PRATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION

ANNUAL REPORT: 2022-2023

Eve r y C h i l d i n S c h o o l & L e a r n i n g We l l
MESSAGE FROM CEO
The year 2022-23 was a welcome year for us. After two long years of schools and institutions being closed, we finally had a full
year of continuous work. In all states, schools, colleges and training institutions opened by April 2022 and remained open for
the entire school year till March 2023. We restarted our work in communities, schools and training centres but with a fresh
perspective. We remembered what had worked well in these contexts before the COVID-19 pandemic. But now we could add
and integrate lessons learned during the last two years. For example, we have always believed that families and communities
play a big role in children’s development. Both with children and youth, it is really during the COVID-19 pandemic when we
could not rely on anyone else that we saw the full potential of family engagement and community partnerships. Now, in our
education programs, neighbourhood groups for mothers of young children and youth volunteers working with elementary
school children have become the essential backbone of our activities. Our youth training programs also initiated
community-based efforts. Further, the pandemic taught us the importance of building and strengthening mechanisms by
which we could reach children, youth and communities remotely. In 2022-23, digital content and delivery became a hallmark
of all programs in addition to in-person teaching-learning interventions.

New opportunities to work in partnership with governments started during the long period of school closures. These
continued as schools resumed operations. In addition, the impetus provided by the new National Education Policy 2020
provided a fertile ground for developing new programs with governments. For example, our unique model of mothers
supporting learning of young children was taken up with vigour by state governments in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and
Punjab. We saw uptake of our Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in several states like Uttar Pradesh and Andhra
Pradesh as part of the government strategy for catch-up. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2022), the first one
after the pandemic, provided data on learning losses during school closures.

In the sphere of youth training and skilling, our teams were able to build back and strengthen the process of mobilising,
training and placing young people into jobs. On-the-job training and community-based skilling efforts were also expanded.
Based on the outreach that was done during the pandemic, communities were identified in the catchment area of every
skilling centre. Together these are referred to as YouthNet communities where youth have the opportunity to participate in
courses like Learning for School, Learning for Life and Learning for Work.

In 2022-23, as a large Pratham family, we bounced back - “back to school” and “back to work”. This year has given us the
conviction that it is possible to return from a difficult period, pick up the threads of the past, integrate lessons learned in tough
times and move ahead stronger than before. We are immensely grateful to all those who stayed with us on this journey.
Whether it is children or families, communities or schools, governments and partners, supporters in India and around the
world. We could not have done it without you.

Rukmini Banerji
CEO, Pratham Education Foundation
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OUR REACH 1
EDUCATION & LEARNING 3
a. Foundational Stage 5
b. Elementary Stage 11
SECOND CHANCE 19
DIGITAL INITIATIVES 23
YOUTH & SKILLING 25
ANNUAL STATUS OF EDUCATION REPORT 31
FINANCIALS 33
OUR SUPPORTERS 35
INTERNAL COMMITTEE 37
 OUR REACH
56 Lakh children reached
through government
partnerships (including School
Readiness Melas)

3,700
learners enrolled
for Second Chance

4.75 Lakh 2.17 Lakh

children reached mothers participated in
through volunteer-led mothers’ groups
education activities

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 1.3 Lakh 6.97 Lakh
youth were enrolled in
children reached
vocational/non-vocational
through ASER survey
courses
23 states and UTs
reached through
Pratham activities

5.74 Lakh
children directly reached
through learning activities

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EDUCATION
& LEARNING
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 Education & Learning: Overview
WHAT
Pratham identifies gaps &
opportunities in each age group and
develops solutions based on context
Foundational stage
Early Childhood & Early Years
(Pre-primary and Grades 1-2)
Elementary stage
Primary & Middle School Age
(Grades 3-8)
Education programs
for Youth and Older
(like Second Chance & other
initiatives for girls & women)
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HO W
Pratham works with children via
direct programs and partnerships
DIRECT PROGRAMS
for demonstration & innovation
This includes Hamara Gaon, our flagship program. Each
Hamara Gaon location focusses on 25 communities (rural or
urban). Activities under this program include Learning
Camps using Teaching at the Right Level approach, for
improving children’s learning, and formation of mothers'
groups and community-based children's groups for
supporting children’s development and growth.
PARTNERSHIPS
for scale & spread
With governments
at block, district, city or state level
With communities
large-scale volunteer-led campaigns
 Foundational Stage (Early Years)

