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The success of SIAC programmes was subsequently taken to 147 tribal schools in the Khunti district of Jharkhand in 2015. With only three iterations of the School Card being used in the schools, the illiterate parents are already more confident in demanding quality education for their children and schools have also started taking measures towards improvement.
Consultancy to support School Management Committee (SMC) Training in Bihar
The goal of this consultancy is to provide practical guidance and evidence of impact to help Government of Bihar to make greater use of community mobilization as a means for improving teacher effectiveness and student outcomes from their existing primary education system. Some of the key outcomes of this exercise are given below:
• A training module and materials for the SMCs customised to their specific contexts and a delivery model that is contextualised to the specific challenges of education in Bihar
• Constituted a pool of trained master trainers who will be responsible for training the trainers who will then empower the SMCs
• A mobile phone application consisting of a school score card is designed to have means of measuring school quality indicators that are agreed between Government of Bihar and CFBT HCL Grant 2019-20 by HCL Foundation
We were shortlisted for the final round comprising of 10 high impact
NGOs in Education theme in the year 2019-20 for our “Supporting Improved Accountability to Community (SIAC)” project.
School Improvement through Accountability to Communit
The Supporting Improved Accountability to Community (SIAC) projects, initiated by CFBT, focus on raising awareness among parents and community members about their children's right to
education. The primary goal of these projects is to foster local-level accountability by empowering women's self-help groups (SHGs) through the use of straightforward school quality monitoring tools.
The operational framework of the project is organized as follows
Raising awareness of educational
rights through rallies and street plays
Designing school scorecard
Capacity building of mothers in SMCs
Monitoring of schools by mothers
using the school scorecard
Sending SMS/updating the mobile
app with actual data from the school
Performance monitoring through SMS data publication/online login through mobile app
TESTIMONIALS
“We are able to know what is happening in schools...otherwise we
were so scared to enter in the schools because we are uneducated
and we didn’t know what to ask the teachers or how to approach the
headmaster.”
Korrapadu parents, 2012
SMCs are happening regularly once in a month and the teachers
are promising the community to see the change in a month or two
regarding the progress in academics and in other issues.
AMO
The scorecard helps the community to involve the teachers in
school activities because psychology of the teacher is that if
someone questions, they work hard to prove themselves. That’s what
happening in project Mandals
Reddy, Headmaster
The SHGs are mature and empowered. The women were articulate
and confident, they could identify problems in the schools, cite
instances, give reasons for the problems and suggest solutions. [...]
the dialogue was on an
equal footing.”
FeatDr Betts, Midterm Report, 2010
Under the aegis of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) and in partnership with Mandal MahilaSamakhyas (MMS), CFBT successfully initiated and executed the community accountability programme “Vidya Jyothi” in Warangal District. The major element of the project was to build the capacity of Self-Help Group (SHG) women in monitoring schools through participation in AcademicMonitoring Committees (AMCs). The programme was successful in:
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Setting up 38 Balabadi centres in Gudur and Kothagudamandals with the assistance of the community in surveying and establishing the potential for setting up up these centres in rural hamlets.
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Recruiting facilitators from women who get married into the local community and subsequent capacity building.
Empowering the respective SHGs that set up the centres to conduct thorough reviews of the teacher performance and learning outcomes every month prior to salary disbursement.Providing assistance for managing the centres. Improving the quality of education in government schools through leadership training, teacher orientation, workshops for students and parents. Enabling access to Early Childhood centres to ensure access and development of children between 3-5 years of age
Vidya Jyothi (2008-11):
Also known as Self Help Group Partnership in Education Project (SHGPEP), this project was funded by the Department for International Development (DfID), UK under the Civil Society Challenge Fund and
executed successfully in the rural region of Anantapur district. Over the years, the programme spread across 500 schools in 330 villages by involving 5,500 SHGs and benefitting 50,000 children
approximately. The programme was successful in:
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Capacity building of illiterate and semiliterate women to assess the quality of basic education provision in state schools using school scorecards.
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Empowering the most marginalised community members to hold their local schools to account through face-to-face visits to collect the scorecard data and through the publication of results at the local School Management Committee meetings and at local women’s Self-Help Group meetings.
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Building a cadre of local parents who became fully engaged in community-based discussions about education quality for the first time.
The project was successfully piloted in 2009 in 87 schools in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh where it was received enthusiastically both by the community and by the Education Department of the State who then agreed to fund the expansion of this programme to 425 schools in 2011.
Vidya Chaitanyam (2009-12):
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