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Information
Center - Child Labour |
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Child Labour in Bangladesh |
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The Child Labour issue is one if the
great concern throughout the world.
It is quite common for children of
all types of societies to be engaged
in some forms of occupation
depending on the economic structure
and level of development. As such,
the phenomenon is not connected to
any particular country or culture.
In fact, of the country concerned,
Child Labour has been generally
perceived more as a problem of poor
developing countries like Bangladesh
which is consistently facing
Challenges against poverty, high
population growth, rising
unemployment, natural disaster and
so on........Read
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BEHTRUWC Project Second Phase |
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The second phase of the Basic
Education for Hard to Reach Urban
Working Children (BEHTRUWC) Project
is planned to be implemented in six
Divisional Cities with the objective
to reach 200,000 urban working
children with a forty month
non-formal education package. The
target is children of 10-14 years of
age of which 60% are girls. Under
the framework of the Government of
Bangladesh’s Bureau of Non Formal
Education (BNFE), NGOs have been
engaged to provide basic non-formal
education to urban working children
in this project.
Over the last six years the BEHTRUC
project covered more than 346,500
working children of whom more than
50% were girls. Many children were
also successful in entering into
mainstream education. As a follow up
and a pilot activity, a livelihood
skill project for 500 HTR graduates
in Dhaka, 250 in Barisal and 250 in
Sylhet has been completed...Read
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Child Development and Education (CDE) |
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Child Development and Education are
crucial elements in ensuring that
children achieve their rights,
particularly their right to personal
[check] development. Early Childhood
Development (ECD) is a new area of
interest and activity for UNICEF in
Bangladesh.
Over recent decades, families,
service providers and policymakers
have seen the survival and physical
development of young children as
their first concern. Only recently
have they started to recognise that
it is just as important to research
and intervene on other aspects of
children’s lives, such as their
cognitive, emotional and social
development.
Children are usually cared for by
several members of their family, but
mothers are generally the primary
carers. There are many positive
practices in the care of young
children in Bangladesh but there are
also important gaps in what many
families know and understand about
childcare. A Knowledge, Attitude and
Practise (KAP) survey carried out in
2001 highlighted the need for an ECD
project in Bangladesh.
With reference to 12 guiding
principles identified for ECD in
Bangladesh [are these the 12
principles? ?], the survey indicates
that most caregivers do not know
enough about the importance of
nurturing and age-appropriate early
learning in early childhood
development.......Read
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Children’s Income |
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The earnings of the children vary
greatly from trade to trade and also
from city to city. There are jobs
which receive daily rates, others
weekly rates and others receive
monthly wages. The amounts mentioned
range from 8 Taka’s per day to 500
Taka’s per month.
From FGD’s with NFE Project 3 HTR
Learner’s in Dhaka, Chittagong,
Rajshahi and Khulna conducted by
Protikriti Communications......Read
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Bangladesh Country Paper-2006 |
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Bangladesh, with a population of
over 130 million, is one the most
densely populated countries in the
world. The population growth rate
has, however, shown a marked decline
over the last decade, from 204 per
cent in 1995 to 1.7 per cent at
present. About half of the
population (65.3 million) is
children under 18 years of age.
Bangladesh has been ranked 139th
among 177 countries in the Human
development Index (HDI, 2005). It
economy characterized by low levels
of income, and the per capita Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) for 2003 was
estimated at USD 376 with a GDP
growth rate of 5.3 per cent in real
terms. The national poverty
incidence fell from 59 per cent in
1991/92 to 50 per cent in 2000.
Progress in poverty reduction (a
rate of one per cent per year)
during the 90s is linked to
accelerated growth in income and
consumption expenditure.
Introduction of sound macroeconomic
management measures such as the
reduction of fiscal deficits and the
promotion of export-led growth have
also contributed to this positive
trend....
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