The agreement supports the BRAC Education Programme from January 2006 to expand BRAC’s Education Programme in Bangladesh. The project, jointly funded by CIDA, DFID, NOVIB and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, is now in Phase IV and will be completed in June 2009. Previously BRAC has received 30 million NOK (around 300 million Taka) from the Norwegian Embassy for this programme. Through this agreement cost-effective and quality education will be provided to out-of-school poor children, of whom more than 64% will be girls and particularly to children living in remote areas, or children with special needs or from ethnic minorities. Capacity building training will be given to BRAC teachers, 98% of whom are women. Around 855,500 drop-out/non-enrolled children from poor families across the country will be provided with primary education through 18,500 BRAC Primary Schools, 5,350 BRAC Adolescent Primary Schools and 5,500 Education Support Programme schools. An additional 29,000 children with disabilities will be enrolled into BRAC schools and benefit through provision of assistive devices. Cooperation with local NGOs will be extended to reach remote areas through 2,500 schools for providing education to 60,000 ethnic minority students. 6,000 Kishori Kendros (Adolescent Centres) will be operated over the 5-year period giving life-skills courses and continuing education opportunities to 223,750 adolescents, most of whom are girls. A further 1700 secondary schools will be covered under the Post Primary Basic Education component to improve their management and training to Head Teachers, subject teachers and School Management Committee (SMC) members. The Continuing Education component of BRAC’s Education programme will enhance facilities and equipment in 1700 schools and equip 2,130 existing Gonokendros (Community Libraries) with Information Technology services, all with funding from this agreement.