With support of UN Women, BNPS recently developed a comprehensive curriculum including flash cards and video clips as supplementary materials with a view to promote community dialogue of women and community leaders to deliver and facilitate community level discussion session among women and community leaders to promote peace, social cohesion and de-radicalization.

The curriculum was designed to deliver and to facilitate community level discussion session with participation of women, youth and community leaders to promote social cohesion and de-radicalization. The curriculum sessions were developed in concerning of six subject matters: (i) Social Cohesion and Peace; (ii) Human Rights (UDHR), Constitutional and Citizens’ Rights, and Equal Citizenship (iii) Gender Equality and Equity, Women’s Rights, and the Empowerment of Women; (iv) Diversity, Pluralistic Society and Mutual Tolerance; (v) Violence Extremism in Bangladesh; and (iv) Promote Community Resilience, and Cohesive and Peaceful Society.

Two video clips were developed in line with the curriculum sessions’ objective, this will be used as the method to achieve the specific objective of the sessions related to VE, diversity, pluralistic society and mutual tolerance. Duration of each video clips are 5 to 8 minutes.

Three sets of flash cards (8-10 cards in each set) were developed using drawing illustration and photographs in a simplified manner in connection with the core concepts of the session namely social cohesion, diversity, pluralistic society and mutual tolerance. The flash cards will be used as complementary tool in the sessions. The consultant team prepared the draft sketch of Flash cards on three particular subject matters. Specific feedback was given to the consultant from BNPS and the consultant developed final product accommodating all feedback.