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 Committe...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25105908/community-engagement-mechanisms-field-experiment-pakistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22939 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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