Our early childhood initiatives have grown significantly since 2016. Launched in 2020, India’s New Education Policy (NEP
2020) stresses the importance of the foundational stage age-group of 3 to 8 years . This policy direction has led to
intensification of activities within government systems in the last few years, bringing together the early childhood work
(age 3 to 6 years) and interventions for early grades in schools (Grades 1, 2 or age 6-8 years). In this evolving landscape,
Pratham continues to invest heavily in expanding, extending, and exploring how these foundational years can be as
impactful for children as possible.

In 2022-23, Pratham’s “direct” programs reached 190,000 children in the pre-school and Grade 1-2 age group
in 4,500 communities across 18 states of India.
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 Some key features of the Early Years
initiative
Locally available materials:
Pratham’s Early Years interventions focus on the
philosophy of “learning by doing” and therefore a lot
of attention is given to using locally available
materials and things one can easily find at home.

Assessment:
Continuum report cards based on "breadth of skills"
and progression are shared with parents.

Pre-Math Games:
Based on prior research and a series of successful
evaluations, Pratham continued its collaboration with
J-PAL to implement Pre-Math Games, aimed at
developing number sense and spatial understanding
among children.
We believe that a supportive learning environment
at home can contribute in a big way to the overall
development and growth of a child. In our work
with mothers, we aim to:
Improve mothers’ understanding of their child’s
developmental needs
Sustain and strengthen participation of mothers in
their child’s learning journey
Encourage mothers to support each other in
playing and engaging in developmentally
appropriate activities with children

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GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN EARLY YEARS
In 2022-23, Pratham formed statewide partnerships for Early Years in
Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Maharashtra. It also partnered
with district-level initiatives in Karnataka and Telangana.

In Punjab, Pratham aided SCERT Punjab in improving the pre-school

curriculum, training teachers in 13,000 schools, initiating mothers’
workshops involving over 2,00,000+ mothers and creating toy libraries.
Additionally, 2,20,000 Mother Manuals were distributed in October
2022 to support the initiative.

In Maharashtra, Pratham joined the SCERT Maharashtra for the “Pahile

Paul” campaign, which involved organising School Readiness Melas in
70,000 schools. Pratham also provided training to government district
teams to ensure the successful implementation of the melas. Following
the implementation of the School Readiness Melas, NIPUN Maharashtra
was launched, engaging mothers in 2,50,000 groups through Pratham’s
weekly digital content.

Shalebaherchi Shala: Radio-Based Education Program

The special educational radio program ' Shalebaherchi Shala'
which started during COVID-19 pandemic to interact with children,
their parents and teachers, continued into 2022-23. This is a joint
initiative of the Government of Maharashtra and Pratham. This is a
30-minute education program for children of ages 3 to 12 years.
Parents and teachers tune in to the radio at 10:35 am every Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday. This program reached more than 40 lakh
children across 30 districts of Maharashtra.

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In Andhra Pradesh, Pratham continued its remote learning messages campaign via WhatsApp videos for 55,000
Anganwadi workers. As many as 250 model Anganwadi centres were set up across 13 districts, and Anganwadi workers
were trained on pedagogy, assessments, and community engagement for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE).

Pratham entered into a partnership with the state government as a technical knowledge partner on the foundational
learning component of the project Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT). The aim of the partnership is
to assist the state government in strengthening foundational learning across the state and establishing linkages
between Anganwadis and primary schools. Pratham's role includes reviewing the Anganwadi and Grades 1-2
curriculum, materials, development of children's assessments, creating hybrid capacity-building courses for
Anganwadi workers and primary school teachers, and setting up monitoring systems to track progress.

In Chhattisgarh, Pratham partnered with the state government for 'Angana Ma Shiksha' in 2020, engaging mothers to
prepare young children (aged 5-7 years) for school. In 2022-2023, government cadres at the state, division, and block
levels were trained, and an 'Active Mother Community' (AMC) was formed in villages. This was done to assist mothers
in the program throughout the year in developing their children's academic skills and to help organise School
Readiness Melas. The state government's Education Department was the recipient of the prestigious SKOCH Award in
2022 for this program.

