EducatingSocial Change:TF Case Study

Dr. Zafar QadirDirector General

Akhtar Hameed Khan NCRD / Chairman, Taaleem Foundation

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Balochistan

KILLA SAIFULLAH

LORALAI

SUI

ZHOB

MASTUNG

MUSLIM BAGH

PISHIN

KOHLU

TFGRAMMARSCHOOLSYSTEM

Brief Facts• Smart NGO born in 1989 and registered in 1993

• Established 8 schools in tribal districts of Balochistan, having over 4000 students and 250 graduate lady teachers

• Providing quality schooling, modern curriculum, Quran lessons, co-education and all-female faculty

• Encouraging female participation, participatory development, public-private partnership and self-sustenance

• Establishing a vocational training center for women in Sui (Dera Bugti) to promote economic empowerment

• Pilot testing e-Education and e-Health at Sui (Dera Bugti)

Recognition

• Recognized as the Social Entrepreneurship Project of the year by a US based think-tank 'PUSH Institute' at the University of Minneapolis in June 2005,

• Taaleem Foundation was selected as one of the two success stories in Asia (the other being ‘Grameen Mobile’ of Bangladesh) and invited to share experience for assessing the possibility of replicating this conceptual model in Africa to combat poverty and crime.

• 1000 plus students in professional careers

• Single largest social change agent in rural Balochistan

Situational Analysis

• Quality and competency level of Teachers?• Expensive and scattered internet access• Low electrification and power shortage• Relevance and efficacy of educational content• Linguistic constraints and gender disparity• ICT can narrow digital divide and bridge development gap• Huge potential of engineered social change if ICT deployed

for triggering rural development• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through reliable

partners delivers well with socio-economic dividends

Diagnostics

• Lack of clarity on educational goal posts• Planning and development - gender insensitive• Curriculum and teaching philosophy out of step• Performance of public sector HRD institutions • IMR, MMR and epidemics still a big challenge• Reluctance of teachers, doctors and other

professionals to work in remote areas• Madrassas devoid of modern knowledge

Sustainable Solution

• Optimizing the use of existing infrastructure with little value

addition through technology inputs

• Enabling technologies available to network social sector

institutions of education, health and skills

• Modern educational content available through Intel and

Microsoft with supporting A.V. aids

• Health related e-data transfer not an issue any more

• Recognizing ICT as an agent of social change

Technology Input

• Establishing Telecentres to act as a public place with access to computers, Internet, and other digital technologies at public sector HR institutions

• Focus on e-Education, e-Health and e-Skill for students, teachers, parents and the community

• Provision for adding e-Commerce, e-Agriculture, e-Jobs, e-Languages and e-Kiosks etc.

• Replication for up-scaling in all schools and madrassas• Thereby engineering social change through qualitative inputs

Pilot Testing at Sui

• Successful pilot testing at TF School in Sui - Dera Bugti

• e-Learning based educational content delivered from Karachi studio: using high speed broadband; telecasting live and recorded content with interactive facility

• During afternoons - the center can provide e-Health services by doctors at home or abroad, with live medical data transfer facility over broadband

• May add e-Skills facility over weekends, using City & Guild –UK training content – to make our HR exportable commodity

Tangible Impact• Break-even within one year; savings thereon

• Burden of recurring cost shared by community

• Technically sound vendors industry to flourish

• Job creation in private sector encouraged

• Promotes sustainable livelihood and growth

• Mainstreaming madrassas in use of modern technologies

• Economically viable, and politically sellable

• Win-win-win for government, community and CSR partner

Long Term Gains• Gender mainstreaming in development

• Standardizing knowledge base across the country

• Producing skilled / exportable human resource

• Harnessing young entrepreneurs with basic inputs

• Creating economic opportunities in all areas

• Promoting sustainable livelihood and growth

• Strengthening socio-cultural integration of society

• Thereby inculcating value loaded national pride

Details at: www.taaleem.pk