**13. Acknowledgment**

The author would like to thank UKAID for funding the EIA programme and the UCEP Bangladesh authority for allowing him to carry out the research in their schools. He is also indebted to the colleagues from the EIA Base Office in Dhaka, Bangladesh who supported him enormously during the fieldwork of the research on pre-pilot intervention of the project. He also thanks the School Administrators and teachers of the UCEP schools who took part in research activities and helped him to understand their professional and school contexts.