In Karnataka, Pratham continued its remote learning messages campaign via WhatsApp videos for
Anganwadi workers. By early 2022, partnerships had expanded to cover five districts benefiting 8,600 Anganwadis
and over 1,33,000 children. Additionally, Pratham formed mothers’ groups in 700 selected Anganwadis.

In Haryana, Pratham continued its remote learning messages campaign via WhatsApp videos targeting Anganwadi
workers. The training covered 26,000 Anganwadi workers focussing on teaching pedagogy. Pratham also facilitated
assessments for children in 4,000 playschools. The district teams from Pratham closely assisted Anganwadi workers
in this endeavour.

In Himachal Pradesh, Pratham supported the state government's Department of Elementary Education. They
improved the pre-school curriculum, trained teachers, and formed over 7,000 mothers’ groups, engaging over 25,000
mothers to help them support their children’s learning at home. Pratham also partnered with NIPUN Himachal to
enhance skills in Grades 1-3 in 10,500 schools.

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Fostering Educational Growth:
A Mother's Dedication Towards
Her Child's Learning Needs
“The fun learning activities that I
learned from Pratham proved to be
a boon for my daughter.”
-Sharda, Maharashtra
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Sharda is a young mother from Akola, Maharashtra.
Her daughter Vedika studies in Grade 1. Sharda
became concerned about Vedika’s learning when
she attended Pratham’s School Readiness Mela in
her village. Vedika remained silent at the mela and
did not participate or answer any of the questions.
At the end of the mela, Sharda was told about the
many learning activities she could do with Vedika
at home using easily available resources. Sharda
also became a part of the mothers’ group in her
village and started taking Vedika to all the
meetings where they discussed different learning
activities.
Seeing other children in the meetings, Vedika also
started participating in different activities and
began to enjoy them. With the help of these
regular home activities, Vedika learned a lot
quickly. When another School Readiness Mela was
held, Vedika enthusiastically participated in all the
activities and assessments. She was excelling in
school as well. Sharda was thrilled with the
progress her daughter had made. She continues to
conduct learning activities with Vedika at home.
 Elementary Stage
The 2022-2023 academic year marked the return of
children to school after an extended break due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. With the introduction of the NEP
2020 and NIPUN Bharat Guidelines (2021) to the Indian
education system, Pratham saw the need to double
down on efforts to ensure elementary grade students
could “catch up” using our Teaching at the Right Level
(TaRL) methodology in schools and communities and
help children achieve basic Foundational Literacy and
Numeracy (FLN) goals.
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Over the course of the year, in our direct programs,
we did a variety of activities in schools and
communities, and with children and families.
Here is a glimpse into Pratham’s flagship program:
Hamara Gaon (Our Village) is an initiative that was
started in 2018 with the aim of improving the basic
learning levels of children and fostering a
sustainable learning environment with engagement
and participation from community members.
HIGHLIGHTS OF HAMARA GAON
Summer Campaign
Schools reopened by April 2022 across India. Soon it was
time for summer vacations. Given the learning losses
experienced during the pandemic, summer seemed to be a
good time for a "catch-up". We expanded our summer
activities beyond the Hamara Gaon ‘core’ communities,
where programs run on an ongoing basis, to include
“catchment” communities as well. Young volunteers
engaged children in Grades 4-6 through learning camps
called ‘CAMaL ka Camps’1 for six weeks.

Volunteers are key to doing activities on scale. Youth

volunteers, who gave time to children in their village, were School Readiness Melas
provided learning opportunities under the “Education for
During the summer of 2022, Pratham also
Education” (EFE) initiative. These are short courses
conducted School Readiness Melas for children
delivered remotely using WhatsApp. In the summer of
who were to enter Grades 1 & 2. Children and
2022, volunteers participated in the “Digital Readiness”
mothers participated in these community-based
course which taught them the basics of using the internet
melas where they did a range of fun, engaging
like creating an email ID, writing an email, using Zoom calls
activities together. Activities included physical
and more.
games, cognitive exercises (like puzzles, seriation,
About 36,000 volunteers reached categorisation), language and pre-math activities.
The main purpose of the mela was to introduce to
2,50,000 children in 15,200 communities. families the importance of “breadth of skills” in
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Pratham’s accelerated learning method is
called “CAMaL” in many Indian languages and
building the foundations of learning and
referred to as “Teaching at the Right Level encouraging families to do such activities at home
(TaRL)” in English. CAMaL means Combined
Activities for Maximised Learning. In this with their children. At the end of the mela, parents
approach, children are grouped according to were given report cards and oriented on how to do
their learning levels rather than grades, and
within these groups targeted the activities at home with their children. The
teaching-learning activities are conducted melas also provided an opportunity for schools
and supplemented by level-appropriate
materials. This approach is used in in-school and families to get to know each other better.
learning camps and in volunteer-led
"catch-up" classes in the community.

