The Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP) in Bangladesh, implemented since 2008, is improving the quality of secondary education and increasing access and equity among poor boys and girls, including those living in remote areas. Empowering girls and women is key to creating inclusive societies and reducing poverty. This is critically important in a fragile setting like Mozambique, where conflict, climate shocks, widespread gender-based violence, and high rates of child marriage and early pregnancies place an extreme burden on women and girls and, thus, on families. The indicator is explicitly referenced in the text of target 4.1: ‘ensure that all girls and boys complete […] primary and secondary education’. A completion rate at or near 100% indicates that all or most children and adolescents have completed a level of education by the time they are 3 to 5 years older than the official age of entry into the last grade of that level of education. A low completion rate indicates low or delayed entry into a given level of education, high drop-out ... Known as "Maïngo," which means development in the Sango language, the national language, the project provides scholarships for girls to advance their education at least until the end of secondary school . After a year of implementation at Bambari Secondary School , the project is beginning to yield positive results.
