Education for Poor Children in Bangladesh
ROSC model for provision of non-formal education to the out-of-school children: Bangladesh has made significant progress in education over the past two decades. Still, many school-aged children from the poorest families in Bangladesh either do not enroll or discontinue school due to poverty. The Reaching Out- of- School Children II (ROSC II) project aims to reduce the number of out-of-school children through improved access, quality and efficiency in primary education, providing disadvantaged children an opportunity to complete grade 5 and transition to secondary education. Challenge In 2004, nearly 1.5 million primary school-aged children were out of school in Bangladesh. The…