The agenda also mandated ‘social audits’ involving beneficiaries and gave non-government organisations and other watchdogs the authority to summon officials and obtain records under the Right to Information Act enacted around the same time. It was introduced in 2008-2009 in Bangladesh as the Employment Generation Programme for Hard-Core Poor (initially called the Employment Generation Programme). It applies to rural areas of the country, with priority given to 81 highly poverty-prone upazillas (sub-districts).