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Digital feedback platforms can strengthen citizen voice and contribute to improvements in education service delivery. However, they need to be embedded in functioning institutional and accountability systems in order to work well. The Olavula...

This article critically evaluates the most important data set on teacher absence in sub-Saharan Africa, namely the World Bank’s national education service delivery indicator school surveys which have been conducted in 10 countries during the last...

Les comités de gestion des écoles (COGES) constituent une rupture importante dans le fonctionnement du service éducatif en Afrique subsaharienne. Introduisant un nouveau paradigme selon lequel la gouvernance des écoles est partagée entre l’ensemble...

In the mid-1990s, Ugandan primary schools received only one-fifth of intended government capitation grants. A seminal study shows that a grassroots newspaper campaign substantially reduced grant capture and improved educational outcomes. We replicate...

In an era of growing public access to information, how can data be better used to encourage transparency and accountability in the education sector? This study looks at the case of school report cards (SRCs), examining various models and conditions...

The BE-PRO-MAP technology platform FITCAM aims to increase the ability of ordinary citizens (within local beneficiaries communities of public investment projects) to monitor performance in the delivery and management of the public investment budget...

What are the best ways to ensure that scholarships, conditional cash transfers, free school meals, and so on, actually reach their intended beneficiaries? This book assumes that different models of design, targeting, and management of pro-poor...