Government's Secondary Education Develop-ment Program (SEDP) for implementing the next five-year projects from the financial year (FY) 2018-19 to FY 2022-23, will be costing US dollar 17.2 billion.The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) will place the proposals for approving and implementing the SEDP on Sunday to the Ministry of Education, DSHE sources said.

SEDP will be financed primarily from the government sources, with support from development partners including the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the sources said adding that the planned contribution from the WB would be American dollar 500 million plus American dollar 10 million GFF and from ADB American dollar 225 million. ADB and WB will subsets of SEDP with the agreed and selected program budget heads, the sources said adding that UNICEF, UNESCO and British Council will provide technical assistance in selected areas, within the program framework. But the cost of the technical assistance will not be part of the program cost.

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