UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Published purpose

The project aims to improve the basic competencies of 166,150 urban working children between the age of 10 and 14 so they can pursue safer and better life options within a supportive environment that includes policy advocacy and networking. The project provides the working children and adolescents with life skills-based quality basic education, including literacy and numeracy, and is expected to provide livelihood skills training for 20,130 students. It also aims to strengthen education, social and economic policies in favour of working children and their families. The project focuses on urban working children (60% of whom are girls) in Bangladesh's six divisional cities who are engaged in occupations that prevent them from attending school. A special emphasis is placed on reaching children who are involved in hazardous labor (about 10% of target). This project is co-financed by UNICEF, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), and the Government of Bangladesh.