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Activities from July
to September 2022
After two years of schools being
closed, it was exciting to get
ready for “normal” operations but
we were also keen to incorporate
learnings from the last two years.
Our experiences during the
pandemic taught us the
important role that mothers and
others, like volunteers, play in
supporting children’s learning. To
do this, we spent the period of Mothers’ Groups
July to September working with Pratham has been working with moth-
mothers and volunteers. ers for several years, however, the
pandemic experience taught us the
Volunteers and Math Mohalla importance of mothers’ groups. Within
Camps each neighbourhood or hamlet in each
Engaging volunteers in a structured way village/community, Pratham team
was important. While Pratham team members spent two months, bringing
members were busy forming and orienting together mothers of young children
mothers’ groups, they also identified and forming groups. These groups
volunteers by hamlets, who would work received materials and instructions
with children to strengthen basic from Pratham to conduct activities.
arithmetic skills. In September 2022, These were used when they met every
community-based Math Mohalla Camps week. Mothers also did such activities
were introduced for Grade 4-5 students. at home with their children.
These camps used the TaRL approach to
improve children’s foundational numeracy
skills. Volunteers assessed, trained, and
supported children in small groups for six 13,100 volunteers completed the camp
weeks. with 98,800 children

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 Activities from November 2022
to March
In-school 2023 Camps
Learning
In-school learning camps
One of the main activities of the Hamara Gaon
program is “learning camps” for children. Each
Pratham team member works in 5 villages and
schools. In each school, children enrolled in
Grades 3-5 are assessed and then grouped by
their current learning levels. Learning camps
are conducted for 10 days at a stretch and
repeated 3 to 4 times (for a total of 30-40
days). Using Pratham’s well-known Teaching at
the Right Level instructional approach, children
make steady progress. Majority achieve basic
reading fluency and number knowledge and
the ability to do arithmetic operations by the
end of the learning camp cycle.

Reached 1,27,000 children from Community-based activities

While Pratham teams work with children at
3,130 communities
schools during school hours in the Learning
Camp mode, community-based activities
such as mothers’ and children’s groups
continue throughout the year, supporting and
sustaining learning activities.

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GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIPS

In 2022-2023, in the Elementary Years space (Grades 1-8), Pratham collaborated with 9 state governments. The
objective was to reach as many children as possible and address their foundational learning gaps. While the
nationwide focus was primarily on implementing Foundational Learning and Numeracy (FLN) initiatives for Grades 1-3,
Pratham also emphasised the importance of “catch-up” programs for children in Grade 3 and above.

Noteworthy partnerships included the introduction of a statewide Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) program in
Andhra Pradesh, benefiting over 10 lakh children in Grades 3-5. This program was initiated after the state conducted
its own survey on learning outcomes using the ASER tool, which highlighted the urgent need for such a program.

In Uttar Pradesh, Pratham proposed to extend the state’s FLN mission for children in Grades 4-5 as well which led to
a statewide collaboration with the government. However, due to limited resources available with the state, the
Pratham UP team trained more than 200,000 government teachers (at later stages this was supported by the Uttar
Pradesh government’s district resources). The classroom implementation and monitoring will start in 2023-24.

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 Additionally, Pratham extended its reach beyond
major states and ventured into previously unexplored
territories and districts with low performance
indicators, such as Changlang district in Arunachal
Pradesh and Daman and Diu, where the TaRL program
was well-received by the government and the
teachers.

While Pratham continued to collaborate with major

states, it also maintained strong relationships with
district governments. For example, Pratham worked in
Osmanabad, an aspirational district in southern
Maharashtra with the lowest learning levels.

In Delhi, Pratham supported the state government’s

"Mission Buniyaad," a catch-up program (previously
implemented as well) at the beginning of the academic
year for children in Grades 3-8, using Pratham's TaRL
approach.

