Table 4.

FSP timeline

1977	Bangladesh Association for Community Education (BACE) set up by Dr. Ellen Sattar (education specialist) and Dr. Mohammed Abdus Satter (former Secretary for Population Control and Family Planning in the Ministry of Health and Population Control, GoB). The stipend programme for girls and boys from poor families at the primary level established
1982	First form of the Female Secondary Stipend Programme piloted in Shahrasti upazila and Kaharole upazila by BACE—supported by USAID and the Asia Foundation
1990	Primary education becomes compulsory and free
1990	Free tuition introduced for girls in class VI-VIII
1992	NORAD takes over funding the FSP—increased coverage to 7 upazilas
1994	Nation-wide FSP launched, funded by NORAD, the World Bank and GoB, ADB, and GoB for students in class VI and IX
	30 metropolitan upazilas excluded in Khulna, Dhaka, Chittagong, and Rajshahi because they have better facilities
	270 upazilas covered by GoB: FSSP
	118 upazilas covered by World Bank and GoB: FSSAP
	53 upazilas covered by ADB: SEDIP/SESIP
1996	The stipend programme extended to girls in class VII and VIII
1997	NORAD takes on another 12 upazilas: coverage 282 upazilas
2000	Enrollment of girls reported at over 50%
2000	Programme received a World Bank gold medal for excellence
2004	Conference in Shanghai co-hosted by the Chinese Government at the World Bank's ‘Reducing poverty, sustaining growth’—FSP was held up as an example of a successful scale-up of an intervention
2004	All programmes renewed for a five-year period

Adapted from Raynor, 2004 (32); ADB=Asian Development Bank; FSP=Female Secondary Stipend Project; FSSAP=Female Secondary School Assistance Project; GoB=Government of Bangladesh; NORAD=Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation; SEDIP=Secondary Education Development and Improvement Project; SESIP=Secondary Education Sector Improvement Program; USAID=United States Agency for International Development