Re: [silk] NGO that teaches village schools to hunt down missing funds?

[Chew Lin Kay]

Thank you very much everyone!

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Mahesh Murthy 
wrote:

> I understand HaqDarshak does this
> On 15-Jan-2016 3:11 PM, "Ingrid"  wrote:
>
> > On 15 January 2016 at 13:59, Chew Lin Kay  wrote:
> >
> > > ​Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > Udhay suggested that I tap the Collective Brain for this--has anyone
> > heard
> > > of NGOs in India (one? many?) that trains volunteers to a) read the
> > > relevant ​federal and state level documents on funding for schools, b)
> > > explain said allocations to local schools so that c) schools can go
> back
> > to
> > > the authorities to demand for the money that should have been
> > forthcoming?
> > > I think the programme also involved data collection (e.g. schools
> saying
> > > that they need more flexibility in spending, less specific allocations
> > for
> > > certain less useful areas etc).
> > >
> > > Many thanks!
> > > Chew Lin
> > >
> >
> > India's Right To Education policy requires that schools be monitored by
> > local School Management Committees/Village Education Committees
> (comprising
> > representatives of parents of students, teachers, local authorities among
> > others). Many NGOs that work in this area include capacity building of
> > these committees as part of their programme design.
> >
> > A Delhi NGO that focuses entirely on this aspect is Saajha, featured
> here:
> >
> >
> http://forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30/abhishek-choudhary-and-saransh-vaswani-a-class-act/39603/1
> >
> > Saajha was incubated by Pratham who evaluate school infrastructure and
> > facilities as part of their ASER report:
> >
> http://www.pratham.org/templates/pratham/images/rte_indicators_aser2013.pdf
> >
> > I'm not aware of an organisation that focuses specifically on school
> > budgets.
> >
> > Hope that's useful.
> >
> > Ingrid
> >
>

Re: [silk] NGO that teaches village schools to hunt down missing funds?

[Mahesh Murthy]

I understand HaqDarshak does this
On 15-Jan-2016 3:11 PM, "Ingrid"  wrote:

> On 15 January 2016 at 13:59, Chew Lin Kay  wrote:
>
> > ​Hello everyone,
> >
> > Udhay suggested that I tap the Collective Brain for this--has anyone
> heard
> > of NGOs in India (one? many?) that trains volunteers to a) read the
> > relevant ​federal and state level documents on funding for schools, b)
> > explain said allocations to local schools so that c) schools can go back
> to
> > the authorities to demand for the money that should have been
> forthcoming?
> > I think the programme also involved data collection (e.g. schools saying
> > that they need more flexibility in spending, less specific allocations
> for
> > certain less useful areas etc).
> >
> > Many thanks!
> > Chew Lin
> >
>
> India's Right To Education policy requires that schools be monitored by
> local School Management Committees/Village Education Committees (comprising
> representatives of parents of students, teachers, local authorities among
> others). Many NGOs that work in this area include capacity building of
> these committees as part of their programme design.
>
> A Delhi NGO that focuses entirely on this aspect is Saajha, featured here:
>
> http://forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30/abhishek-choudhary-and-saransh-vaswani-a-class-act/39603/1
>
> Saajha was incubated by Pratham who evaluate school infrastructure and
> facilities as part of their ASER report:
> http://www.pratham.org/templates/pratham/images/rte_indicators_aser2013.pdf
>
> I'm not aware of an organisation that focuses specifically on school
> budgets.
>
> Hope that's useful.
>
> Ingrid
>

Re: [silk] NGO that teaches village schools to hunt down missing funds?

[Abhineeta Raghunath]

As far as I know, there is The Promise Foundation in Bangalore. Last I
checked (more than I year ago), they were providing books to govt. aided
schools with the funds received from large companies. I'm quite sure that
they're involved with the government as well. It's worth finding out.

http://www.thepromisefoundation.org/gi_ci.htm

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Chew Lin Kay  wrote:

> ​Hello everyone,
>
> Udhay suggested that I tap the Collective Brain for this--has anyone heard
> of NGOs in India (one? many?) that trains volunteers to a) read the
> relevant ​federal and state level documents on funding for schools, b)
> explain said allocations to local schools so that c) schools can go back to
> the authorities to demand for the money that should have been forthcoming?
> I think the programme also involved data collection (e.g. schools saying
> that they need more flexibility in spending, less specific allocations for
> certain less useful areas etc).
>
> Many thanks!
> Chew Lin
>

[silk] NGO that teaches village schools to hunt down missing funds?

[Chew Lin Kay]

​Hello everyone,

Udhay suggested that I tap the Collective Brain for this--has anyone heard
of NGOs in India (one? many?) that trains volunteers to a) read the
relevant ​federal and state level documents on funding for schools, b)
explain said allocations to local schools so that c) schools can go back to
the authorities to demand for the money that should have been forthcoming?
I think the programme also involved data collection (e.g. schools saying
that they need more flexibility in spending, less specific allocations for
certain less useful areas etc).

Many thanks!
Chew Lin

Re: [silk] NGO that teaches village schools to hunt down missing funds?

[Ingrid]

On 15 January 2016 at 13:59, Chew Lin Kay  wrote:

> ​Hello everyone,
>
> Udhay suggested that I tap the Collective Brain for this--has anyone heard
> of NGOs in India (one? many?) that trains volunteers to a) read the
> relevant ​federal and state level documents on funding for schools, b)
> explain said allocations to local schools so that c) schools can go back to
> the authorities to demand for the money that should have been forthcoming?
> I think the programme also involved data collection (e.g. schools saying
> that they need more flexibility in spending, less specific allocations for
> certain less useful areas etc).
>
> Many thanks!
> Chew Lin
>

India's Right To Education policy requires that schools be monitored by
local School Management Committees/Village Education Committees (comprising
representatives of parents of students, teachers, local authorities among
others). Many NGOs that work in this area include capacity building of
these committees as part of their programme design.

A Delhi NGO that focuses entirely on this aspect is Saajha, featured here:
http://forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30/abhishek-choudhary-and-saransh-vaswani-a-class-act/39603/1

Saajha was incubated by Pratham who evaluate school infrastructure and
facilities as part of their ASER report:
http://www.pratham.org/templates/pratham/images/rte_indicators_aser2013.pdf

I'm not aware of an organisation that focuses specifically on school
budgets.

Hope that's useful.

Ingrid