dfid sarva shiksha abhiyan private sector study
Funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
Grant Value: GBP 25,000
Partners: Claire Noronha, CORD and Shailaja Fennell, University of Cambridge
Grant Value: GBP 25,000
Partners: Claire Noronha, CORD and Shailaja Fennell, University of Cambridge
policy & research contextSarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the Government of India's flagship programme for universal elementary education, has come to the end of its first decade. Further, with the passing of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act), the SSA is now conceptualised as the vehicle for implementing the Act. This is a fundamental shift, as the RTE Act is a legal framework, and its provisions for free and compulsory elementary education are legally enforceable matters of law. This heralds important changes in the ways that education must be conceptualised and delivered, and has several implications for the private sector, and for the interplay between public and private actors.
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research aimsThis research study was commissioned by DFID in India to provide a broad overview of key issues associated with how the role of the private sector in education has evolved over the last ten years of SSA. The terms of reference set the focus of this study on broadly covering public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the emergence of low-fee private schooling. Additionally, as the end of the first SSA decade dovetails with the implementation of the RTE Act, we provide some indications on potential
implications of the RTE Act on the private sector in relation to the new SSA
phase.
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research workThe study conducted interviews with members of academia, civil society, and donors; primary analysis of secondary data on education statistics; comprehensive literature review of private schooling in India; documentary analysis of the Eleventh and Twelfth Five-Year Plan and associated background documents; documentary analysis of PPP initiatives across a number of non-government organisations; and analysis of relevant SSA and RTE Act frameworks and documents.
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research outputsSrivastava, P., Noronha, C., & Fennell, S., Private sector study: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Report submitted to DFID (India), 2013, pp. 66. Freely download full text here.
Education for all post-2015: looking back and going forward — the case of India’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme. Research panel, 58th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto, 10-15 March 2014. Srivastava, P., & Noronha, C., Private sector growth in a decade of universal elementary education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Research panel paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto, 10-15 March 2014. Fennell, S., Evaluating Education Outcomes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: Re-examining the relationship between state-level education data and education interventions in state and private sectors. Research panel paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto, 10-15 March 2014. Srivastava, P., Noronha, C., & Fennell, S., Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan private sector research study. DFID-India Writers’ Workshop, New Delhi, 10 October 2012. |