[Research] Education Policy Tracker - first cut

[Sajitha Bashir]

Dear Archana and colleagues

I am attaching the first cut of the policy tracker in the attached excel
file.  I hope we can discuss this on Thursday.
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.

Brief explanatory notes
- 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
- the second sheet suggests how the data could be collected
- 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)

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.

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.

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).

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.

Also working on the high frequency survey questions
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