International Development Grant
Life Skills and Education for Adolescent Development
Project Number: CA-3-A032585001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $3,700,837.00
Start Date: October 20, 2005
End Date: October 24, 2011
Duration: 6.0 years
Project Description
Through this project non-formal education and life skills training are provided to adolescents in Bangladesh. The project aims to improve the quality and delivery of education services appropriate to the needs of poor adolescents in particular girls and to increase their access to those services. The project targets 54 000 poor and marginalized adolescents (80 percent girls) aged 11-17 years from rural communities in 9 districts of Bangladesh. The project provides basic education life skills and employment skills training to these adolescents; promotes research networking and community dialogue to increase public support for services for adolescents and recognition of their human rights; and enhances the capacity of 48 local non-governmental organizations to design deliver and sustain programming for adolescents.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (September 2011) include: (i) 2 160 literacy classes were established providing 18-month life skills and education programs (equivalent to grade 3) to 42 775 adolescent girls and 11 225 adolescent boys; (ii) 38 419 adolescent girls and 10 325 adolescent boys graduated from the programs (a graduation rate of 90%); and (iii) 12 413 female graduates and 2 703 male graduates received employment skills training. These results contributed to providing quality basic education to poor and marginalized adolescents which in turn is contributing to long-term human resource development in Bangladesh.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
SeedChange
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
OGM Indo-Pacific
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Donor country personnel
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP