| Zusammenfassung: | The objective of this study is to assess the role BRAC's education programme on life
skills knowledge among its graduates. Data were collected from Watch, in three rural
unions of Manikganj district where BRAC has been operating its non-formal primary
education programme since 1980s. All BRAC school graduates, who were women,
married and living in the study villages were included in the sample. The two other
group of married women were also selected at random from the same villages i) who
graduated from formal schools and ii) who never went to any school. The total sample
size was 891 married women.
Findings reveal that life skills knowledge were much higher among BRAC graduates
than formal school graduates. However, no significant difference was observed in
regarding knowledge of legal issues between the women of formal schools and BRAC
graduates. The study concludes that BRAC's education programme had significant role
in raising life skills knowledge of the rural women.
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