Shopner Bhubon Education

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; Bangladesh

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Shopner Bhubon Education is a nonprofit venture that seeks to improve education attainment among primary school students in rural Bangladesh.

Shopner Bhubon Education plans to run Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) learning camps in a resource-limited and flood-prone setting in Gaidbandha, in northern Bangladesh. They will conduct workshops for 300 students between Grades 1 and 3 across 10 schools over 6 months, dividing them into groups based on their learning needs rather than age or grade, dedicating time to basic skills rather than focusing solely on the curriculum and regularly assessing their performance, rather than relying only on end-of-year examinations. This will be the first implementation of the TaRL model at scale in Bangladesh. In addition, the pilot will include students who are returning to school after over a year of being at home because of the pandemic. This program will provide evidence on how to help students catch up in their critical reading and writing skills post-pandemic.

All 3 founding members of Shopner Bhubon Education are very knowledgeable of the local school system in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, the curriculum and educational needs of the area and very enthusiastic to help in the development of the region. Shadman has extensive experience running RCTs and scaling interventions at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the World Bank. Shahada has extensive teaching experience in the pilot region, currently working as the headmistress at a local school. She will be leading the volunteer recruitment, training and monitoring. Raeesa is an education manager who has worked extensively on education research and policy in Bangladesh, especially in her work for BRAC, a key NGO in the region.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 10 active schools during the pilot phase (2 cycles, 3 months each)

• 50 teachers trained

• 1,000 students start participating in our pilot program

• 2,000 total students start participating in our now piloted program by Year 1

• 50,000 total students start participating in our programs by Year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Shadman Rahman - CEO

Shahada Akter- COO

Raeesa Rahemin- Research Manager

The Now Exchange

SAYANA PRESS CHALLENGE; BANGLADESH

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sayana Press injectable contraceptive. 

Learn more about the Sayana®  Press Challenge and why training health providers to administer Sayana® Press can be particularly valuable for women who prefer injectable contraceptives but don’t have regular access.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

The Now Exchange (TNE) will provide women's health services (starting with free injectable contraceptive access) and strengthen health systems (training clinic staff) within garment factory clinics in Gazipur, Bangladesh. By doing so, TNE aims to use and improve pre-existing health clinics as a channel to reach garment workers - 80% of whom are women - with free services that override existing barriers to health access and choice. TNE will reinforce and share knowledge around various family planning options by a) training on-site health clinic workers and b) distributing information directly to factory workers to enhance their decision-making power.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Give 1000 women access to Sayana Press in Y1

• Scale to at least one more factory in Y2

FOUNDING TEAM

Farah Momen - Co-Founder & CEO

Giulia Bova - Co-Founder & Chief of Health Access

Unnoti

COOK STOVE CHALLENGE; BANGLADESH

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Efficient, clean-burning cook stoves.

Learn more about the Cook Stove Challenge and how clean cook stoves reduce health and safety risks, lower fuel expenses, and help reduce poverty.  

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

In rural and slum areas, families in Bangladesh confront large amounts of indoor air pollution caused by choice of cooking fuel, cooking location, construction material, and poor ventilation. Exposure to such indoor air pollution leads to harmful diseases like tuberculosis, asthma, and other respiratory diseases and disproportionately affect women and children. In Bangladesh, more than 90% of the total population uses biomass fuel for cooking and other heating purposes. The health burden of indoor air pollution exposure in the country is one of the largest in the world. 

Unnoti will work with a local manufacturer of efficient cook stoves and sell these within the rural district of Comilla at an affordable price (about half the price of similar cook stoves on the market). The team will conduct surveys and awareness raising activities within the community. 

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 300 households in 5 villages during the pilot 
• Distribute 250 stoves during the pilot 
• Benefit 500 people during the pilot 
• Reach 35 households across 12 villages by the end of year 1 
• Distribute 1,000 cook stoves by the end of year 1 
• Benefit 3,000 people by the end of year 2 

FOUNDING TEAM

Tanjima Hoque - Managing Director

Shah Md. Nasir Rahat - Marketing Director

Md. Intisher Rahman - Human Resources Director 

Maheen Absar Neha - Exeutive Director

Access to Education

FLIPPED CLASSROOM CHALLENGE

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Flipped classroom. 

Learn more about the Flipped Classroom Challenge and why new education models, like flipping the classroom or deskilling a class curriculum, offer a solution to the vast teacher shortages in the developing world.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Access to Education (A2e) is an online educational platform that ensures remote areas students access to quality instructive videos and live classes, complementary to their academic curriculum that is facilitated by trained instructors through a multimedia classroom set up in each partner school. It is working to create a bridge between privileged and deprived students where former one will be able to share their learning experience with later one and synergize the power of education to break all barriers.

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Ayesha Meem - Co-Founder

Mostofa Sadab - Co-Founder

Samiha Nusrat - Co-Founder