11th Annual Interpa Conference : 22nd Executive Board Meeting & General Council Meeting On "Digitalization of Policing"

• Organizer: BacBon Limited

• Duration:12th - 14th September 2022

• Venue: Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka Hotel

Brief of Activities:

11th Annual INTERPA Conference with the Theme of “Digitalization of Policing" and 22nd Executive Board Meeting & General Council Meeting were held on the dates of 12th-14th September of 2022, hosted by Bangladesh Police Staff College, with the participation of 116 representatives of 39 countries.

This international event was organized by BacBon Limited.

• Client Name: Keirinkan Japan

• Duration: 31 March 2022

• Funded by: Keirinkan Japan

• Venue: The Westin, Dhaka

The First International Conference on Digital Education in Bangladesh

• Organizer: Jointly BacBon and Center on Budget and Policy (CBP), University of Dhaka

• Duration:1st September 2015

• Funded by: Net-Learning Inc. Japan, KJS Co. Ltd. Japan, Daffodil International University, and Datasoft BD Ltd.

• Venue: Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka

Support to Quality Enhancement in Primary Education - Implementation of Digital Platform for Teacher Development.

• Client Name:Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Duration:June 2021 to August 2022

• Funded by: Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Venue:Grand Oriental Hotel, Gulshan 1, Dhaka and Different PTIs.

As part of the service, BacBon has undertaken the following activities:

a) engage ten professional experts to serve as teacher coaches following agreed-upon selection criteria with ADB and the Department of Primary Education (DPE) at the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education;.

b) support the preparation of user manuals for the digital teacher development platform for concerned stakeholders, notably one manual specifically for teachers and one manual for teacher-coaches;

c) support the preparation of formative assessment content for the digital platform;

d) work closely with the key stakeholders, including concerned local education officials, teacher educators, headteachers, and others, to contribute to the design of training on the ICT teacher development platform and develop training session agendas, presentations, and resources for teachers and coaches;

e) implement separate user training for teachers and coaches, government officials, and headteachers of primary schools;

f) manage coaches conducting at least two field visits per month to each selected school under the project;

f) manage coaches conducting at least two field visits per month to each selected school under the project;

g) manage coaches conducting at least three classroom observations during each school visit using the digital platform and providing feedback to teachers utilizing feedback messages suggested through the digital platform;

h) support the preparation of a manual for a hybrid coaching and mentoring approach that includes a combination of (physical, online, and phone-based) coaching and mentoring;

i) conduct /manage coaches conducting hybrid coaching and mentoring approach with teachers in select schools using the digital platform;

j) support capacity building for government officials for utilizing the digital platform; and

k) provide users' feedback for improving the design of the digital platform and coaching system;

In the training part, 480 primary school teachers, 104 government officials, and 120 head teachers received training on formative assessment and used the digital platform to conduct the formative assessment in the classroom.

The Project for Capacity Building of Nursing Services

• Client Name: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Duration:June 2019 to 2022

• Funded by: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Venue:Dhaka Nursing College

Brief of Activities:

JICA is enhancing the health systems of Bangladesh strengthening through cooperation with the GOB based on the analysis that human resources for health, especially nurses, have issues in number, quality, and unequal distribution in urban and rural areas. Considering the overall improvement of nursing in Bangladesh, the project aims to improve nursing education in Bangladesh.

Implementing agencies of the project are Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM), Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council (BNMC), Dhaka Nursing College (DNC), Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The scope of work of BacBon Limited includes conducting a workshop for the selected instructors of Dhaka Nursing College and providing training and technical assistance to make them knowledgeable about e-Learning content development tools and techniques. BacBon conducted ten workshops for the instructors on making e-Learning content and uploading it in Learning Management System (LMS). In addition, BacBon provided online assistance and training to the instructors whenever required. A total of 15 nurses were trained in the project.

‘Technical Implementation & Impact Evaluation of e-Learning Pilot Project’

• Client Name:United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

• Duration:December 2021 to April 2022

• Funded by: United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Brief of Activities:

The UNDP Bangladesh Accelerator Lab is implementing a pilot e-learning project collaborating with Volunteer Association Bangladesh (VAB) to evaluate the learning outcome of secondary level students after they receive the opportunity of digital learning. Under the piloting project, the lab will support students who are deprived of quality learning due to a lack of quality teaching staff and other resources. Moreover, the situation has further been worsened by the Impact of COVID-19. Through the current intervention, the accelerator Lab will offer additional learning opportunities to supplement the existing education through e-Learning.

