Although Bangladesh has made significant progress in primary-school enrolment, millions of primary-school aged children remain out of school. Per the Bangladesh education sector annual performance report 2016, the proportion of out of school children (OOSC) has fluctuated from 15% to 25% over the last decade. To address some of the substantial barriers facing OOSC in Bangladesh, Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) and Educate A Child (EAC) formed a partnership to provide access to quality primary education opportunities to 40,000 out of school children through the Children’s Learning Centers (CLC) project from 2012 to 2017 along with two co-funders; Cordaid and Marico. The project was a non-formal education model for OOSC implemented in Jamalpur, Noakhali and Chittagong districts.

 

Educate A Child (EAC) commissioned Results for Development (R4D) to conduct an in-depth case study to document and analyse DAM’s approach of the Children’s Learning Centers (CLC) project in providing quality, non-formal primary education to dropout and never enrolled children in remote, rural and poor areas of Bangladesh. The findings would contribute to the body of global knowledge on OOSC.