Additionally, the Department of Social Welfare in

Karnataka sought Pratham's expertise to develop an
English catch-up program for children entering Grade 6
in over 800 English medium residential schools.

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With new-found confidence, Vivek
now leads a Pratham community
class, inspiring others.
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Pratham Instills Confidence
and Hope in 16-Year-Old
Aspiring Educator
Vivek, from Uttar Pradesh, believed education was a
privilege that's not for individuals like him. His parents
were not educated and he felt that he didn’t need to
study further. At Grade 5, he was struggling to read. At a
Pratham learning camp, he was seen sitting subdued
and not participating.
What Vivek needed was a promise that education will
open doors for him and break the cycle of poverty. His
parents also needed a change in mindset, a
transformation facilitated by the Pratham team. With
guidance and encouragement, Vivek became an eager
learner. Winning a competition and a national
scholarship boosted his self-belief. With new-found
confidence, Vivek now leads a Pratham community
class, inspiring others. At 16, he looks forward to a future
of possibilities. He wants to become a teacher and give
children the foundational support they deserve.
SECOND CHANCE
And other education initiatives to support girls and women
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Pratham’s Second
Chance Program
Works with school dropouts in a
year-long program, enabling them to
complete secondary schooling.

Other initiatives include supporting

adolescent girls in residential hostels,
mainly Kasturba Gandhi Balika
Vidyalayas, to strengthen their
foundational learning and support
them to reach grade-level
competencies.
These interventions leverage
the presence of existing
institutions to scale tested
solutions. Pratham uses its
capacity for mobilisation of
communities, creation of
engaging content,
communication strategies,
assessment tools and
measurement frameworks
to support these initiatives.
Across 10 states,
2,411 learners appeared
for board exams
Key elements of Pratham's support:
A. Individual support to girls and women at critical life
junctions
Pratham works with girls and women focusing on
literacy, numeracy, technical skills, and also life skills
development, to enhance their confidence and ability to
navigate life.
B. Community support for sustained change
Pratham aims to prevent school dropouts, reintegrate
girls into formal education, and provide vocational
training for women, with support from family members
and community leaders.
C. Enable and facilitate use of remote platforms / use of
digital content
Pratham has embraced technological advancements,
leveraging them to create efficient systems and
promote their utilisation in program delivery.

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Innovations
Remote Second Chance Program
The Second Chance program launched a remote model to
reach dropout girls and women virtually. As many as 660
girls and women across eight states were part of this pilot
and 491 were successful in completing their secondary
education.

Digital School Program

2022-23 was the final year of the Digital School Project, an
innovative remote program model, which was started in
2019. The program, operational in Sitapur district of Uttar
Pradesh, has reached more than 2,300 young girls and has
been the foster ground for several digital innovations in the
Second Chance program sphere.

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV)

Pratham has been working to narrow learning gaps among
girls in Grades 6 to 8 in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas.
Focus is on strengthening foundational literacy and
numeracy skills, enhancing advanced competencies in
Language, Math, and Science, and fostering essential life
skills for adolescent girls for sustained overtime learning.

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Today, as a senior guard in a
shopping mall, she earns well and
supports her family.
Her success inspired her daughter,
who also enrolled in the Second
Chance program.
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Tameshwari's Journey into
Financial Independence with
Second Chance Program
This is Tameshwari Banjare from Chhattisgarh. As a
mother and a wife, her life revolved around her family
and household chores. She had dropped out of
school after failing Grade 10.
In 2020, she heard about Pratham’s Second Chance
program, which helps women and girls who have
dropped out, to complete their Grade 10 exams. She
immediately enrolled and resumed her education
after 15 years. She passed the Grade 10 exams with
distinction. But that's not all. The Second Chance
program not only empowered her academically but
also boosted her personality and self-confidence
through Life Skills classes. With this newfound
confidence, she secured a job as a guard in a mall.
Today, as a senior guard in a shopping mall, she earns
well and supports her family. Her success inspired
her daughter, who also enrolled in the Second
Chance program this year, to complete her
education. A “second chance” helped Tameshwari
become financially independent.
DIGITAL
INNOVATIONS
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In 2020, Pratham established the PraDigi Creativity Club for children and youth across the age groups of 10-14 and 14-18+
years. The initiative fosters creative skills, empowering them to become adept problem-solvers through innovative
thinking. The aim is to encourage children to explore their interests and use their curiosity and creativity to work on
different ideas and projects. These learnings are exchanged with one another and their projects are presented to
community members as well as subject experts and mentors.

