Advocacy and Social Accountability (ASA)
Education Out Loud-Advocacy and Social Accountability (ASA)
Bangladesh has reached a milestone in promoting inclusive education of equitable gender, race, and color, running up with global accreditation. About 100% of children are enrolled in primary education, decreasing the dropping out trend. Gender balance in promoting to secondary from primary level of education, co-scholarship for all irrespective of gender and race, free of cost book distribution to all including the minor community at the beginning of calendar year, a massive number of primary schools are being nationalized, introducing quota including a sufficient number of female teachers are recruited and increased the rate of education as well as literacy rate. The online pedagogy system has created an excellent example in schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Besides these, the role of civil society and non-government development organizations is remarkable in establishing rights of education for backfooted and marginalized children, increasing the rate of education and literacy, women empowerment, disaster risk reduction, post-disaster rehabilitation, and introducing principles as well as its pragmatic implementation.Despite the rigorous role of government and non-government organizations and visible achievements in education, group communities like char, haor, tea-garden, disability, and minor peoples are being left out from the mainstreaming of education, and it becomes a significant challenge to the nation. Though women’s participation in education has increased to a reasonable extent, we are going too far to institutionalize women’s empowerment.
To overcome the above challenges and shortcomings, Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) has taken the initiative named “Advocacy of Social Accountability” along with its partner NGOs in 18 districts of Bangladesh that will play a good role in promoting the Civil Society movement and its empowerment towards education. Barguna is one of the above 18 districts.
Project Name: Education out loud-Advocacy and Social Accountability (ASA)
Duration: January 2022 to December 2023.
Area covered: Barguna district
Donor: Global Partnership for Education (GPE)/Oxfam IBIS
Budget (BDT in lakh): 14.28
Partner: Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE)
Implementing Agency: SANGRAM (Sangathita Gramunnyan Karmasuchi)
Goal
Ensure equal and participatory quality education and create a scope of education for lives.
Objectives
- Organizations will play a positive role in National Coalition through the effective participation of Civil Society at the local and national levels, citizens, and marginal communities.
- Organizational capacity development through participation of CSOs in Policy Dialogue.
- Ensure more participation and capacity building of Civil Society on quality education, gender balance, human rights, and education financing as per Education Principles.
- Strengthening inter-institutional coordination and communication for advocacy and dynamism of education.
Targets
- Ensure quality education at the Primary and Secondary levels.
- Ensure the scopes of Pre-primary Education, Early Child Care, and its Blooming.
- Ensure equal scope of education at Technical, Skills, and University levels.
- Enhancing Technical and Skill development education on Employment creation, Good works, and entrepreneurship.
- Ensure equal opportunity of capacity development training and reduce gender discrimination.
- Ensure literacy and gain basic knowledge of Mathematics and Science.
- To gain an understanding of humanitarian rights, civilization, and diversified cultural atmosphere around the world.
- Create a safe and integrated learning environment.
- Increase scholarships for higher education.
- Promote teachers training sponsorships and develop a working environment
Work area: Barguna District.
Human resources: 1 coordinator.
Participants: Members of CSOs, Teachers, Government, and NGO Officials.
Name of the Activities
- Arrange a meeting to include gender, disabled and marginalized population issues in the education plan.
- Awareness activities to marginalized populations’ voices raise social, cultural, and educational rights.
- Arrange review meetings with the members of the mass literacy campaign and other participants.
- Arrange campaigns to celebrate different national and international days.
- Arrange workshops for the capacity building of the local level organization’s members.
- Arrange workshops at the local level for CEO, teacher, organizer, and participants on thematic & advocacy-related capacity development.
- Active participation in different education committees, task forces, technical groups, and advisory committees under the initiative of the Government of Bangladesh.
- Active participation in the ELCG & various consultative forums/platforms to provide importance on marginalized population policy and to contribute to decision making.
- Discussion meeting on education rights, SDG-4, and education planning at the national and local levels.
- Involve local committees in education budget advocacy
- Factsheet/policy brief/spotlight report/generate alternative reports/editorial in newspaper/sub-editorial publishing and distribution.
- Dialogue involving media/roundtable meeting/supplement to the journal with the organization of discussion meetings/ disclosure of Open Appeals.
- Collaborate with national and regional coalitions on learning collaborative to combat educational attrition.
- Organizing workshops on best practices of advocacy initiatives with other partners of the EoL-ASA project.
- Participation in meetings, seminars, workshops, and other consultative processes at regional and international levels.
- Research activities on educational deprivation, including inclusion, equity and quality, management, and good governance.
- A youth-led research program on the impact of Covid-19.
- Conducting social audits and organizing public hearings for the development of school-level development plans and sound governance systems.
Activities are accomplished as of December 2022
- International Literacy Day :8 September 2022.
- World Teachers Day :11 October 2022.
- Dialogue for Budget of Education Sector :20 December 2022.
