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ALIF AILAAN UPDATE May 2015 ALIF AILAAN UPDATE May 2015 May at Alif Ailaan • Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015 – Highlighting disparities between districts and provinces • Budget Campaign: pushing for an increase in the education budget to 4% of the GDP • Budget advocacy with politicians and activists • Training workshops with education activists • Supporting the role of data in education reform • Rallying Local Body election candidates for education • Budget and Enrolment Advocacy on the ground • Social media report Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015 Launch of our third annual District Education Rankings report Alif Ailaan launched its “Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015” on 7 May 2015 in Islamabad. This is the third edition of our groundbreaking study, first published in May 2013, addressing the state of education across Pakistan’s 148 districts. Many renowned individuals including politicians, journalists, civil society members, activists, students, teachers and researchers attended the launch event. Close to 450 participants joined us at the venue while almost 150 people watched the event online. Top, left to right: Minister for Defence, Water and Power Khawaja Asif, Minister for Education Baligh-ur-Rahman, MNA and Chairperson BISP Marvi Memon Bottom, left to right: PPP Senator Osman Saifullah Khan, ANP Leader Afrasiab Khan Khattak, PTI MNA Shafqat Mehmood Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015 • Politicians from all major political parties shared their thoughts with the audience • Leading personalities from academia and the civil society joined the panel for additional insight and analysis on the Alif Ailaan District Education Rankings 2015 Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015 In addition to the highly successful attendance by politicians from across all of Pakistan’s major political parties, there was a great turn out amongst the audience. Audience members keenly followed the speeches made by the panelists. The following items were launched at the event; the report in English and Urdu, a four pager summary in English, Urdu Regional Profile Pages along with an Online Web Portal with district profile pages. These can be accessed through the Alif Ailaan website: http://www.alifailaan.pk/district_rankings. Bottom Left: Ms. Saman Naz (Data and Evidence Campaign Manager, Alif Ailaan & Co-Author of Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015) discusses the report on FM 89.4, Suno Pakistan. Bottom Right: Mr. Imran (Civil Society Campaign Manager, Alif Ailaan) being interview by FM 89.4, Suno Pakistan Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015 District Education Rankings Online Web Portal At the occasion of the launch of the Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015, we also launched our online web portal. It is an interactive heat map map with summary of education indicators across Pakistan showing the district wise rankings. We have also introduced downloadable district profile pages in the portal which can help the viewers get a brief picture of the situation of education in any district. The portal can be accessed at: h1p://www.alifailaan.pk/district_educaon_rankings Supporting the role of data in education reform Supporting Education Reform through the use of Data Ms. Saman Naz (Data and Evidence Campaign Manager, Alif The panel discussion took place at IBA, Karachi in Ailaan) participated in a panel discussion on Challenges and which Ms.Saman Naz shared her experience of data Possibilities of Working with Data in Pakistan held on Saturday collection, data analysis and challenge of finding May 9, 2015 at d|Bootcamp Karachi, the first ever data boot reliable data in Pakistan. camp in Pakistan. She also introduced Pakistan Data Portal and discussed the challenges of Open Data in the country. Budget Campaign: pushing for an increase in the education budget to 4% of the GDP Alif Ailaan launched its official budget campaign this month. The campaign is based on the central concept of increased spending on education to 4% of the GDP. This is represented via a television ad. Alif Ailaan’s advertising campaign shows that we have put the image of an education institution on the Rs.1000 note, demonstrating that we hold education in high regard. Yet, ironically we have failed to invest in education. The Ad campaign will be run from 15 May- 15 June with 903 spots across 9 channels.The ad can be viewed here: http://www.alifailaan.pk/taleemi_budget_barhaao The budget campaign’s main call to action is a letter campaign addressing letters to the Federal Minister for Finance, Mr. Ishaq Dar. The campaign calls upon concerned citizens of Pakistan by urging them to ensure that education is a priority in this years budget. Alif Ailaan has compiled data from 148 districts in Pakistan to help generate informed letters from citizens asking for improvement in the education sector. Citizens are persuaded through media campaigns to send a letter to the Federal Minister for Finance via the Alif Ailaan website. The campaign proceeds