be continued in 2006.

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