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IRDO has been working since 1st January 1999 with the peoples whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, handicaps and many other socio-economic problems. IRDO strives to bring about a positive change in the quality of life of the poverty-stricken people of Bangladesh with conducting various development activities.
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In January 1999, the NFPE Model was started as a three-year program for Children between the ages of 8 and 12, who had never enrolled in any school or who had dropped out during class-1 from the formal Schools. IRDO at first conducted Non-Formal Education Program at Kapasia Upazila under Gazipur District.
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SL. No. Name of the ongoing Programs:
01. Non-Formal Education Program.
02. Information Communication Technology Program.
03. Health, Population, Nutrition and Sanitation Program.
04. Skill Development Training Program.
05. Agricultural Research and Development Program.
06. Environment / Social Forestry Program.
07. HIV / AIDS Program
08. Arsenic Mitigation Program.
09. Community Based Library Program.
10. Aqua Culture Program.
11. Basic Literacy Program (Ganokendra/ Awareness program/ Campaign/ Social mobilization/ Women
Empowerment/ Gender Development etc.)
12. Housing Program (Grihayan Program for Rural Poor & Homeless).
13. Eradication of Hazardous Child Labour In Bangladesh Project.
14. Women Empowerment through IGA Program.
15. Disaster Management and Climate Change Program.
16. Homestead Gardening & Spice Cultivation Program.
17. Disaster Livelihood Program.
18. SDP for Tribal Population.
19. Micro Credit Program/SME.
20. Solar Power Program.
In January 1999, the NFPE Model was started as a three-year program for Children between the ages of 8 and 12, who had never enrolled in any school or who had dropped out during class-1 from the formal Schools. IRDO at first conducted Non-Formal Education Program at Kapasia Upazila under Gazipur District. IRDO open 25 NFE schools at first phase in the program area. At first local leaders, patrons of the Organization and the Members of IRDO funded in this program. The program is totally implementing in cost effective way. Afterward different donors and local organizations of Bangladesh funded in this Program. The Schools have no fees; all learning materials for the students are provided by IRDO. These Schools enable the Children to continue their education and prepare them for entrance into formal Schools.
The NFE program was started formally with presence of DC, UNO UP chairman, local elites, guardians of students, teachers, officials and members of IRDO and peoples of all levels of the society.
Above-mentioned objectives of IRDO fully fit to the Governments “Education For All” goals by focusing on rural and poor children, expanding the participation of girls and grassroots levels poor children.
In order to ensure that the IRDO schools came to educate as many as possible, an extensive geographical selection process is conducted. Every year IRDO sets goals for the number of new schools to be opened, usually in the rural areas. Locating and creating each school is a frequent process, commencing with a visit to prospective village to find the number of eligible students.
Availability of qualified teachers in the same area is another important factor and surveys are different areas to assess parental demand for schools. Finally, the proximity of the new School on the feasibility of forming a cluster of schools is considered.
An area under survey comprises at least 10 villages and IRDO will then only enter if it can establish school in a cluster of at least 10 villages within a short distance of a team office. This is done mainly to accommodate the teacher so that they do not have to travel long distances to attend the monthly refreshers courses.
Once a demand for School in a certain area exists, a list of prospective student and teachers is created. The list of the students is checked with the other local Gov. Schools to make sure that no student is already enrolled in these schools and to ascertain that the children have indeed dropped out. This ensures that the IRDO’s schools are complementing the Gov. Education program rather than competing with it. After the student list is finalized and the teachers identified, one school is opened in a village for every 30 students. The selection process is complete. When the community and the local landowner help to choose a School site and build the classroom.
The School is one room School and temporary in nature. This allows cost effectiveness, rather than spending too much on the infrastructure. The students of IRDO schools are the children from the poor and the landless portion. They are the unreachable, which have been denied education because of gender and poverty. Emphasis is placed on creating an environment, which would gradually lead to equal education opportunities for other boys and girls reinforcing IRDO’s efforts towards gender party.
The students of IRDO School comprise children of poor families and 60% of the learns are girls. After completing the three-year cycle, they normally transfer to the formal schools.
More than 80% of the teachers are women, married and locally resident. They are usually graduates of class xi and are given on initial fifteen days training at one of the IRDO training centers, followed by periodical training at the beginning of each year. Regular monthly one-day refresher courses are provided. IN all IRDO School the same teacher teaches the same batch of 30 students through the entire three-year school cycle. On average the teaching time of a typical IRDO School is 675 hours in the first year and 810 hours in the following 2 years, making a total of 2,295 hours of contact time between teacher and student in the three calendar years.
Parental and community participation plays a vital part in program designing and from an important feature of all IRDO schools. Each school has a School Management Committee (SMC) comprises of three parents, a committee leader and a teacher, who together are responsible for the smooth running of the School and SMC meeting is held whenever necessary. The SMC and the other parents maintain the School, set up the School timing vacations and ensure the children’s regular attendance. Parent meeting is held once a month in each School so as to encourage the guardians to play an important part in the education process. On average 80% of the parents (mostly mothers) attend the meeting where parents and teacher discuss the children’s progress, attendance, cleanliness and hygiene, the responsibility of parents towards their children and any school problems requiring parental attention. The supervision by the Program Organizer facilitates the processing of the meeting.