to send hard copies of the letters on behalf of the website users. Budget Campaign: pushing for an increase in the education budget to 4% of the GDP Dawn adopts Alif Ailaan’s Education Map Alif Ailaan has developed a strong relation with Dawn.com which has continued to be an influential supporter of the campaign. Dawn.com gets over 1 million users every day and is one of the highest visited website in the country. Through our efforts, Dawn.com has adopted the Alif Ailaan Education Map which will be hosted on the website through the life of the budget campaign and beyond. This has given Alif Ailaan’s letter campaign a big boost and will ensure that the tool is available even after the Alif Ailaan campaign comes to an end. Link: http://www.dawn.com/news/1182722 Budget Campaign The budget phase includes budget advocacy sessions with politicians, media advocacy, social media engagement, training and workshops with partners on the ground. Briefing the Journalists As a part of it on-going outreach and capacity building of journalists, Alif Ailaan organised a pre-budget briefing for journalists in Islamabad. This was one in the series of five workshops scheduled to be held across the provincial capitals. The session in Islamabad helped journalists understand the technical aspects of the education budget and key issues.The sessions are aimed at increasing the capacity of journalists for deeper engagement and help and reporting with regard to the federal budget. Media Coverage Alif Ailaan in the Media Following the launch of the District Rankings report, the campaign enjoyed extensive coverage in electronic, print and social media. In addition to electronic and social media coverage, here are some links to our print coverage: Op-Eds and Editorials Quality of education single biggest challenge for education system - Daily Times Educaon Report Card – Dawn, 11 May 2015 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/08-May-2015/ h1p://www.dawn.com/news/1181182/educaon-report-card quality-of-education-single-biggest-challenge-foreducation- system Educaon and Terror – Dawn, 13 May 2015 h1p://www.dawn.com/news/1181619/educaon-and-terror Half of school buildings unsatisfactory – Express Tribune http://tribune.com.pk/story/882691/islamabad-schools-half- Alif Ailaan’s declaraon – Daily Times, 13 May 2015 of-school-buildings-unsatisfactory/ h1p://www.daily:mes.com.pk/E-Paper/Lahore/2015-05-13/ page-6/detail-4 Education sector deep crisis prevails despite progress – Pakistan Today Barring Karachi all districts at rock bottom in nationwide http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/05/08/national/ rankings - The News education-sector-deep-crisis-prevails-despite-progress/ http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-316741- Barring-Karachi-all-districts-at-rock- Girls enrolment in KP increases; Punjab's districts domination 8 out of 10 top positions - Pakistan Observer Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015’ to be launched http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=263381 on May – Daily Times http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/05-May-2015/ Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings launched - pakistan-district-education-rankings-2015-to-be-launched- Business Recorder on-may-7 http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172/1184164/ Media Coverage • Print coverage continued: TV bulletins www.dawn.com/news/1180719/state-of-education-not-any-better-this-year Geo News • ARY News It's time to fix our education system: Khawaja Asif – Business Recorder Waqt News • http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172/1184164/ Capital News Islamabad tops in provision of best primary education: Report – The Nation Abb Tak News http://nation.com.pk/islamabad/08-May-2015/islamabad-tops-in-provision-of-best- Samaa primary-education-report Aaj News Dawn News Girls’ enrolment increases in KP - Daily Nai Baat PTV http://naibaat.com.pk/ePaper/islamabad/08-05-2015/details.aspx?id=p8_15.jpg ATV Education sector in Pakistan is traditional suffering an emergency Daily - Jehan Pakistan Khyber TV http://www.jehanpakistan.com/epaper/detail_news.php?news=%2Fepaper%2Fepaper Express TV %2Fislamabad%2F080515%2Fp3-01.jpg#sthash.uPTiTsU7.dpbs Sindh TV 92 HD TV Programmes Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath – Geo News Radio bulletins Alif Ailaan District Education Rankings 2015 was mentioned by Shahzeb Khanzada on his FM 94.6 popular TV show on Geo on 7 May 2015. Jinnah Radio http://www.awaztoday.tv/News-Talk-Shows/85440/Aaj-Shahzaib-Khanzada-Kay-Sath-7th- FM 100 May-2015.aspx FM 99 (from 18.14 to 21.46 minutes of video) FM 94.6 Imtiaz Alam Kay Sath – Capital TV FM 105 Alif Ailaan district education rankings discussed in a prime time show on Capital TV. Saman FM 103 participated in the live show http://www.zemtv.com/2015/05/10/imroze%e2%80%ac-imtiaz-alam-ke-sath-10th-may-2015/ Budget Campaign: Advocacy Budget Advocacy with politicians through All Parties Conferences May has been an exciting and active month with regard to Political Advocacy at Alif Ailaan.
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