More than 400,000 of one million registered Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh (including over 738,000 who have come since August 2017) are under-18 school-age children. They are sheltered in eleven camps, located in two upazilas (Ukhia and Teknaf) of Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh. Some of them accompanied their parents; some only had a single parent, while some were orphans. Since their arrival, about two-thirds of the younger children have received some non-formal education through local and international NGOs. Yet more than 90% of the 117,000 adolescent children, especially girls, have been left out. Equitable access to basic education and skills training in safe spaces within the camps is a human right of the female adolescents. It would raise their capacity for better-paid and more meaningful, income-generating or employment opportunities, thereby benefiting the girls themselves as well as their families, giving them a hope for future. Furthermore, there is evidence that the education of adolescent girls leads to smaller family size and delayed marriage, and contributes to their increased participation in decision-making and achieving more equal control over resources (Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy, 2017, pp 1-4).
This will be a pilot project. Project outcomes, challenges, lessons, and recommendations will be shared with Rotary International, the Government of Canada, and the wider public to facilitate potential post-project scale-up. The proposed objectives of the project are to provide: 1) a customized and needs based education in the selected camps; and 2) inclusive education and life-skill training to 100 adolescent girls who are otherwise deprived of their right to education. Non-formal Primary Education (NFPE) will be used as the delivery model. It is a UNICEF approved model widely applied in the grassroots educational development context in Bangladesh and 39 countries of the world. NFPE provides initial education instruction and programming to children from marginal households who could not access formal schools due to economic and proper care constraints. The curriculum will be gender responsive: it will be tailored in this project to take into account and meet the specific conditions and needs of the Rohingya adolescent girls in the camps, such as their socially expected isolation from unrelated boys and men; and their frequently early marital and maternal status. For example, babysitting services will be offered to care for the young mothers' children while they attend class. Further, the project will support existing child friendly spaces in selected camps; address and transform harmful behaviours that can have negative consequences for all genders; provide selective skills training; and support already existing welcoming spaces that respond to the specific needs of Rohingya girls (Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy, Action area 1 (core) and 2, p 19, pp 55-57; Bob Rae, "Tell them we're human": What Canada and the world can do about the Rohingya crisis, April 2018, pp 15-16). The project, therefore, will address Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality education), and 5 (Gender equality) and at the same time help Rohingya adolescent children to achieve useful skills whether they live in Bangladesh or ultimately repatriated to Rakhine.
Dropped
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Project listed for the 2019-20 Rotary Year.
The TRF Grant application number is #2016381.
Proposed Financing
Existing Contributions Towards This Project
Date
Cash
DDF
Total
Chittagong (3282)
29-Aug-19
$800
$3,000
$3,800
Winnipeg (5550)
29-Aug-19
$7,500
$7,500
$15,000
Winnipeg (5550)
30-Aug-19
$2,500
$0
$2,500
Lake Oswego (5100)
10-Dec-19
$2,000
$0
$2,000
Escondido (5340)
12-Feb-20
$950
$950
$1,900
Cheyenne (5440)
25-May-20
$4,317
$0
$4,317
Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation
$9,033
$11,450
$20,483
Total
$50,000
Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.
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History Log Entries
29-Aug-19
System Entry
System Entry: Creation of project page.
30-Aug-19
by Kawser ahmed
System Entry: Pledge of $2,500 by Kawser ahmed of the Rotary Club of Winnipeg, District 5550.
14-Oct-19
by Philippe Lamoise
System Entry: Project reverted to "Published".
10-Dec-19
System Entry
System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Lloyd HIll of the Rotary Club of Lake Oswego, District 5100.
12-Feb-20
by Colleen MacKinnon
System Entry: Pledge of $950 with $950 DDF by Colleen MacKinnon of the Rotary Club of Escondido, District 5340.
25-May-20
System Entry
System Entry: Pledge of $4,317 by Jera Likely of the Rotary Club of Cheyenne, District 5440.
25-May-20
System Entry
System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".
2-Jul-20
by Kawser ahmed
System Entry: Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access.
2-Dec-20
by Kawser ahmed
The project global grant application # is now GG2016381. It is in the process of being reviewed at the Regional grant officer level.
5-Jul-21
by Philippe Lamoise
System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise.
Reason for dropping: Requested by Shabbir Chowdhury: Considering this project will bring benefits for the underpriveleged Rohingya community, RC Ctg proceeded with GG process . We carried on and finally meeting the conditions of the Grant process, the Global Grant got into the the status of 'Application Sent' in 2020.
The details of the project are as follows :-
Name : Rohingya Female Education
Country : Bangladesh
Location : Chittagong
TRF Grant Number : 2016381
However, Rotary Club of Chittagong has raised concerns with its International partner, Rotary Club of Winnipeg and its chosen implementation partner Prantik on the GG project evaluation and monitoring process in our last Zoom meeting on 17 March, 2021. The poi [...]
