Equality of Opportunity in Education and Training - Bangladesh Education for All (EFA) National Plan of Action II 2003 - 2015

Education for All (EFA) National Plan of Action (NPA) II 2003 - 2015

The Plan was ddrafted by the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education in May 2003.

Reducing gender inequity is defined as of the guiding principles of the Plan.

Chapter 5

5B.6 Gender inequity and disparity reduction: Affirmative discrimination in favor of girl students/learners (or boys where necessary) and women teachers (actual and potential) has a special priority focus of the NPA in all activities in both the formal and non-formal sub-sectors of basic education until equity is fully achieved (the target is 2010).

Chapter 9 focuses on female education and proposes to :

(i) Ensure and sustain gender equity in access to primary and other basic education components by 2005 and gender equality in education management by 2015 in line with The Dakar Framework for Action (DFA) goal;

(ii) Ensure access/enrollment and retention of all girls, including the physically, mentally and socially challenged, the ethnic minorities and others, both in the mainstream primary education and where necessary, in appropriate institutions;

(iii) Provide adequate, separate and well-maintained toilet facilities for girls in all educational institutions and literacy centers;

(iv) Continue to provide incentives to girls to enroll and attend school and women to join other basic education programs until equity is achieved fully and sustained;

(v) Ensure fully the quality of education and other associated services; and

(vi) Improve law and order situation, in cooperation with the relevant authorities of the government and community organizations, to provide a sense of security among parents/guardians to send the girls to school and also to female teachers serving in schools away from home, including provision of hostels for primary school teachers at strategic locations.