Making a difference for women in Bangladesh
As part of its digital augmentation project, COL is supporting Better Future for Women (BFW) in Bangladesh to build institutional capacity for systematically adopting open, distance and e-learning (ODeL).
BFW will enhance its capacity to design, develop, digitise and deliver online technical and vocational education and training (TVET) courses to increase the access of at least 3,000 female youths to TVET skills, as well as employment and livelihood opportunities in rural areas of Bangladesh — specifically the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest areas in the country’s southwestern coastal region. Female youths living in these areas struggle to receive vocational training. Climate change has also made natural disasters common, leading to challenges and closures for educational and training facilities.
Technologyenabled Women’s TVET Corners have been established at the Sundarban Adibashi Munda Sangstha (SAMS) premises in the Satkhira district and the Rural Reconstruction Foundation (RRF) premises in the Jashore district, as well as in two mangrove villages in the Khulna and Satkhira districts. The TVET Corners at SAMS and RRF are equipped with computer and Internet connectivity, allowing women to access skills training online for the first time.
BFW collaborates with local community-based organisations and TVET stakeholders to extend digitised skill-training courses to women by strengthening the communities’ information and technology infrastructures, including the provision of green and renewable energy sources.
