Secondary Education Stipend Programme, SESP
Basic Information
Country
Geographic area
Institutions and agencies involved
Programme type
Population group
Children
Programme Details
Programme objectives
The objectives of the Secondary Education Stipend Programme (SESP) to promote access to secondary education, preparing students for employment opportunities and decreasing dropout rates.
Conditionalities (if any)
To qualify for the stipends, each of the students have to attend at least 75% classes and to secure a certain percentage of marks in examinations (students of Class 6 and 7 have to acquire minimum 33% marks and students of class 8 and 9 have to obtain 40% marks in the final examination).
Coverage
The Secondary Education Stipend Programme (SESP) reach about 46.2 per cent of the total population aged 6–17 in the country. 1,000,000 people were covered under 2017-2018 budget. 833,000 people are expected to be covered under the 2018-2019 budget
Programme expenditure
Targeting and eligiblity
Targeting methods
Means Test
Categorical Targeting
School commitees deliberation
Targeted areas
Target groups
Under the SESP, 30% of the unmarried girls and 10% of the boys belonging to poor families would receive stipends.
Eligibility criteria
School-based committees apply a ‘pro-poor’ methodology to choose the poorest students to participate in the programme.
Coverage and other information
Type of benefits
Cash and payments of tuition and examination fees
Amount of benefits
(i) Monthly stipend: BDT 100 for grades 6 and 7; BDT 120 for grade 8; BDT 150 for grades 9 and 10. (ii) Monthly tuition fee: BDT 15 for grades 6, 7 and 8; BDT 20 for grades 9 and 10. (iii) Exam fees: BDT 750 for grade 10.
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients
Poor children on grades 6 to 10.
MIS
Database of beneficiaries and an MIS can be generated on demand. However, neither of the ministries or their respective Directorates own nor administer the database which still rests with the outsourced private company