Following the School Paisa District Toba Tek Singh Report 2013 Table of Contents List of Tables ....................................................................................................................................... i List of Figures ...................................................................................................................................... i Acronyms ............................................................................................................................................ ii Executive Summary: .............................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgement ................................................................................................................................. iv Centre for Peace and Development Initiative: ........................................................................................ v Introduction and Background: ............................................................................................................... vi 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 ...................................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Missing Facilities .......................................................................................................................... 5 Chapter 3: The meso story: District Budgetary Analysis........................................................................ 8 3.1 Total Education Budget ............................................................................................................. 8 3.2 Total current Education Budget ................................................................................................... 9 3.2.1 Current Budget: Salary and Non-Salary .................................................................................... 9 3.2.2 Total Current Budget for Primary Education ........................................................................... 10 3.2.3 Total Current Budget for Middle and Secondary Education ................................................... 11 3.3 Total Development Budget for Education ............................................................................... 12 3.3.1 Development Budget for Elementary Education ..................................................................... 13 3.3.2 Development Budget for Secondary Schools .......................................................................... 14 3.4 Per student Allocation .............................................................................................................. 14 Chapter 4: Service delivery Assessment ............................................................................................... 16 4.1 General Characteristics ............................................................................................................ 16 4.2 Enrolments and Pass outs (Gender Perspective) ...................................................................... 18 4.3 Teacher’s Positions .................................................................................................................. 20 4.4 Facilities in schools .................................................................................................................. 20 4.5 School Council ......................................................................................................................... 21 4.6 Monitoring ............................................................................................................................... 25 Chapter 5: Citizens’ Voices .................................................................................................................. 27 5.1 General Characteristics ............................................................................................................ 27 5.2 Availability of facilities in School ........................................................................................... 28 5.3 Access to Services................................................................................................................... 30 5.4 Satisfaction with School Facilities ........................................................................................... 32 5.5 School Council Functions and Performance ............................................................................ 34 5.6 Out-of-Pocket Expenditures ..................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 6: The Micro Tale: School Analysis ................................................................................. 38 6.1 Do schools get their money? .................................................................................................... 38 6.2 Does money reach on time? ..................................................................................................... 38 6.3 Do schools get all the money? ................................................................................................. 39 6.4 Do schools spend all the money? If yes, on what? .................................................................. 39 6.5 Do schools generate funds? ..................................................................................................... 40 6.6 Compliance with RTE.............................................................................................................. 41 6.7 Are schools apolitical? ............................................................................................................. 41 Chapter 7: Conclusion and Recommendations ..................................................................................... 43 7.1 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 43 7.2 Recommendations .................................................................................................................... 44 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................. 46 ANNEXURE......................................................................................................................................... 47 1. Beneficiary Assessment Survey- Household Questionnaire ......................................................... 47 2. PETS- School Questionnaire ......................................................................................................... 55 3. Parent-FGD Guide ......................................................................................................................... 64 4. Teacher-FGD Guide ....................................................................................................................... 68 5. SC-FGD Guide ................................................................................................................................ 72 6. Field Movement Plan .................................................................................................................... 76 List of Tables 1.1 Sample Size: Phase I & II 2.1 Enrolments in Toba Tek Singh 2.2 Gross Number of Teachers 2.3 School With out Basic Facilities in District Toba Tek Singh 3.1 Total Education Budget of Toba Tek Singh (Rs. Million) 3.2 Current Budget for Primary Education (Rs. Million) 3.3 Share of Salary and Non salary costs in the Current Budget of Primary Education (Gender disaggregated Data) 3.4 Current Budget for Secondary Education (Rs. Million) 3.5 Total Development Education Budget (Rs. Million) 3.6 Development Education Budget for Elementary Education (Rs. Million) 3.7 Development Education Budget for Secondary Education (Rs. Million) 3.8 Unit cost in District Toba Tek Singh 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 Time to School 6.6 Satisfaction with school facilities 6.7 Knowledge about School Council 6.8 Performance of School Council