The UK aid-funded Southwest Basic Education Project (SBEP) operated during 2006 – 2010 in 27 of the poorest and most remote counties in Southwestern China. The project was designed to improve the Provincial and County governments’ own systems of education support and development and included:
- stipends for poor students (especially girls and minorities)
- introduction of School Development Planning (SDP)
- teacher training on effective support, improved quality and greater relevance of schooling for disadvantaged children
- involvement of those children in their own learning
- head teacher training
- equity training focusing on the most disadvantaged children.