1. Pratham & Read India PRATHAM

2. Prathams Accolades 3. Major Supporters 4.

Largest education NGO in India

Founded in 1994 with urban focus

Rural Programs started in 2002

Working in 21 out of 28 states; 258 out of ~600 districts

Teaching basic literacy and numeracy skills for primary school children (illiterate parents)

2.2 million children

62,000 unpaid volunteers

About Pratham & Read India PRATHAM 5.

Government system is failing India

Government focused on input (access to schools), not outcomes (learning levels)

Achieved near universal enrollment (96.5%)

Improved school infrastructure

Right to Education Act 2009 focuses on access to schools

Is the education system equipping people with the right skills? PRATHAM 6. ASER A nationwide survey on learning levels

Only nationwide data on learning levels

Within 100 days, every rural district reached 15,000 villages & 700,000 children

25,000 volunteers donate 4 days of their time to achieve this mammoth task

PRATHAM 7.

ASER 2010 : % of children in different grades who can read this text

• Grade 3:19.5%

• Grade 4:37.9%

• Grade 5:53.7%

ASER 2010 : % of children who can do this kind of division

• Grade 4:21.8%

• Grade 5:35.9%

PRATHAM Grade 2 Level Text Division 8. PRATHAM 9.

Government thinks pouring more money will solve the problem

Community thinks that children are going to school so they must be learning

% of private schools up from 18.8% (2006) to 24.3% (2010)

Equating Schooling with Learning PRATHAM 10.

Use data tomobilize Government

Use simple tools tomobilize communities

Everychild in school and learning well

Low cost, infrastructure light

Make learning fun

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Our Approach Top Down and Bottom Up PRATHAM 11. PRATHAM 12. PRATHAM 13. PRATHAM 14. PRATHAM 15. PRATHAM 16. Government Partnerships The Punjab Example PRATHAM 17.

Not enough to focus on inputs (# of schools, books, meals)

Constant innovation on scale is needed

For models to be scalable, they must be simple and low cost

Ordinary people participate on large scale if model is simple to execute

Governments can be influenced with good data

Whole ecosystem must change, government and community

Lessons PRATHAM 18. Donations Received 2010-2011 19. Program Expenditure 2010-2011 20. Meet Deepa Deepa Thappa, Primary School Chakarpur Deepa is currently in grade two.Her sister, who is six years old, attends school along with her.In her spare time, Deepa enjoys watching her favorite show Tom and Jerry.Her favorite subjects include Hindi, English and math.She dreams to become a teacher one day, so that she can help young children in her village, read and write.PRATHAM 21. Meet Rajesh Rajesh Singh, Primary School Nathupur Rajesh Singh is in grade 5 and cycles to school every day, which takes him about one hour. Since his mother doesnt keep very well, he attends school during the day and helps his brother Arjun with his machine repair shop in the evenings. The family survives on whatever comes from the repair shop. Rajesh struggles to get up early in the morning and study before he leaves for school.His ambition is to become an engineer one day.PRATHAM 22. You Can Create an Impact

$25,000will transform 100 villages training200 teachersin digital literacy to teach2000 childrenreading, writing and mathfor an entire year.

$15,000will focus on2000 childrenfor an entire yearin 100 villages, getting them into school if they are not, and supporting children falling behind.

$5,000will keep150 childrenin schoolfor an entire yearthrough an urban learning center, increasing retention, learning and the quality of instruction.

$1,000will fund thesurvey of 1400 children , to assess their current reading and writing level for one year.

PRATHAM 23. Questions?Email kkumar@prathamusa.org www.pratham.org www.asercentre.org PRATHAM