[Research] Education Policy Tracker - first cut

[Kishore Darak]

Thanks Gutu for the info and intro to the group. As I mentioned, I have a meeting today late evening but will try to join for some time.

Regards.
Kishore

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Dear Kishore
Welcome to the Working Group on Research and the meeting today from 6 - 730 pm.
Sharing the notes taken online in the last 2 meetings to get you a feel of what we have discussed  so far.

(Rishi will be unable to attend today's meeting and says he will share his compendium notes by the weekend)

regards
Guru
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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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