Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India

There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of village education committees (VECs),...

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Main Authors:	Banerjee, Abhijit, Banerji, Rukmini, Duflo, Esther, Glennerster, Rachel, Khemani, Stuti
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ARITHMETIC AVERAGE CLASS SIZE AVERAGE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO BASIC ARITHMETIC BASIC COMPETENCIES BASIC EDUCATION BASIC LEARNING BASIC LITERACY BASIC SERVICE BASIC SERVICES BASIC SKILLS BLACKBOARDS CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS EARLY LESSONS EDUCATION EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SERVICES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION FUTURE RESEARCH GIRLS GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLITERATE CHILDREN IMPROVING PRIMARY EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS KNOWLEDGE GAP LEARNING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT LEARNING LEVELS LEARNING MATERIALS LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LOW LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OUTCOMES OF EDUCATION PAPERS PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM PRIMARY EDUCATION SECTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC AGENCIES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY EDUCATION READING READING LEVEL REGULAR ATTENDANCE REPORT CARDS RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL CHILDREN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL HEAD SCHOOL HEADMASTER SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS SCHOOL MAINTENANCE SCHOOL MEALS SCHOOL TEACHERS STUDENT POPULATION STUDENTS PER TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT VILLAGE VILLAGE COMMUNITY VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VILLAGE MEETINGS
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topic	ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ARITHMETIC AVERAGE CLASS SIZE AVERAGE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO BASIC ARITHMETIC BASIC COMPETENCIES BASIC EDUCATION BASIC LEARNING BASIC LITERACY BASIC SERVICE BASIC SERVICES BASIC SKILLS BLACKBOARDS CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS EARLY LESSONS EDUCATION EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SERVICES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION FUTURE RESEARCH GIRLS GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLITERATE CHILDREN IMPROVING PRIMARY EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS KNOWLEDGE GAP LEARNING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT LEARNING LEVELS LEARNING MATERIALS LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LOW LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OUTCOMES OF EDUCATION PAPERS PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM PRIMARY EDUCATION SECTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC AGENCIES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY EDUCATION READING READING LEVEL REGULAR ATTENDANCE REPORT CARDS RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL CHILDREN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL HEAD SCHOOL HEADMASTER SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS SCHOOL MAINTENANCE SCHOOL MEALS SCHOOL TEACHERS STUDENT POPULATION STUDENTS PER TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT VILLAGE VILLAGE COMMUNITY VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VILLAGE MEETINGS
spellingShingle	ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ARITHMETIC AVERAGE CLASS SIZE AVERAGE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO BASIC ARITHMETIC BASIC COMPETENCIES BASIC EDUCATION BASIC LEARNING BASIC LITERACY BASIC SERVICE BASIC SERVICES BASIC SKILLS BLACKBOARDS CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS EARLY LESSONS EDUCATION EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SERVICES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION FUTURE RESEARCH GIRLS GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLITERATE CHILDREN IMPROVING PRIMARY EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS KNOWLEDGE GAP LEARNING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT LEARNING LEVELS LEARNING MATERIALS LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LOW LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OUTCOMES OF EDUCATION PAPERS PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM PRIMARY EDUCATION SECTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC AGENCIES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY EDUCATION READING READING LEVEL REGULAR ATTENDANCE REPORT CARDS RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL CHILDREN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL HEAD SCHOOL HEADMASTER SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS SCHOOL MAINTENANCE SCHOOL MEALS SCHOOL TEACHERS STUDENT POPULATION STUDENTS PER TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT VILLAGE VILLAGE COMMUNITY VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VILLAGE MEETINGS Banerjee, Abhijit Banerji, Rukmini Duflo, Esther Glennerster, Rachel Khemani, Stuti Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3967
