2012 Baseline Report-Buner Monitoring and Evaluation Department Children’s Global Network-Pakistan 2/17/2012 1 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 3 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 7 METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................................... 9 SCHOOL SURVEY .................................................................................................................................. 12 Section:1School Profile ............................................................................................................................. 12 1.1 Number of schools .................................................................................................................. 12 1.2 Enrollment .............................................................................................................................. 13 1.2.3 Grade Wise Enrollment ...................................................................................................... 14 1.3 School Information ................................................................................................................ 15 Section 2: Teachers Profile ....................................................................................................................... 17 2.1 Number of Teachers .............................................................................................................. 17 2.2 Student Teacher Ratio ........................................................................................................... 17 2.3 Qualification and Experience ................................................................................................ 20 2.4 Salaries .................................................................................................................................... 22 Section 3: School Facilities ....................................................................................................................... 23 3.1 Clean Drinking water ............................................................................................................ 23 3.2 Electricity ................................................................................................................................ 24 3.3 Toilets ...................................................................................................................................... 24 3.4 Playground ............................................................................................................................. 25 3.5 Garbage ................................................................................................................................... 26 3.6 Boundary Wall ....................................................................................................................... 26 Section 4: Classroom Information ........................................................................................................... 27 4.1 Attendance Registers ............................................................................................................. 27 4.2 Blackboards ............................................................................................................................ 28 4.3 Table/Desks ............................................................................................................................. 28 4.4 Floor Mats & Benches ........................................................................................................... 29 4.5 Learning Aid/ Manipulatives ................................................................................................ 29 4.6 Lighting, Ventilation & Leaks in the ceilings ...................................................................... 30 4.7Wall Material .......................................................................................................................... 31 4.8 Kachi class .............................................................................................................................. 32 Section 5: Parent Teacher Council .......................................................................................................... 33 5.1 Budgeting ................................................................................................................................ 33 2 5.2 Meetings & Issues .................................................................................................................. 34 HOUSEHOLD SURVEY ......................................................................................................................... 36 Section 1: Household Roster .................................................................................................................... 37 1.1 Demography ........................................................................................................................... 37 1.2 Age Distribution ..................................................................................................................... 38 1.3 Education Status-Gender Wise ............................................................................................. 38 1.3.1 Currently Enrolled.............................................................................................................. 39 1.3.2 Dropped Out ........................................................................................................................ 39 1.4 Distance from school .............................................................................................................. 41 Section 2: Parents Attitudes and Beliefs ................................................................................................. 42 CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................................................... 44 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The baseline survey was conducted in 7 Union Councils (UCs) of Buner (Totalai, Kawga, Rega, Norezai, Chinglai, Amazai, Ghurgushto) with the fundamental objective being to assess the educational infrastructure and learning atmosphere of the region after the military operation and also to streamline the willingness of the stakeholders towards new initiatives. More specifically, the report provides data and in depth analysis on the schools, teachers, Parent Teacher Councils and communities regarding the existing infrastructure and the prevalent perceptions of different stakeholders regarding education. This includes the physical and psychological environment of classrooms, enrollment and promotion rates, stakeholders‟ willingness towards education, parents‟ attitudes and beliefs and other important factors affecting the quality of education in the District Buner. The analysis will also focus on the gender gaps and a few suggestions as to how to overcome them. The baseline was conducted in 140 (118 boys and 22 girls) government schools in the 7 UCs. Since similar interventions were to be carried out in all of the 140 schools, the sample size could not be divided into different groups for differential interventions. 220 households were also selected randomly for the survey from only 5 UCs: Totalai, Norezai, Chinglai, Ghurgushto and Rega. The areas of Amazai and Kawga not only had a difficult terrain for travelling, the houses were more scattered and hence given the human resource and financial constraints, conducting household surveys in these regions was not feasible. Another reason for conducting the household surveys in only 5 UCs is that in Amazai and Kawga, our sample size (and hence the schools in which we had our intervention) did not include all schools in the Union Council, which would have prevented us from drawing a complete picture of education in the UC. The study questionnaire was quite comprehensive and designed in a simple language that could easily be understood by data collectors & study subjects. The questionnaire was developed in English language, but the enumerators were properly trained to use it in the Pushto language. It includes all the questions related to Project Objectives. Two major tools that were used were the following: School Profile: School Record/Information Teacher‟s Profile Grade Wise Enrollment School Facilities Classroom Facilities and Observation Parent Teacher Council profile Visits of Education Department Household Profile Household Roster Educational Status of Members Parent‟s Attitudes and Beliefs 4 The total enrollment in the 140 schools was found to be 30,070 out of which 18,602 were boys and 11, 468 girls. The difference was noted to be not that high considering that the number of boys‟ schools surveyed far exceeded the number of girl schools. Analysis of the UC wise enrollment showed that the enrollment in Ghurgushto, Chinglai and Totalai far exceeded the others. Analyses of teachers‟ profile show us that the allocation of teachers to primary schools needs to be rationalized. Currently, there is high variance of student to teacher ratios; where some schools are having ratios as low as 10:1 while other have high ratios around 200:1. UC-wise analysis of the ratios show that the situation is worst in Ghurgushto, Chinglai