EIA is funded by the UK Government and is working closely with the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME) and the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of Bangladesh.

A consortium of partners - Cambridge Education (Lead), BBC Media Action, The Open University, UK and two national NGOs – Underprivileged Children's Educational Programme (UCEP) and Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) are working together to implement the Programme and achieve its goal collectively.