In 1998, the government passed the Ten Year Educational Development Plan as a way to make education universal, higher in quality, and more accessible.[1][2] Additionally, this plan was meant to reduce gender and geographic-based inequalities in education.[3] Also known as PRODEC or the Programme Décennal de Dévelopment de l'Education, this program made major developments in popularizing bilingual education and improving the quality of textbooks.[1] The government actually met their GER, or gross enrollment ration, goal by reaching a primary gross enrollment rate of 80% in 2008.[2][1]