DFID funds three partners providing primary education in Bangladesh: the Government of Bangladesh, BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) and UCEP (Under-privileged Children's Education programme). This approach is complimentary to the Government's mainstream education system. BRAC and UCEP only target those children who are omitted from that system.

There is no such official terminology as to ‘adopt’ schools in the Bangladesh education system. Rather, the government categories of primary schooling include: Government primary schools, registered non-government primary schools, experimental schools, community schools, non-registered non-government primary schools, kindergarten, NGO schools, primary sections of secondary schools, Ebtedayee madrasahs, and primary sections of high madrasahs (dakhil, alim, fazil, kamil).

The UK provides support through the Education Sector Support Programme for Nigeria (ESSPIN) to civil society at state level to train and mentor members of 'school based management committees' (SBMCs). This support ensures that SBMC members know what funds are flowing to their school, and allows them to monitor how funds are used to improve the learning environment in the school.

SBMCs are trained to do 'spot checks' to verify and supervise school infrastructure contracts. A 'school report card' and a 'community based education management information system' allow community members to better manage school resources and hold state and local government to account. Civil society organisations are also supported to participate in the budgeting and planning of education at state level. This has improved discussions with state assemblies on education financing issues.

The UK works with the Nigerian Government at state and federal level. At the federal level, our discussions with the Minister of Education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'i are focused on the recently published 'Four Year Education Strategy'. In 2008, the then Minister of Education Obi Ezekwesili launched the Community Accountability and Transparency Initiative (CATI). The initiative was short-lived and not sustained following the Minister's retirement from office in 2009.