Opportunity Information: Apply for 72038821RFA00007
USAID's Shobai Miley Shikhi (Everyone Learns Together) Activity is a Bangladesh-focused education initiative designed to improve learning outcomes for children with disabilities in government primary schools. The core idea is to move beyond access alone and concentrate on whether children with disabilities are actually learning, progressing, and gaining the skills they need to continue through the education system. The activity is structured to help make disability-inclusive education a practical reality inside classrooms and across school environments, so that children with disabilities can participate meaningfully and achieve stronger results in foundational areas like literacy and numeracy.
The opportunity emphasizes strengthening government service delivery for inclusive education. In practical terms, this means supporting the systems and day-to-day functions that allow government primary schools to identify, include, teach, and support children with disabilities effectively. Alongside system strengthening, the activity also focuses on creating inclusive school environments and improving instruction, recognizing that learning outcomes improve when teaching methods, materials, school management, and accessibility considerations are aligned to students' needs rather than treating disability inclusion as an add-on.
While the main focus is government primary schools, the activity also plans to support a small number of private schools. In addition, it will test and identify promising models through the non-formal education system, such as non-formal learning centers and community-based groups. This testing component signals an interest in approaches that can reach children who may be excluded from formal settings or who need alternative or complementary learning pathways, with the goal of finding workable methods that improve learning outcomes for children with disabilities.
A key expected result is that participating children with disabilities will develop life skills along with foundational literacy and numeracy. These competencies are positioned as essential stepping stones for staying in school, advancing through grade levels, and ultimately improving longer-term economic opportunities after completing education. In other words, the activity links inclusive primary education not just to immediate classroom performance, but also to broader outcomes like employability and future livelihoods.
From an implementation standpoint, the recipient is expected to work closely with the Government of Bangladesh and align programming with the SEND framework for Inclusive Education under PEDP4 (the Fourth Primary Education Development Program). This requirement reflects USAID's intent to support government-led priorities and integrate efforts into national systems, rather than building parallel structures. The goal is to reinforce sustainability and enable inclusive education practices to continue and scale beyond the life of the award.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity from USAID Bangladesh (USAID-Dhaka) issued as a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement by the agency during implementation. The opportunity number is 72038821RFA00007, and it is listed under CFDA 98.001. Eligibility is unrestricted, meaning it is open to a wide range of entity types unless additional eligibility details in the full notice specify otherwise. USAID anticipated making one award, with an award ceiling of up to $18,000,000. The notice was created on March 8, 2021, with an original closing date of April 15, 2021.Apply for 72038821RFA00007
- The Agency for International Development, Bangladesh USAID-Dhaka in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "USAID’s Shobai Miley Shikhi (Everyone Learns Together) Activity" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 08, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 15, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $18,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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