EIABD

English in Action (EIA) has been initiated at the request of the Government of Bangladesh and is funded by a grant from the UK Government. The implementation of the Project is being managed by BMB Mott MacDonald, and supported by a number of partners including the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST); Friends in Village Development Bangladesh, (FIVDB); the Open University (OU); and Underprivileged Children’s Educational Project (UCEP), BMB Mott MacDonald has managed similar projects and programmes in India and Nepal, and beyond South Asia in Indonesia, South Africa, the Sudan and the Yemen. BBC WST is the international development arm of the BBC and works worldwide with BBC Learning English on educational and English learning initiatives. OU UK offers a very substantial resource spread across the teaching of English and teacher education and use of multi-media throughout the world. FIVDB and UCEP bring the enormous success of their schools to enable the piloting of initiatives.