Korean aid and UNICEF help 18,000 Bangladeshi girls gain job skills
In short
- KOICA and UNICEF ran a five-year initiative in Bangladesh, launched in 2022.
- It reached out-of-school adolescent girls and young women across seven regions, including Dhaka.
- The programme linked participants to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
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The programme targeted girls who had left school, a group that often has few formal routes into work. Vocational training paired with employment and entrepreneurship links gives them a practical way to earn. The Korea Herald report gives the reach figure but the source text is cut off before the full employment rate, so the outcome is only partly known.
From The Korea Herald
South Korea's state-run aid agency has helped some 18,000 out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Bangladesh gain vocational skills and access employment and entrepreneurship opportunities through a five-year initiative conducted in partnership with UNICEF, the agency said Monday. The Korea International Cooperation Agency said the program, launched in 2022 across seven regions of Bangladesh, including the capital Dhaka, achieved a cumulative employment and entrepreneurship linkage rat
