Community Engagement Mechanisms : Field Experiment in Pakistan

The overall objective was to elicit and sustain meaningful participation by the community in the management of schools. This could only be possible if the interface was integrated with local institutions. For this reason, School Management Committees in approximately half of the sample villages were strengthened through elections and capacity-building support to enable Committee members to effectively respond to community-identified needs. The primary purpose of this report is to record the rationale and motivations behind the decisions taken by the project team during the project’s design and implementation, and to catalyze a candid discussion about the challenges faced during implementation. The report is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the design phase of the project. There are two chapters in this section. The first lays out the framework and context for project design; the second discusses the design and testing of instruments, the portal, manuals and training of field facilitators. Section Two focuses on the implementation phase of the project. The first chapter in this section reviews village mobilization efforts and the convening of village-level meetings. The second chapter documents the post-meeting engagement process through the Community Dialogue Platform, while the third chapter reviews capacity-building support for newly constituted School Management Committees. The third and the final section reports the key findings from collation, synthesis and analysis of the process data collected for all interventions in this project. The first chapter in this section reports statistics on measures of participation and other indicators to measure treatment fidelity, strategies that measure accuracy and consistency of interventions. The second chapter analyzes text messaging traffic generated on the portal for the duration of the campaign, while the final chapter gives detailed expenditures analysis of School Improvement Plans developed by the School Management Committees.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Asim, Salman, Abbas, Ali, Adil, Mariam
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015-09-01
Subjects:	SKILLS, SANITATION, COMMUNITIES, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, ANNUAL GRANTS, TEACHING TECHNIQUES, VILLAGE LEADERS, BASIC EDUCATION, SCHOOL TEACHERS, TEACHERS, EDUCATION MANAGEMENT, ILLITERACY, NUMBER OF SCHOOLS, SCHOOLING, DISTRICT EDUCATION, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES, ATTENDANCE RATES, EDUCATION POLICY, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, HEAD TEACHER, EDUCATION OUTCOMES, HIGHER EDUCATION, PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, POOR PEOPLE, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION, SCHOOL CENSUS, PROJECT, PROJECTS, ADULTS, LOCAL SCHOOLS, QUALITY TEACHING, PARENTAL SATISFACTION, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, LITERACY, TEXTBOOKS, KNOWLEDGE, MIDDLE SCHOOL, LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, PARTICIPATORY TRAINING, SCHOOLCHILDREN, EDUCATION OFFICIALS, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, EDUCATORS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, INTERVENTION, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, TARGET SCHOOLS, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, LEARNING, VILLAGE MEETINGS, EDUCATION SYSTEM, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, LESSON PLANS, SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT, PRIMARY SCHOOL, FEMALE TEACHERS, TEACHING, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, QUALITY TEACHERS, SCHOOL LEVEL, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, DESIGN, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, READING, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, ACCESS TO SCHOOLS, SCHOOL PARTICIPATION, ACCESS TO DATA, DROPOUT RATES, SCHOOL FACILITIES, SCHOOLS, HEAD TEACHERS, PARTICIPATION, LEARNING OUTCOMES, EDUCATION SERVICES, MALE TEACHERS, ENROLLMENT RATE, QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION, HOUSEHOLD, EDUCATIONAL QUALITY, HIGH DROPOUT, SCHOOL CHILDREN, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, TEACHER, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, FEMALE STUDENTS, QUALITY EDUCATION, FUNCTIONAL SCHOOLS, EDUCATION, VILLAGE LEVEL, SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION, SCHOOL VISIT, SCHOOL MAINTENANCE, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, PRIMARY LEVEL, INTERVENTIONS, NET ENROLLMENT, SCHOOL EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, FEES, NET ENROLLMENT RATE, READERS, FREE TEXTBOOKS, TEACHER ABSENTEEISM, SCHOOL PROGRAM, CLASSROOM, CLASSROOMS, SCHOOL, ATTENDANCE RATE, NUMBER OF TEACHERS, SERVICE, DISTRICTS, LITERATE COMMUNITY, SCHOOL COMMITTEES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25105908/community-engagement-mechanisms-field-experiment-pakistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22939
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!