However, effective e-Learning depends on quality e-contents, affordable hardware, and reliable and robust software, which is usually inaccessible to digitally underprivileged students, especially young girls. Hence, the Accelerator Lab such as provides technical implementation support for the project and has undertaken a data-driven approach to generate new learnings on and around the project. The lab has distributed 99 digital tablets to 191 students, including 22 teachers, on a shared basis in nine schools of Sathkhira, Kurigram, Nilphamary, Pabna, and Jashore. The initial part of the project has already been implemented from 1 October to 30 November 2021.

So far, the project has supported these students in their preparation for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination that began on 14 November 2021. The project offered students e-contents (videos, scripts, tests) on which the 2021 SSC examination in the Science stream is being held – Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. The e-contents were uploaded and delivered to the students via tablets. The Accelerator Lab also put in place a Learning Management System (LMS) for the project that serves as a Monitoring and Evaluation system that tracks hours spent by students on videos, scripts, and tests related to the learning contents. Moving forward, the Accelerator Lab is planning to expand the scope of the pilot to serve upcoming 2022 SSC candidates and evaluate the impact of the e-learning pilot project through necessary monitoring and research.

As a part of content development, BacBon has developed e-Contents for the required subject mentioned in the ToR. These contents have been installed on the existing Learning Management System (LMS), where Science, Humanities, and Business studies contents are already available. BacBon also procured 50 tablets as a part of deliverables and handed them over to VAB. A total of 159 tablets, with e-Learning contents and exams, will be used as supporting learning material for around 318 students for the upcoming Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam 2022 in 7 districts specified by the VAB. All tablet, including contents, has been successfully handed over to VAB.

For the pilot project, BacBon has conducted a Baseline survey as a part of an impact evaluation research to find the effectiveness of the piloting eLearning intervention on the educational performance of the selected students. It will compare the learning outcome of the intervention for the students who have received TABs with eLearning content with the same number of students from the selected schools who have not received eLearning opportunities.

As a part of the service, BacBon has taken the following activities:

This assignment aims to conduct a pilot project for the impact evaluation of e-learning by supporting 318 students in 18 schools (Satkhira, Kurigram, Nilphamary, Pabna, Jashore, Bandarban, and Chittagong). The students of these schools received Tablet-based learning materials for the upcoming 2022 SSC examination. BacBon provided the following supports to achieve the objective.

- Provide required e-contents in the form of videos, scripts, and tests as per the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) curriculum, upload, and install in the existing UNDP LMS for delivery to students via tablets.

- Conduct workshops for the students and project personnel to educate them about using the e-Contents of the Tab and track progress.

- Deliver 60 tablets matching the specifications of the current deployment. The existing and new tablets together will be distributed to the 2022 batch students on a shared basis for eLearning.

- Provide technical implementation support and monitor the pilot project.

Upon completion of the pilot project, data will be analyzed based on students' and schools' learning behavior and performance through data available in the LMS to showcase valuable trends, patterns, and insights.

A baseline survey will be conducted to assess the current and the pre-pilot implementation status of all relevant indicators, and an end-line survey to evaluate the progress, results, and impact of the pilot intervention (including samples from non-tablet users) and deliver an end-line report.

Strengthening Mathematics and Science Education in Primary Education Project in Bangladesh (A TV Program as a response to COVID-19 Pandemic study loss), JICA Support Program 3.

• Client Name:PADECO Co., Ltd.

• Duration:December 2020 to December 2021

• Funded by: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Venue:BacBon Multimedia Studio

Brief of Activities:

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the learning activities of around 38.6 million students have come to a halt. One of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) was developing and disseminating learning content adapted to different platforms, including TV, radio, mobile and online modalities. Television broadcasting of pre-recorded lessons started from March 29 for secondary and from April 7, 2020, for primary level students to minimize the adverse impacts of school closure on learning. In this respect, the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE), with the support from the a2i program, broadcasted the digital content for primary level students on Sangsad TV. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) led the initiative for content developments.

BacBon is proud to be part of this covid-19 recovery initiative with JICA. As a part of the contract, BacBon limited developed 380 video content on mathematics subjects. For this purpose, BacBon provided comprehensive training to the selected primary school on video content development.