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Dear all<br>
<br>
Marzia has worked on the compendiums shared so far by Archana,
Sajitha and Jyotsna and <br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>Compiled all 'as is' in a single sheet so we can see all at
once. Using the 'filter' function, we can pick up all cases
which have info on a particular aspect. see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1coEeu0lZRBsMEg366uIVxEYPS7Bc2ey_nO2uCIQwSyE/edit#gid=61609172">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1coEeu0lZRBsMEg366uIVxEYPS7Bc2ey_nO2uCIQwSyE/edit#gid=61609172</a></li>
<li>Began a document which compiles across the researches, info on
specific attributes. This is WIP and to be discussed as a
possible way of documenting. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDW_ju8adSnmhUfsX1rPNpjW_JQ-KIr8ZPDEvNlIje4/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDW_ju8adSnmhUfsX1rPNpjW_JQ-KIr8ZPDEvNlIje4/edit</a><br>
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Both docs are in the <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tinyurl.com/eeindia21">https://tinyurl.com/eeindia21</a> drive in the
Research/compendium folder. <br>
<br>
We can discuss in the meeting today. (Marzia has a class till
around 7 and may join towards the end)<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Guru<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/08/21 4:41 pm, Rishikesh . wrote:<br>
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Thanks for intimating the group on my absence Guru. Welcome
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My apologies. Will not be able to attend today either. I’m
also delayed in putting together the summaries of the
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<div>Dear Kishore<br>
Welcome to the Working Group on Research and the meeting today
from 6 - 730 pm.<br>
Sharing the notes taken online in the last 2 meetings to get you
a feel of what we have discussed so far.<br>
<br>
(Rishi will be unable to attend today's meeting and says he will
share his compendium notes by the weekend)<br>
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regards<br>
Guru<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Archana and colleagues
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<div>I am attaching the first cut of the policy tracker in
the attached excel file. I hope we can discuss this on
Thursday.</div>
<div>In developing this, I looked at about 14 other policy
trackers on different issues, ranging from
sophisticated ones to simple ones (had mentioned some of
these in the earlier PPT). It is best to go with
something simple, based on ordinal indicators, but
which can be meaningful if we have a structured data
collection, visualization and communication approach.</div>
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<div>Brief explanatory notes</div>
<div>- the first sheet has the suggested indicators , 7 in
education, 5 in health and 3 in social assistance, and
the coding ( the latter is to be reviewed). We don't
need to do all of them</div>
<div>- the second sheet suggests how the data could be
collected</div>
<div>- the third sheet indicates the steps that have to be
taken, from deciding on the indicators to data
collection, visualization and communication (the last
being very important)</div>
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<div>My suggestion is to NOT create a composite index, at
this time, which is difficult for people to understand.
For the moment, each indicator can be
presented/visualized separately.</div>
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<div>Data collection - looking at other policy trackers,
most actually collect information from media reports and
govt websites. So, as we (ie ITforChange) are already
scanning the media, this should be doable. It just has
to be done systematically and ideally by the same
people, so that the coding is consistent. Also, we
could start with about 10 states. </div>
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<div>I shared this Excel file with Guru, who has entered
some comments in the last column of the first sheet,
which I left in. We can discuss these and other
comments. My own view is that even if no state is
prioritizing vaccinations for teachers or doing COVID
testing for teachers today, we should document that, and
contrast with other countries which are doing this (and
according to some international trackers, Govt of India
claims to prioritize teachers for vaccination). </div>
<div> </div>
<div>This kind of policy tracker would need to be
supplemented with more qualitative assessments of how
different states are actually implementing the "return
to school", benchmarking against the guidelines that are
being developed by the education support group. </div>
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<div>Also working on the high frequency survey questions<br>
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