UNESCO Dhaka

Inclusive education aims at providing appropriate responses to the broad spectrum of children’s learning needs. The challenge is how to transform education systems in order to respond to the diversity of learners, enabling both teachers and learners to feel comfortable with diversity. The goal is to create effective ECCE programs that are available to all children, rather than creating special programmes for children with special needs.

Report of the Regional LIFE Meeting held on 20-22 March 2006 in Islamabad, Pakistan

National AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and Operational Plan (2006-2010) for Bangladesh.

Recognizing the overarching need of reliable data on literacy in Bangladesh, the national statistical organization Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), for the first time, conducted nationwide literacy assessment survey, and found the results very interesting. The literacy assessment survey conducted by BBS, with technical and financial support from UNESCO, found adult literacy rate to be 48.8 percent. Interestingly it also shows that about 50% of the adult literates are female, leading to gender parity.  The test based literacy assessment shows that there is much improvement in the overall literacy situation, compared to the results of similar assessments made by other organizations – namely Education Watch (2002) and UNESCO Dhaka Office (2005). However, a sharp decline of literacy among the urban males is observed. The survey also classified the respondents into four groups, based on their level of literacy skills: Non-Literate, Semi-Literate, Literate at Basic Level, and Literate at advanced level.