ISLAMIC FOUNDATION

BANGLADESH(IFB)

Farzana Islam,Fatematujzahara,Nusrat

Jahan Lia,Munmun Rahman and

Shanta Dam.

IER,DU.

INSTITUTIONAL PROFILEType of Organisation : Autonomous

Affiliation : Ministry of Religious Affairs.

Establishment: 28th march 1975

Act: ‘The Islamic Foundation Act’

Founder: Bangabandhu Shikh Mujibur Rahman

Main focus on: Islamic education, research and activities

Mailing Address : Sher-E Bangla Nagar, Agargaon,

Dhaka-1207

Head of the Organisation Shamim Mohammad Afzal

(Name and Designation): Director General

Official languages: Bengali, English, Arabic

Website: www.islamicfoundationbd.com

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Darul Ulum(house of

learning) in 1959

ISLAMIC ACADEMY in

1960

IN BANGLADESHI

PERIOD(1975)

BAITUL MUKARRAM

SOCIETY

THE ISLAMIC

ACADEMY

ISLAMIC FOUNDATION

IN PAKISTANI PERIOD(1959-1960)

VISION: Preaching and propagating the values and ideals of

Islam as the only complete code of life acceptable tothe Almighty Allah.

Imbuing the people of Bangladesh with the ideals ofIslam.

FUNCTIONS:Head Office : Dhaka,

which is supported by

• 6 divisional offices and 64 district offices, as

well as

•7 Imam Training Academy Centers,

•31 Islamic Mission Centers and

• 9 Development project

MAN POWER

In revenue sector-1462

In development

sector-681

Total-2143

FUND

Fund

Own income

Government grant

Other sources

ORGANOGRAM

Director general(01)

Secretary (01)

Director (14)

Project director (07)

Project manager (01)

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

At present Islamic Foundation Bangladesh implements various NFE programs:

•Publication activities.

•Pre-primary, Adult Literacy and neo-literacy program.

•Mosque-based education programs (5th phase).

•Establishment of Mosque based library (6th phase).

•Expand and modernize the central library of IFB.

•Invitation to religious practices and culture program.

•Digitalizing the activity of IFB and set up a digital archive.

•Imam training activities.

•Leaders of Influence (A combined program with USAID and ASIA FOUNDATION).

List of the new NFE programs

implementation by IFB

Establishment of Islamic Mission Health Service and

Imam Training Complex , Gopalganj .

Reinforcing village economy by using solar

technology program

List of possible implementable

NFE program by IFB Primary school based values and ethical development

education program

Mosque-based education programs

The Foundation has a big project called Child and Mass

Education under its mosque-based programs. The

project was launched in 1992 with the following

objectives:

Organizing mosque-based pre-primary schooling

for children aged between four and five years and

through it, increasing the rate of enrolment in

primary schools;

Imparting preparatory education to children aged

between six and ten years who do not go to school

and prepare them for enrolment in primary schools;

Offering nonformal education to young boys and

girls aged between 11 and 14 years who have

dropped out or have never taken schooling;

Strengthening and expanding the on-going

mosque-based non-formal education and imparting

literacy to the adult population aged between 15

and 35 years ; and

Helping the literate or semi-literate keep up the

reading habit and learning process throughout life.

By 2001, about 9,80,000 people were made literate

under the project

Stages of mosque based child

and mass education programPhase span Target

level

Extra

enrollment

Success(

%)

1st phase 1993-1995 74880 19710 126%

2nd phase 1996-2000 611520 112320 111%

3rd phase 2000-2005 1633600 9440 101%

4th phase 2006-2008 1677600 100%

5th phase 2009-2013 5286000

INNOVATION OF THE

ORGANIZATION:

NFE programs for prisoners

Imam training project.

NFE programs for prisoners:

IFB operates adult literacy centers to educate the male

and female prisoners.

Imam training project:

IFB undertook a project called Imam Training Project

under its Imam Training academy.

About the ITA program

Centers: Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal,

Dinajpur.

Activities: Educating Imams and Muajjins about the fundamental

thoughts in Islam and train them up in mass education,

family health, agriculture and forestry, animal husbandry

and fishing, forestation, First aid, Health etc

Goals and

objectives:

Making imams capable of earning after their training so

that they become fir for contributing to the financial and

societal development

Manpower 195

Collaborations of ITA with different

projectsCollaboration with UNFPA:

PROJECT : Involvement of Religious Leaders in Human

……… Resource Development

INITIATION: 1999 (1st phase), 2003 (2nd phase)

OBJECTIVES: To train at least 16000 Imams on reproductive

………… health, family welfare, HIV AIDS prevention, gender

……… …… included1850 Hindu and 420 Buddhist religious

…………… leader in the context of their respective religion.

Collaboration with USAID :

PROJECT: Leaders Outreach Activity

OBJECTIVES: Over 18 month period nearly 5000 imams will learn

…………... about activities in democracy, human rights, family

…………... planning, economic development and several other

…………... USAID program.

Collaboration with USAID and THE ASIA

FOUNDATION:

Project : Leaders of Influence

Funding: USAID

Association: THE ASIA FOUNDATION

Activities: As a part of 45 day training course The

………… Asia Foundation sponsors 3 day

………… orientation program for imams to visit

………… their sites of various developments

……….... activities in Bangladesh.

Project implementation:

Phases Span Turget

1st 2004-2006 5000 more

2nd 2007-2011 20000

CHALLENGES:

•The Publication activities face

challenged to send books to mosque at

remote areas. This allegation is often

found in newspaper that books are stored

in IFA offices idly for many kind of

complexities.

SUM UP It is quite challenging for any organization to carry

out NFE activity in this developing country, more

importantly, Non formal education is not a

mainstream activity of Islamic Foundation. Its

mission is preaching and propagating the values and

ideals of Islam to people. But when it started to

arising NFE program comprehensively it never had

to turn back. It is day by day becoming more

successful to work with this sub-sector of education.

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