Organizational Information

Organization Name

Centre for Mass Education in Science ( CMES )

Created : Oct 18 2007 / Modified : Oct 19 2007

Contact

Address:	House # 828, Road # 19 (old), Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209, Bangladesh
Tel:	8802 8111898	Fax:	88-02-8013559
URL:	http://www.cmes-bd.org	Email:	cmes@citechco.net

Organization Structure

Date of Establishment:: 1978
Number of Staff:: staff of about 1025 of which 85 work in the various Departments in its head quarter
Sections:
Members:
Name of Director:: Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim, Executive Director

Foundation (Budget)

Foundation

0 (0 US Dollar) (Fiscal Yr. )

Annual Budget

83,388,273 Taka (0 US Dollar) (Fiscal Yr. 2001)

Account Settlement

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Main Resources

Introduction of the Organization

Objective:: Introduction
Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES) is a national NGO created in 1978 with an aim to take science and technology to the disadvantaged people as a support to their development. It has been working towards this aim through appropriate mass education, transfer of technology and relevant research & development. It focused its attention on the disadvantaged children and adolescents, specially for the empowerment of the latter through education, technology skills, gender and livelihood. CMES's Adolescent Girls' Program (AGP), started in 1991, has been a pioneering program in this field earning appreciation and inspiring replication home and abroad.

Overall goal
The overall goal is the human resource development through appropriate education and technology skills to be profitably used for a livelihood.

Objectives of the on-going project
i. Basic School model providing quality education and skill training for the adolescent dropouts and non-enrolled opening up livelihood opportunities.
ii. Empowerment of adolescent girls to establish gender equity and to enable them realize their potential economically and socially.
iii. Adaptation of profitable technologies for diversified opportunities for the rural youth.
iv. Dissemination of the models to others including the mainstream for wider impact through replication.

Partnership with

Regular Environmental Education / Education for Sustainable Development Programs

Title	Place	Operational features
Home to Home Work/ Health and Environmental intervention	Program Areas. (20 different parts of the Country)	Imparting education through CMES's Rural Technology Centre, Advanced Basis School and Basic School. Train Teachers and Students * Implementing in the neighboring households through visit, campaigning motivating, monitoring, demonstrating, Exhibition, Seminar, Workshop
Renewable energy - Solar & water purification	Four program area (rural parts of the country)	Demonstration Solar home system Micro-utility Campaigning Training
Adolescent Girls Program, Gender Sessions , Conventions and Social Actions	Program Areas. (20 different parts of the Country)	Tree plantation Preparing sanitary and pit latrine-Polybag burning -Preparing improved oven -Preparing compost -Awareness on clean environment -Drain cleaning -Water purification -Road repairing -Tubewell repairing -Arsenic testing
Sanitary latrine & safe water
Compost & vermincompost

Plans for the next 5 years: Scopes of more environmental works will be incorporated in order to sustain the program more effect fully. Continuation of Basic School System and Adolescent girls' Program with environmental intervention and sustainability

Self Evaluation: Starting with only a few volunteers, the organization now employs more than 1000 competent personnel- a good part of them being technical experts in various aspects of its programs. It has 20 Field Units in various parts of the country which are comprised of 18 Rural Technology Centres (RTC), 59 Advanced Basic Schools (ABS), 318 Basic Schools and many outreach centres for AGP. Some 20,000 students attend its education program at a time, and the number of adolescent girls, boys, and young couples participating in the extended version of AGP is more than 15,000. There are three Field Training Centres, a Central Training Centre and Several Special Laboratories to support the CMES program in addition to its Service Centre.

CMES is working with an eye to the changing economic and technological horizon of the country. Many of the changes have their implications and effects even in the remote rural areas. CMES is striving to create an appropriate human resource there to take advantage of the positive effects of the changes including those brought forth by the process of globalization, while minimizing their negative effects.