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The NGO Service Delivery Program
 Led by Pathfinder International in collaboration with a team of seven partner organizations, the NGO Service Delivery Program was USAID's largest health program in Bangladesh during its implementation. The project focused on the delivery of essential public health services, training, quality assurance, and NGO institutional development. NSDP partnered with more than 30 local NGOs whose 318 Smiling Sun clinics still reach about 20 million people in both disadvantaged rural areas and urban slums. Despite the project's end, these clinics continue to offer a range of essential health care services, including family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, including childhood immunizations, diagnosis and treatment for communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, and limited curative care. During the project, the NGOs served the poorest and most vulnerable families for free, and increased their total number of customers and revenues from user fees of able-to-pay customers through an innovative performance-based reimbursement scheme, sale of health benefit cards, and expansion of income-generating services.
Other Projects in Bangladesh
Grameenphone Motherhood and Infant Care Project: In 2007, Pathfinder began work focused on reducing maternal and infant deaths and enhancing accessibility to and awareness of services for the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh.
Raising the age of Marriage for Young Girls in Bangladesh: From 2003 to 2006, Pathfinder administered a project designed to raise the age of marriage for girls, primarily through an emphasis on education.
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