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The Annual Status of Education Report 2017 ‘Beyond Basics’, popularly known as ASER focused on the preparedness of youth in the age group of 14-18, with respect to their ability to lead productive lives as adults. About 1 in every 10 Indians is between the ages of 14 and 18, which amounts to about 125 million individuals. Many have completed

Previous Articles related to ILP’s Monitoring and Evaluation System: (1) An introduction; (2) Attendance Monitoring

Sameera from Kawa village, Bihar studied Biological Science in her grade 8 middle school class this year. How much did her learning levels improve?

Answering this question requires us to delve deeper on several fronts:

1. Coupling seamlessly
   

Supporting children and providing for communities: ILP’s COVID 19 response

As you all are aware of, our World is going through a once in a generation crisis; namely the COVID 19 pandemic. For a lot of us the past few months have been a significant departure from the lives we once lived. For the already weak and downtrodden members of our society, the impact has

“This Chart gives me HOPE! I always feel I am not capable of doing much, but this session gives me confidence. I never knew there are so many opportunities and courses available”. Somesh[1] resonates the sentiments of the 12 boys of Class X, on the session on Career Guidance by their Counsellor, who was trained by India Literacy Project (ILP). These young boys live

In a previous article, we shared a high level introduction to ILP’s Metrics & Evaluation system that we use to assess the effectiveness of our work. We use two tools to collect most of our data:

1. Atlan COLLECT Mobile App: We use this when it is practical to collect and digitize data directly in the field. An example of this is to track Students’ attendance

We at ILP had such an action-packed and satisfying 2019, that we didn’t even realize that a  brand new decade had rolled in! We are most definitely looking forward to marching through the coming decade with our usual zeal and are chuffed to share with you the achievements of our previous year. As a catalyst for a 100% literate and educated India, ILP across

By Sumita Jayaraman & AL Rangarajan

ILP has always focused on a multi-pronged approach to educating children that covers schooling (both enrollment and retention), learning (quality of education) and earning (career guidance and counseling).  And additional criterion which we use to identify projects and areas of work is the need-based approach to bring education to the most marginalized populations. As we look back at 2019,