Breaking the Silence: ImprovingEducational Access and Technology for Deaf Learners inPakistan
This research aims to enhance communication and learning opportunities for hearing-impaired children across Pakistan by developing a gender-sensitive assistive technology that translates speech into Pakistan Sign Language (PSL). The tool will bridge critical communication gaps and support kindergarten-level education, providing deaf children with essential language skills. By identifying the risk and protective factors influencing access […]
A License to Educate:Understanding Governance,Market, and Outsourcing for Learning and Equity in Punjaband Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Employing a mixed-methods approach, this study investigates factors that enable or constrain the outsourcing of public schools to drive or hinder access and learning of girls and marginalized children in a cost-effective manner and at scale in Punjab and KP. The findings will help the provincial governments for course corrections early on and will also […]
Using Behavioural Insights intoParental Engagement for Improved Learning Outccomes
This study addresses the gap in understanding how contextually tailored, behaviourally informed parental engagement strategies can improve learning outcomes in low-performing regions like Sindh. Focusing on Sukkur division, it will conduct a behavioural diagnostic to design household-specific interventions and assess their impact on parental engagement and student performance. The study will generate granular, actionable data […]
Scaling Impact: Large-ScaleHuman Capital Interventions forLow-Income Children in Punjab
The quasi-experimental study aims at investigating a large-scale, multi-pronged Early Childhood Education programme in public schools spread across 11 districts in South Punjab. The intervention included, among other things, providing ECE training to teachers, providing the schools with ECE caregivers, making available material for teaching and learning, and upgrading ECE classrooms. By comparing the effects […]
Classroom, family and community-related experiences of children with disabilities in mainstream schools in Pakistan
This study explores the experiences of children with disabilities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh. Primary and junior secondary schools will be chosen and children will be sampled to include those with sensory impairment (vision and hearing), physical impairment, intellectual impairment, learning disability and development disorders. Their experiences of teaching methods and learning materials, physical and […]
Exploring Lived Educational and Social Experiences of Children from Religious Minority Backgrounds in Pakistan
This qualitative research with its focus on Pakistani children from religious minorities addresses critical gaps in the understanding of human experience of groups living at the uncomfortable nexus of nationalism and religion. The study aims to get a deeper appreciation of the opportunities, challenges and gaze faced by the children from minority religions traditions, to […]
Increasing Middle School Enrolment for Girls: Testing the Targeted Solutions in Locations with Unrestricted Middle-School Access
This mixed-methods research study aims to empirically unpack the issues of post primary transition of girls in the Chiniot district of Punjab. The research evaluates the effectiveness of a behavior-focused pilot intervention involving parents and community members addressing the high dropout rates between class 5 and class 6. It begins with an analysis of administrative […]