The NFPE Program has stream lined the broad based formal Curriculum and tailored it to the essential needs of children living in a rural environment. Since a majority of IRDO school graduates continue education in the Gov. primary school the curriculum incorporates objectives in that are discussed in formal school and covers the essential contents of the formal primary education curriculum.
Currently, the NFPE curriculum consists of lessons in Bengali, Mathematics and Social Studies, English is taught from the second year of School and Religious Education is taught in the third year.
A major strength of the IRDO School is in the fact that its teaching methods and classroom practices are increasingly becoming more learners centered participatory. The curriculum integrates several children to child activities in its different subjects. Concepts are learned through activities which are designed to promote independent thinking and problem solving, physical exercise, singing, dancing, drawing, craftsmanship, group work, games and story book reading are used to help the creative thinking process of the students. The curriculum is continually developed, modified and revised, enabling teachers to encourage active learning based on meaningful understanding.
Any education program needs to have a sound and excellent supervisory process and an efficient management system in order to be effective. For NFPE program the overall responsibility lies with IRDO’s Director (NFE). Direct management and supervision is accomplished through a structure, which includes the central office of the Director of NFE and Staff. To facilitate its multifaceted work, the program has formed material development and logistic units.
IRDO successfully completed PLCEHDP-1 funded by DNFE (The then BNFE) under Ministry of Primary and Mass Education in association with World Bank, SDC, and Government of Bangladesh. IRDO has also completed other projects on NFE and SDT funded by Local NGOs and International donors. A total of 6500 learners were received NFE and SDT by 2013. At present 30 Multi Purpose Centre is going on, where 900 learners regularly enrolling with SDTs following 18 Months NFE.
IRDO has five years of experience in basic literacy program. IRDO has set up 10 well equipped Training Center on permanent basis for trained up of IRDO’s different Program’s Members and its staff members. In October 2001, the Basic Literacy Program model was started as a pilot project. One Vocational Training Center has set up in Amraid under Kapasia Upazila and other Vocational Training Center has set up in Tangra Bazar of Talihati Union of Sreepur Upazila under Gazipur District.
IRDO has been conducting three types of training. One kinds of training is for IRDO different Programs staff members. These are Refreshers Courses and Basic Training for NFE and Basic Literacy Program’s Staffs. Other Kinds of training is for Organization’s staff team and other kinds of Training are for Village Organizations Members for their Income Generating Activities. Theses are as follows:
IRDO has a well equipped training division. Essential courses for the different program have been conducted training in different innovative, educational, and development activities. IRDO deemed, training make a man perfect. IRDO has 05 Training centers, of which two in its own (IRDO) lands located in Amraid of Kapasia under Gazipur District, and Narsingdi sadar, others are in different Program areas which covered different types of training for beneficiaries, staffs and other officials:
There are four types of training conducted by IRDO from its training center
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Primary health care training.
Management Training.
Mother and child health care training.
Family Planting & MCH SD.
Safe motherhood training.
HFSNG, Poultry for Nutrition.
Nursery development training.
FS/HS & Monitoring Training.
Disaster management training.
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Gender development training.
In order to preserve the environment, IRDO has initiated a social forestry program. The purpose of the project is to carry out extensive plantation on underutilized lands. Farmers have planted tress long-term economic value, on their homesteads on riverbanks and unutilized spaces on farmlands, roadside and many other social and community-based institution’s open spaces.
The purpose of IRDO’s Social Forestry Program is to alleviate poverty and simultaneously protect the environment. In Bangladesh, forest comprises only 6.25% of the total land area. Per capita forestland constitute only 0.02 hector, which is one of the lowest in the world. On the other hand demand for timber and fuel wood are rising due to the growing population. To face the large-scale deforestation, IRDO’s Social Forestry Program is working to during all available land in the rural areas under forestation with the active participation of the rural poor.
The program engages participants in operating horticulture and grafting nurseries either on their homesteads or on unused land. They are given access to credit from the Micro Credit Program of IRDO, training on seedling production / grafting, input support in the from of seed or seedling and technical and marketing assistance. Micro Credit Program members, who own or can mortgage 20-60 decimal of land, carry out agro forestry activities. In agro forestry food crops and tree crops are planted on the same plot of land in alternate strips of rows and columns. Short term, mid term and long term crops are planted simultaneously so that year round income is ensured for the participants. Till June 2012, a total of 875 participants were involved in horticulture and grafting nursery activities. It is possible to earn an average of Taka 3000/- (three thousand) per month from activities carried out under Social Forestry Program.
With the very beginning of IRDO, it has introduced Micro credit Program, as it is the Proven means of poverty alleviation. In January 1999 IRDO started Micro Credit Program with its own revolving loan fund, contributed by the members of Executive Committee and General committee. Afterward Grehayon Tahabil (Bangladesh Bank) of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, DANIDA, JSKP was contributed in this Program. A total of 22,235 loonies were provided Micro Credit facility with an amount of Taka 14.17 crore by December 31, 2013. Total outstanding amount is BDTk. 22,234,708.00 saving Amounts of this program is BDTk 6,339,379.00. The revolving Loan funds are available of the following purposes: