Staff Reporter
The World Bank has dropped a broad hint that it would either abandon or influence the Government to “reform” the Female Secondary School Stipend Programme (FSSSP), an official project financed by it, which earned global acclaim for Bangladesh due to its success to trigger higher girls’ enrollment in school than that of other third world countries, including India and Pakistan.
Blaming the FSSSP programme, which had been replicated in many countries of the world as a important tool for development and empowerment of women as well as creating enlightened mothers, for generating a “boys left behind” phenomenon, the World Bank (WB) on Thursday said the Government policymakers should seriously reconsider or reform the project. [Read more]