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Baela raza jamil huma zia

Large Scale Household Based, Citizen Led Assessments A Forum for Inclusion, Social Capital and Social Accountability. Baela raza jamil huma zia. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 10 th to 15 th March 2014.

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  1. Large Scale Household Based, Citizen Led AssessmentsA Forum for Inclusion, Social Capital and Social Accountability Baela raza jamil humazia Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 10th to 15th March 2014 Participation at CIES Supported by: Open Society Foundation (OSF)

  2. Introduction Challenges of Learning & Access greatest in Sub Saharan Africa & some E9 countries. E9 countries account for over half of the world's population and 70% of the world's illiterate adults ~ India, Pakistan, Mexico, Nigeria, China, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia & Bangladesh. Globally, 250 million or quarter of a billion lack basic reading and writing skills. The education Millennium Development Goal (in spite of progress) will not be met.

  3. Some more stats…

  4. Education is an important engine for economic, societal and personal growth. • Governments have adhoc arrangements for primary & middle level assessments  consistency & transparency is required. • Governments /providers/donors input driven not focused on whether children are ‘learning’ • CSOs are coming together to strengthen learning & teaching based on evidence that is country wide & accessible to ALL. • Lively & growing education research community to interrogate learning outcomes & pedagogies that work. The Need for Large Scale Citizen Led Assessments

  5. Citizens Response To Learning Challenges A South-South Initiative Conceptualized as a Citizens’ Social Movement Leading from the Front with Bold & Distributed Leadership Model

  6. Call for citizens to come together! Volunteers need to have at least 12 years of education Transforming ordinary into extra-ordinary people BUILDING CAPABILITIES FOR ACTION EACH COUNTRY HAS ITS OWN MODEL

  7. The JUBA family spreading globally South Asia • India • Pakistan Mexico Mali Senegal Nigeria East Africa • Kenya • Uganda • Tanzania Nigeria is exploring options to join the JUBA family in 2014

  8. International Large Scale Assessments in Education School Based Assessments lead to exclusion – DO NOT account for absent students, never enrolled & dropped out children!!!

  9. The NEED for Household Based AssessmentsA Forum for Inclusion • Household based learning assessment is inclusive - it ensures ALL children are included. • ASER Pakistan 2013  in some provinces, child absenteeism may be as high as 35% (Sindh, Pakistan) • In-school assessment is great when all children are in schools; in many countries this is not the case.

  10. Mobilizing Citizens: Scale & Size Designed for 30-60 volunteers per district – Majority young people –engaged in a BIG cause!

  11. The Rigor & Stages of Mobilization Civil Society and Social Capital Formation IMPLEMENTATION CYCLE

  12. Seeking Stakeholders Attention:Building Social Capital

  13. What is Social Capital? Robert Putnam emphasized the relation between democracy and civil society. “…social capital refers to connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them. In that sense social capital is closely related to what some have called “civic virtue” The importance of a strong and active civil society to the consolidation of democracy’. (Putnam 2000: 19)

  14. What is Social Accountability United Nations Development Program (2010) defines social accountability as: “A form of accountability which emerges from actions by citizens and civil society organization (CSOs) aimed at holding the state to account, as well as efforts by government and other actors (media, private sector, donors) to support these actions.”

  15. Civil Society Takes Action • Citizens mobilized through a unique and simple methodology to • Gather large scale evidence – from households, children and schools in the neighborhoods • Analyze • Publicize & • Take Action Citizens build social capital through informed voice!

  16. CSOs Promoting Social AccountabilityThrough Rigorous Annual Actions Participation of citizens and civil society crucial for improving sustained access to quality education. Social accountability of the JUBA kind operationalizesand strengthen relationships between citizens (the users of education services), policy-makers and service providers. Social accountability backed by evidence on learning leads to improved information for action about citizens’ rights , responsibility. transparency, governance JUBA works for creating a public good and public service in the public domain to provide information for actions on Right to Education (RTE)

  17. JUBA Family Creating Social Capital for Social Accountability Leading to Social Accountability Creating Social Capital

  18. “Creation of social capital begins with a shared goal of improving the learning levels of children and holding all the stakeholders of education accountable.” • Collecting evidence of learning levels of children • Communicating findings • Mobilizing resources for improved learning • Community mobilization for social accountability

  19. Learning for All in the Post-2015 Development Agenda Education is Learning For capabilities and entitlements Learning as a Core Education Goal Twin crises of learning & OOSC has enormous costs. Challenge to draw attention to education/learning as capabilities and entitlements for health, economic growth, happiness, safer, stable societies- and well being in the 21st century.

  20. EvidenceBased Citizen Led Assessments for Action, Research & PolicyInfluence Large scale annual citizen led nationwide citizens’ audit of learning generate an enormous energy and synergy. As an evaluation of citizens, parents & government performance. Bring educational issues to the forefront by involving all stakeholders from local to global. Provide large scale data sets for research and policy communities. Influence actions – village - district – state national and global agendas.

  21. JUBA : a passport to jobs! Challenges & Next Steps Most projects in reading/learning in their official JDs ask for “ASER experience” ! Rigor of processes, tools and reporting. Formidable scale - from a citizens’ call for action to formal procurement of partnerships Documentation to capture the ‘unintended impact’ the value addition beyond the plans. Second generation tools  focus from lower primary to upper and post primary We are in this TOGETHER too!!

  22. THANK YOU…!

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