Background

Informed was tasked with the baseline for Right To Play’s Enhancing Quality and Inclusive Education (EQIE) project in Palestine, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The goal of the program was to enhance the quality of inclusive education with two main objectives: (1) to improve children’s minimum proficiency level in reading, focused on children in primary Grades 1-4, and (2) increase access and retention of out-of-school children, particularly children with disabilities. Informed was responsible for the study design, data collection tool design/refinement, enumerator training, data collection, analysis, and reporting for each of the countries.

objectives

The assessment had three main objectives:

1. Assess the program’s starting point within each of the programming contexts

2. Inform the program design and strategy

3. Establish baseline measurements against which improvement and impact will be measured during midline and endline evaluations

Activities

Informed designed and carried out a quasi-experimental evaluation that included a student literacy and social-emotional learning assessment, a parent phone survey, classroom lesson observation, and teacher, principal, and community leader interviews. Deliverables included:

• Inception report and evaluation framework

• Data collection tools

• Enumerator training manual and presentation

• Country-level baseline reports, presentations, and communication briefs

Resources

Note: The complete assessment report is an internal document.

Check out Right To Play’s work on their website.