India Literacy Project
A catalyst for 100% literacy in India
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
India Literacy Project (ILP), founded in 1990, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the cause of literacy and education in India. The education scenario in India has seen rapid progress over the last two decades in addressing the diverse challenges. Over 65% of children in India attend government schools. -Enrollment in primary schools has increased to around 96% and school infrastructure has also improved, but there are still significant challenges in enrollment for vulnerable communities. - Enrollment numbers are low in vulnerable communities. - Retention beyond secondary school is a challenge in many places. - Learning levels are very low across government school children. The primary objectives of all ILP programs are to enroll and retain children in government schools and enable them to attain grade appropriate learning levels and skills and create pathways to productive careers,
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
The primary objectives of all ILP programs are to enroll and retain children in government schools and enable them to attain grade appropriate skills and competencies.
Our projects focus on vulnerable communities who face challenges with universal coverage, out of school children, poor attendance and retention. Some of these communities are primitive tribal groups , socially disadvantaged communities such as scheduled castes, linguistic minority communities at interstate borders and migrant populations like brick kiln workers and deep rural communities.. We work in these communities to ensure children are enrolled in school, attend school regularly and transition to higher grades while achieving desired learning competencies. We build community ownership and participation by activating and strengthening the mothers committees and school monitoring committees. All our projects are executed in Government schools with the goal of scalability and sustainability. Our philosophy is to leverage the existing infrastructure and teachers to make education more effective.
Schooling
Enroll and retain children in preschools and schools, and ensure active participation of community in children's education.
Learning
Enable Learning through innovative methods.
Earning
Empower children with information about careers, identify their interests and abilities to enable them to create career pathways.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of students provided career guidance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of students who were provided career guidance and counselling to create their own career pathways based on their interests and abilities.
Number of children covered (across all our programs)
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows the number of students who are covered by our programs.
Number of children learning using our innovative learning tools
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of children learning in classrooms with our digital content, science kits and libraries (part of our innovative MDLS program)
Number of teachers trained
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of teachers trained to conduct classes using our hands on science kits and audio visual lessons and digital content
Number of schools and preschools covered by our programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Number of schools and preschools where our programs are implemented.
Number of villages covered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth
Related Program
Enrollment, Retention and Learning of children in schools enabling them to create career pathways
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This metric shows the number of villages we work in. We work with all the children and community in these villages.
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The primary objectives of all ILP programs are to enroll and retain children in government schools and enable them to attain grade appropriate skills and create pathways to productive careers.
Our projects focus on vulnerable communities who face challenges with universal coverage, out of school children, poor attendance and retention. Some of these communities live in deep rural areas and are primitive tribal groups , socially disadvantaged communities such as scheduled castes, linguistic minority communities at interstate borders and migrant populations like brick kiln workers. We work in these communities to ensure children are enrolled in school, attend school regularly and transition to higher grades while achieving desired learning competencies.
Access: Work with government to open new schools where there is none
Enrollment: Ensure that children are going to school
Retention: Ensure that students are continuously attending school
Learning: Improve learning outcomes in school
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We work in 6,000 schools across 8 states with a focus on
1. Enrollment & Retention in government preschools and schools
2. Enable Learning in innovative ways - Designing and deploying high quality, low cost, learning tools and a learning framework that empowers teachers and helps children attain grade appropriate skills.
3. Empowering students with career pathways - A Career guidance and pathways program driven by students’ interest and adaptive to their abilities, is relevant to their lives beyond school, and enables them to create and own pathways to their desired careers.
Our Approach
= Work with rural communities and government schools in India to enroll, retain and ensure children attain grade appropriate skills and competencies.
- Partner with local NGOs and create sustained community engagement and ownership around government schools and children’s education by strengthening School Monitoring Committees and Bal Vikas Committees / Mother’s Committees.
- Design and deploy high quality, low cost, replicable interventions to address gaps in delivery of education through the government system
- Provide the expertise in governance, evaluation and tracking to deliver sustainable projects that will continue long after the ILP has ended its program in that area.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
ILP selects a group of villages to work in, based on the needs assessment and alignment to our organizational strategy. Selection factors include remoteness of the area, overall literacy rate, and presence of vulnerable communities. There are two ways for project execution
ILP directly implements the project as an incubation engine for a new innovation program that will be eventually be scaled through Government partnership
ILP selects and partners with NGOs in the targeted area to implement the project. ILP provides guidance and monitoring to the NGO, while leveraging the NGO’s inputs to execute efficiently.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since Inception, ILP has supported 120 projects across 8 states in India, working on Access, Enrollment, Retention & Learning.
In the last decade we have
- Worked with the community to get over 100 preschools and schools established/upgraded by the government to provide access to school
- Enrolled over 20,000 children back into school & supported the retention of over 500,000 children in school
- Through our innovative learning tools (science kit, digital content, social sciences through google earth) we have supported the learning outcomes of over 100,000 children
- Activated the School Monitoring Committe's to participate in school governance in over 1000 schools across different states.
- Providing career guidance and counselling for over 100,000 students.
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Operations
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India Literacy Project
Board of directorsas of 09/18/2023
Mr RajKishore Govindu
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Venki Venkatesh
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Padmaja Sathyamoorthy
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Sandeep Shroff
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Malini Nagarajan
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Rajkishore Govindu
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Minniue Uppuluri
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Uma Venkatesh
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Aravindan Sankaramurthy
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