Following the School Paisa District Jhang Report 2013 Contents List of Tables ........................................................................................................................................... iii List of Figures .......................................................................................................................................... iii Acronyms ................................................................................................................................................. iv Executive Summary: .................................................................................................................................... vi Acknowledgement ...................................................................................................................................... vii Centre for Peace and Development Initiative: ........................................................................................... viii Introduction and Background: ..................................................................................................................... ix Chapter 1: Research Methodology:............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Research Objectives: ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Sampling ............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 Research Analysis Framework: .......................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 2: District Education Profile: ........................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Enrolment Rate ................................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Share of Institutions ............................................................................................................................ 4 2.3 Number of Teachers ............................................................................................................................ 5 2.4 Missing Facilities ................................................................................................................................ 6 Chapter 3: The meso story: District Budgetary Analysis ....................................................................... 8 3.1 Total Current Education Budget ......................................................................................................... 8 3.1.1 Current Budget: Salary and Non-Salary ........................................................................... 8 3.1.2 Total Current Budget for Primary Education .................................................................... 9 Table 3.2: Share of Salary and Non-salary Costs in the Current Budget of Primary ..................... 11 3.1.3 Total Current Budget for Middle and Secondary Education ........................................... 11 3.1.4 Allocation per Student .................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 4: Service Delivery Assessment .................................................................................................... 13 4.1 General Characteristics ..................................................................................................................... 13 4.2 Enrolments and Pass outs (Gender Perspective) ............................................................................... 14 4.3 Teacher’s Positions ........................................................................................................................... 16 4.4 Facilities in schools ........................................................................................................................... 17 4.5 School Council .................................................................................................................................. 18 4.6 Monitoring ........................................................................................................................................ 22 Page i Chapter 5: Citizens’ Voices ........................................................................................................................ 24 5.1 General Characteristics ..................................................................................................................... 24 5.2 Availability of facilities in School .................................................................................................... 26 5.3 Access to Services ............................................................................................................................ 29 5.4 Satisfaction with School Facilities .................................................................................................... 31 5.5 School Council Functions and Performance ..................................................................................... 32 5.6 Out-of-Pocket Expenditures .............................................................................................................. 35 Chapter 6: The Micro Tale: School Analysis ....................................................................................... 36 6.1 Do schools get their money? ............................................................................................................. 36 6.2 Does money reach on time? .............................................................................................................. 37 6.3 Do schools get all the money? .......................................................................................................... 37 6.4 Do schools spend all the money? If yes, on what? ............................................................................ 38 6.5 Do schools generate funds? ............................................................................................................... 38 6.6 Compliance with RTE ....................................................................................................................... 39 6.7 Are schools apolitical? ...................................................................................................................... 40 Chapter 7: Conclusion and Recommendations ........................................................................................... 41 7.1 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 41 7.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................. 42 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................... 44 ANNEXURE........................................................................................................................................... 45 1. Beneficiary Assessment Survey- Household Questionnaire .............................................................. 45 2. PETS- School Questionnaire ............................................................................................................... 55 3. Parent-FGD Guide .............................................................................................................................. 69 4. Teacher-FGD Guide ............................................................................................................................ 74 5. SC-FGD Guide ..................................................................................................................................... 79 6. Field Movement Plan ......................................................................................................................... 84 Page ii List of Tables 1.1 Sample Size: Phase I & II 2.1 Enrolments in Jhang 2.2 Enrolment Rates (GER & NER) 2.3 Gross Number of Teachers 2.4 School Without Basic Facilities in District Jhang 3.1 Current Budget for Primary Education (Rs. Million) 3.2 Share of Salary and Non salary costs in the Current Budget of Primary Education (Gender disaggregated Data) 3.3 Current Budget for Secondary Education (Rs. Million) 3.4 Unit cost in District Jhang 4.1 Delivery of SC funds 5.1 Number of school visited 5.2 Resident and Non-Resident Head Teachers 5.3 Experience of Head Teachers 5.4 Enrolment by type 5.5 Appeared and passed 5.6 Allocated, filled-in & vacant teaching positions 5.7 Major and minor repair 5.8 Year of School Council Establishment 5.9 Chairperson of School Council 5.10 Role and Function of School Council 5.11 Purpose of visit 6.1 Level of Education of Parents (Percent) 6.2 School Level Facility 6.3 Provision of books 6.4 Distance to Schools 6.5 Satisfaction with school facilities 6.6 Knowledge about School Council 6.7 Performance of School Council 6.8 Effectiveness of SC 6.9 Average Fee & Cost List of Figures 2.1 Number of Educational Institutions 2.2 % of Missing Facilities 3.1 Total Current Education Budget 3.2 Salary and Non-Salary Costs in Current Education Budget – District Jhang 3.3 Total Current Budget for Secondary Education 5.1 Facilities in Schools 5.2 Composition of SC 6.1 Employment Status