Dhaka, Aug. 7 -- A significant number of underprivileged children in Bangladesh suffer from learning poverty, particularly in developing skills in foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN), despite the government investing a huge amount of money every year in primary education through the mega programme PEDP-4 alongside other discrete initiatives of INGOs & NGOs.

Development partners have also made substantial contributions alongside the government in the PEDP-4 bringing inclusive qualitative changes in children's learning at primary level of education.

However, the desired outcomes in improving the quality of inclusive learning have not been achieved, and the country continues to grapple with the burden of debt as lion parts of the huge...