Impact assessment, community involvement and the Pratham India Project
22 October 2007
Centre for Global Development
Started in the slums of Mumbai in 1994, Pratham was created to augment the role of the government and the citizens in implementing and furthering universal primary education. The organization is based on a triangular partnership between government, the corporate sector and the citizens, and since inception, has reached out to over a million children. In 2000, Pratham received the Global Development Network Award sponsored by the World Bank and the Government of Japan as one the top three "most innovative development projects."
Rukmini Banerji, Director of the Research and Evaluation Unit for Pratham, India focused on implementation and key results from the unique participative impact/evaluation assessment tools used by Pratham, including the large and uniquely participatory household survey on elementary education, and the "People's Audit of Health, Education and Livelihoods."
PAHELI stands for People’s Audit of Health, Education and Livelihoods. It is a rapid assessment of the prevailing status of human development in a district and covers four major sectors: life and livelihoods, water and sanitation, mother and child health, and education and literacy. The design and execution of PAHELI was done by Pratham and PAHELI district partners. It was supported by UNDP with participation from UNICEF.
Documentation on PAHELI, including its participatory human development report cards, can be acessed on the PRATHAM website: http://www.pratham.org/paheli/paheli.php
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