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Only a select number of school-level accountability initiatives in low- and middle-income countries have reduced corruption; improved managerial, parental, and teacher effort; and led to more efficient targeting of reforms and resources. These limited successes, too, appear to be context-specific and difficult to replicate. It is not enough to put information in the public domain and hope that it enhances accountability, especially since marginalized parents and communities have the least amount of time, resources, or influence to take up the reins of structural change. Information interventions need to consider carefully the audience, design, and presumed causal pathway to improved service delivery.

There is a wide consensus among policymakers and practitioners that while access to education has improved significantly for many children in low- and middle-income countries, learning has not kept pace. Information is a key building block of a wide range of strategies that attempts to tackle weaknesses in service delivery and accountability at the school level, even where political systems disappoint at the national level.

This pedagogical video aims to demonstrate simple ways for youth to get involved in the fight against corruption, ranging from the use of tech tools to active participation in protests. The video presents various solutions for involving young people in anti-corruption activities such as counting school supplies, citizen report cards, tech solutions.

This pedagogical video aims to demonstrate simple ways for youth to get involved in the fight against corruption, ranging from the use of tech tools to active participation in protests. It presents various solutions for involving young people in the fight against corruption, such as planning an integrity camp, participating in protests, and utilizing petitions.

Breaking the silence over corruption in education is a mammoth ongoing task which needs a global united front in order to ensure that education goals are met and that children receive the best possible opportunities when learning.

An academic from the International School on Transparency in Integrity 2018 talks about the “Integrity Pacts Project”. It aims to increase civil society participation in public procurement. She also mentions the main challenge of this approach.