description	There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of village education committees (VECs), consisting of village government leaders, parents, and teachers. The authors report findings from a survey in the state of Uttar Pradesh, of public schools, households, and VEC members, on the status of education services and the extent of community participation in the public delivery of education services. They find that parents do not know that a VEC exists, sometimes even when they are supposed to be members of it; VEC members are unaware of even key roles they are empowered to play in education services; and public participation in improving education is negligible, and correspondingly, people's ranking of education on a list of village priorities is low. Large numbers of children in the villages have not acquired basic competency in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Yet parents, teachers, and VEC members seem not to be fully aware of the scale of the problem, and seem not to have given much thought to the role of public agencies in improving outcomes. Learning failures coexist with public apathy to improving it through public action. Can local participation be sparked through grassroots campaigns that inform communities about the VEC and its role in local service delivery? Can such local participation actually affect learning outcomes, and can any impact be sustained? The authors describe information and advocacy campaigns that have been experimentally implemented to address some of the problems with local participation, and future research plans to evaluate their impact.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Banerjee, Abhijit Banerji, Rukmini Duflo, Esther Glennerster, Rachel Khemani, Stuti
author_facet	Banerjee, Abhijit Banerji, Rukmini Duflo, Esther Glennerster, Rachel Khemani, Stuti
author_sort	Banerjee, Abhijit
title	Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
title_short	Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
title_full	Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
title_fullStr	Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
title_full_unstemmed	Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
title_sort	can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes? a study of primary education in uttar pradesh, india
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/07/6918316/can-information-campaigns-spark-local-participation-improve-outcomes-study-primary-education-uttar-pradesh-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8378
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spelling	okr-10986-83782021-04-23T14:02:41Z Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India Banerjee, Abhijit Banerji, Rukmini Duflo, Esther Glennerster, Rachel Khemani, Stuti ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ARITHMETIC AVERAGE CLASS SIZE AVERAGE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO BASIC ARITHMETIC BASIC COMPETENCIES BASIC EDUCATION BASIC LEARNING BASIC LITERACY BASIC SERVICE BASIC SERVICES BASIC SKILLS BLACKBOARDS CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS EARLY LESSONS EDUCATION EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SERVICES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION FUTURE RESEARCH GIRLS GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLITERATE CHILDREN IMPROVING PRIMARY EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS KNOWLEDGE GAP LEARNING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT LEARNING LEVELS LEARNING MATERIALS LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LOW LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OUTCOMES OF EDUCATION PAPERS PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM PRIMARY EDUCATION SECTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC AGENCIES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY EDUCATION READING READING LEVEL REGULAR ATTENDANCE REPORT CARDS RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL CHILDREN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL HEAD SCHOOL HEADMASTER SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS SCHOOL MAINTENANCE SCHOOL MEALS SCHOOL TEACHERS STUDENT POPULATION STUDENTS PER TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT VILLAGE VILLAGE COMMUNITY VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VILLAGE MEETINGS There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of village education committees (VECs), consisting of village government leaders, parents, and teachers. The authors report findings from a survey in the state of Uttar Pradesh, of public schools, households, and VEC members, on the status of education services and the extent of community participation in the public delivery of education services. They find that parents do not know that a VEC exists, sometimes even when they are supposed to be members of it; VEC members are unaware of even key roles they are empowered to play in education services; and public participation in improving education is negligible, and correspondingly, people's ranking of education on a list of village priorities is low. Large numbers of children in the villages have not acquired basic competency in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Yet parents, teachers, and VEC members seem not to be fully aware of the scale of the problem, and seem not to have given much thought to the role of public agencies in improving outcomes. Learning failures coexist with public apathy to improving it through public action. Can local participation be sparked through grassroots campaigns that inform communities about the VEC and its role in local service delivery? Can such local participation actually affect learning outcomes, and can any impact be sustained? The authors describe information and advocacy campaigns that have been experimentally implemented to address some of the problems with local participation, and future research plans to evaluate their impact. 2012-06-18T22:01:36Z 2012-06-18T22:01:36Z 2006-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/07/6918316/can-information-campaigns-spark-local-participation-improve-outcomes-study-primary-education-uttar-pradesh-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8378 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3967 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India

Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India

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