An Integrated Education and Learning Initiative

1. i-Saksham
An Integrated Education and
Learning Initiative
In remote and conflict-affected areas
i-Saksham.org
facebook.com/SakshamJamui

2. AN INITIATIVE LED BY A STRONG FIELD TEAM AND EXPERIENCED
MENTORS
Mentors/Board
Ex-ED, PRADAN
30+ yrs of Experience in Rural
Livelihoods
Executive Team
Soumen Biswas
Ex- Chief Secretary, Bihar
Anup Mukerji
MD, i3 Consulting
Ex- McKinsey
15+ yrs of Experience in Analytics and
Business Consulting
Sandeep Uppal
MCA, JNU (Delhi)
PMRDF, i3 Consulting, McKinsey & Co
10+ Years Experience in Business
Analytics, System Design Re-
Engineering, and Consulting
Aditya Tyagi
MBA, Symbiosis (Pune)
PMRDF, Samhita, SKS Microfinance
7+ Years in Microfinance and
Education
Shravan Jha
PGDRM, IRMA (Anand)
PMRDF, BASIX
5+ Years Experience in Microfinance,
Development Administration
Ravi Dhanuka
Shweta Anand Arora
Director, The Education Alliance

3. “LEARNING CRISIS PREVAILS IN THE COUNTRY”
(ASER STUDY, 2014)*
Poor children, esp in remote/poor/naxal
affected areas lack access to quality
education
Of Rural students
enrolled in Class V*
Cannot read
Class II text
Cannot do
subtraction
Cannot read basic
English sentences
52%
61%
82%
Further, youth also do not have access to quality skill/self-learning opportunity

4. Learning Centre by Rural Youth
from marginal families (with inter-
linked community interface and
inbuilt accountability mechanisms)
i-SAKSHAM AIMS TO FILL THE VACUUM OF QUALITY EDUCATION
AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN VILLAGES
Training on pedagogy, and
teaching skills; on-site
observation & feedback
Digital technology for standardized
content, assessment and data
management
With participation of local
youth and community, at
least a part of the crisis in
primary education can be
taken off by ensuring
standardized pedagogy,
and content (also
imparted digitally) while
simultaneously generating
local employment
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5. i-SAKSHAM MODEL WILL DEVELOP COMMUNITY TUTORS WHO
WILL IMPART EDUCATION ALONG WITH BEING SELF EMPLOYED
Local youth is trained in Pedagogy &
Tutoring skills using a tablet
Youth teaches children (but also has
potential to give digital literacy training/
information on socio-economic issues to
local people, in future)
The community tutor also gets an
opportunity to earn basic income
i-Saksham provides training, monitoring
and mentoring support

6. Cycle of training intervention
2. Baseline assessment of children
to build learning action
plans/syllabus
4 A. Training on pedagogy
(teaching of language, EVS,
Mathematics)
4 C. Training of computer skills,
and functional English
5. A. On-site observation and feedback on learned teaching skills; B.
Mid-term/End-term assessment of children
1. Baseline observation of
tutors to infer training needs
3. Multi-grade syllabus based
on govt. text books, and digital
content
4 B. Training on teaching skills
(centre management, child
behaviour management,
lesson/session plans, values, etc.

7. How change will happen
A trained cadre of community tutors,
providing primary education
Employment to youth, within village
A virtuous cycle of more educated children,
more youths willing to be community tutors
Examples of excellence with the community,
more accountability for public education
system

8. Relevance of i-Saksham intervention with various govt. schemes
: i-Saksham aims to align the delivery of these community
learning centres with NCF and State Board Syllabus
‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan’ that encourages matriculated young
girls to teach illiterate women.
Newly launched ‘Vidyanjali’ aims at involving
professionals/retired service-men to teach within the community
National Digital Literacy Mission, which aims to make one
member from every family digitally literate.
Skill India’ i-Saksham seeks to develop tutorship as skill, and
creates a new cadre of digitally trained community tutors

9. Acclamations received, and existing Partnerships
NSDC approved training partner for providing ‘tutorship’ skill
training
Top 5 proposals under ‘Skill innovation Initiative’, convened by
NSDA
Top 50 proposals under ‘Innovate for Digital India’, by DST and
Intel
Top 50 proposals under SAGY
Recognition by CIPS
Winner of e-NGO Award, Manthan Award, and Mobile 4 Good
Award, by DEF
Content support sourced from multiple organizations
including E&Y Foundation
In discussion with Nucleus Software Foundation to source
tablets
Training and assessment methodology already in place

10. Current Operating Status
An NSDC approved training partner
Providing on-site support to 30 community learning centres
Trained 100 community tutors, will complete the training of 250
by March’17, with the supported budget of 35 lakhs for FY 2016-
17.
A team of 15 people
Reaching out to 1000 children

11. Financial sustainability in 3-5 years
Not-to generate high revenue from education services (only nominal
community contributions)
A poor youth is trained who provide education to poor children
Diversification of sources of fund, and enhancement of youth income
Trained youths can work on additional projects of digital literacy, financial literacy,
and awareness on socio-economic issues, with the aid of digital technology
Teacher’s training and assessment support to other Organizations
i-Saksham will provide such services to other organizations/govt./private
players and garner resources to meet the costs
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12. Thank You
“All the wealth of the world cannot help one little Indian village
if the people are not taught to help themselves. Our work
should be mainly educational, both moral and intellectual”
- Swami Vivekananda