London-based the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA) mWomen programme declared BRAC as its ‘Innovation Fund’ grant recipient of Tk 14.0 million for development of English skills of adolescent girls.
BRAC will partner with Robi Axiata and the British Council in Bangladesh to launch a mobile service for adolescent girls in developing their English skills for improving their employment prospects, said a press release.
A total of 3,000 adolescent girls from BRAC Adolescent Development Programme (ADP) have been selected for the first batch of 5-month-long training. They will work as peer leaders to disseminate their learning to their communities.
In addition to this, Robi Axiata will run the training for 8,000 ADP clubs across Bangladesh after the successful completion of the pilot batch.
The British Council will adapt a curriculum of this training course. BRAC and the British Council plan to provide users who have completed all modules of the course with a certificate of achievement through a mobile identity solution developed by Robi Axiata.
The GSM Association (GSMA), formed in 1995, is an association of mobile operators and related companies devoted to supporting the standardising, deployment and promotion of the GSM mobile telephone system.
The GSMA mWomen Global Development Alliance is a programme in partnership with USAID, Australian DFAT, GSMA and Visa Inc. It works to increase women’s access to and use of mobiles and life-enhancing, value-added services in the developing world.
