Skill dev education helps reduce child marriage 62pc
UNB
Adolescent girls and boys can earn six times higher after receiving skill development education, a new study reveals.
Child marriage also tends to reduce by 62 per cent as such training boosts their awareness and self-confidence, the study shows, reports UNB. The information was revealed yesterday at a seminar titled power of apprenticeships highlighting the economic and social impact of skill training. Labour Secretary Mikail Shipar attended the programme as the chief guest.
Chaired by senior director, strategy, communications and empowerment, Brac Asif Saleh, the event was addressed, among others, by Ashok Kumar Biswas, director general (additional secretary), Directorate of Technical Education, Salahuddin Kasem Khan, co-chairman, and ABM Khorshed Alam, additional secretary, National Skill Development Council, and Tahsinah Ahmed, director, Skills Development Programme, Brac.
Stressing the importance of coordination among 23 ministries and 35 departments, the Labour Secretary said, Were trying to bring the entire programme of skill development under one umbrella.
For this, weve undertaken an initiative led by the Prime Minister to form Skill Development Authority over the next 2 to 3 months. He also called on Brac and other NGOs to work hand in hand with the government in areas including skill development and modernisation of agriculture to achieve sustainable development.
Asif Saleh focused on long-term partnerships to bring effective pace to skill development initiatives.
We have resource constraints and so we hope that the government will come forward to take this initiative further, he said.
The first study was carried out in 2012-2015 in seven districts namely, Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Rajshahi, Khulna, Chittagong and Sylhet.
A total of 573 adolescents, and of them 280 received skill development education from Brac and the rest 293 not having any such education, took part in the study.
The analysis of the data collected showed that child marriage among the girls receiving the education occurred 62 per cent less than their counterpart. The second study, which focused on the impact of skill development education on living standard, was conducted in 15 districts. Of the participants in the study, 444 were doing apprenticeships while 416 did not have any such training.
