Dhaka 29 March – Access to Information (a2i) Programme of Prime Minister’s Office and BRAC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at SSF briefing room of Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday. The aim of the MoU is to coordinate technical and vocational training with general education. Kabir Bin Anwar, Director General (Administration) and Project Director of a2i Programme and Asif Saleh, Senior Director (Strategy, Communication and Empowerment) of BRAC signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organization.Under this MoU signing, a2i Program and BRAC will jointly work to increase efficiency of mediocre students of class nine-ten and will assist these students to specialize in one particular trade. Under this initiative, students will receive expertise certificate from technical Board alongside SSC certificate. If a student fails SSC examination, he or she will be able to engage in employment opportunities by submitting National Skill Certificate. Noted that, every year almost 17 million students takes part in SSC examination, of which nearly two million fails. Many of these students gets deviated and in turn involves themselves in heinous activities. At present, a2i programme and BRAC will jointly collaborate to implement the initiative in ten 10 districts. The programme if implemented successfully will bring about positive changes in students and make them skilled manpower of Bangladesh.
To implement ‘Vision 2021’ and to turn Bangladesh into a middle income country, there is no alternate to enhancing skills of communities. a2i Program has taken an important initiative called “skills for employment” to ensure sustainable employment for all and increasing per capita remittance. Under this initiative, expertise in collaboration with the scholarship, apprenticeship programs for skills development, skills and employment in garments sector, and the Alia Madrasa and Qawmi students skills development, self-employment programs for the mosque’s Imam-Muazzin, disadvantaged rural women’s skills development, Determination of employment demand in the national and international market; recognition of skilled worker’s previous skills are mentionable.
Naimuzzaman Mukta, People’s Perspective Specialist of a2i; Asif Saleh, Senior Director (Strategy, Communication and Empowerment) of BRAC; Tahsinah Ahmed, Director (Skills Development) of BRAC; senior officials of a2i Programme and BRAC were present in this MoU signing Programme. – Press release
