The European Commission has called for proposals on non-formal primary education in Bangladesh from the NGOs and international organisations active in the country.
The purpose of this call for proposals is to bring qualitative improvement and quantitative expansion of non-formal primary education services of NGOs, thereby creating, maintaining, and strengthening links with the formal primary education system in Bangladesh. The NGOs interested to submit proposals will have to be registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau.
European Commission is to grant 29 million euros in total with 3.5 to 9.6 million euros for each individual project and it will finance 60 to 95 percent of total project costs. Duration of each project will be between 36 and 48 months.
Detailed information on the call is available at the website of the European Commission's Delegation to Bangladesh at: www.eudelbangladesh.org from where relevant forms and documents can also be downloaded.
Hard copies may be obtained from the Delegation's premises (Plot # 7, Road # 84, Gulshan 2, Dhaka -1212) during normal opening hours.
An information session on this call for proposals is scheduled for April 3, 2006. Exact time and date will be posted at the Delegation website. The deadline for proposal submission is 25 June 2006, says a press release.