Initially launched in 2015 across 840 villages in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, Creativity Club expanded its
outreach to 20,000 communities by 2022. This growth hinged on a blend of low-touch and high-touch activities,
leveraging social structures using content and technology. Youth involvement and training strengthened community
ownership, while partnerships with organisations enriched learning opportunities.

The program currently offers collaborative experiences in Arts, Science, Music, Sports, and Environment. Employing a
youth-centric, light-touch approach, the initiative has effectively engaged over 20,000 youths and 50,000
children, enhancing their creative aptitude and expanding their skill sets.

In 2022, activities were organised at three levels as part of Creativity Club:

Creativity Mahotsav: A national online competition, 'Creativity Mahotsav' invited
children and youth to participate in Art, Music, Science, and Code Clubs. Working in
groups facilitated by youth, a total of 51,840 children took part actively, leading to an
impressive 17,700 submissions.

Creativity Workshops: One-day workshops on 'Creativity and Creative Learning'

allowed over 18,000 youths to interact, engage in activities, and learn from mentors.
With more than 200 of these creativity workshops organised, topics ranged from
Music, Science, Arts, to Sports.

Creativity Camps: These expert-led residential camps were designed to facilitate

hands-on learning, collaboration, and innovation. More than 1,900 youth and children
benefitted from over 70 residential creativity camps, which provided immersive
experiences across various creative domains.

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YOUTH & SKILLING
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 To bridge the skilling gap in India, Pratham launched its
Vocational Skilling arm in 2005 to train youth from economically
disadvantaged backgrounds and provide them access to
employment opportunities and effective entrepreneurship. The
vocational programs across the country have enabled youth to
access entry-level positions in several sectors, including
automotive, beauty, construction, electrical, hospitality,
healthcare, plumbing and welding.

During 2022-23, Pratham provided training to over 31,000

youths across 17 states. Of these, over 26,500 got placed.
Besides centre-based training, we also expanded our on-the-job
training and community-based training model.

In the previous year (2022), new courses were introduced like Graphic Designing
and Multi-Office Assistant (MOA). In addition, we added a Solar (electrical) course
which trains and equips students in solar panel installation and maintenance skills.

Pratham carried out need assessment surveys and worked with communities in the five
districts Ahmednagar, Bhopal, Dhamtari, Hyderabad and Lucknow. Women's
Livelihood Clubs were set-up in villages through which job-specific training and
entrepreneurship were provided. We are seeing an increased surge of women
enrolling in non-traditional trades such as electrical, plumbing, and
automotive.

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MODES OF DELIVERY
Till Mobilising youth Training in Placement in
Post placement tracking
2020 in community centre industry

LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 Post placement

Since Awareness Foundation Skills Hands-on Skills Placement in
tracking & knowhow
industry or self-
2020 Short virtual courses Theoretical Practical training in employment
to support
courses (virtual) centre or community self-employment

GEOGRAPHICAL Low concentration

REACH of centres

OF PROGRAM High concentration

of centres
Implementation of
Youth Training &
Skilling Initiative

17 2022-23
States Programs Active
Centres

140+
Apparel 3
Auto (2W & 4W) 29
Beauty 15
Centres Construction 3
Electrical 26
Graphic Design 1

20,000 Healthcare
Hospitality
Plumbing
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23
6
Villages Welding 6

Grand Total 144

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Entrepreneurship Program

Pratham's entrepreneurship program aims to empower urban,

rural and tribal entrepreneurs, along with low-income urban
women, focusing on skills, mentorship, and support across
street food, apparel, beauty, and construction industries. The
program provides training on financial record-keeping,
essential business compliance documents, and also gives
support to access financial aid from banks and government
schemes.

In 2022-2023, the entrepreneurship program launched two

additional initiatives, Street Food Vendor and Food Processing,
with 550 potential entrepreneurs participating.

Toolkit Exhibitions

Pratham organised over 4,000 Toolkit Exhibitions in

communities across 14 states to address the information gap
about vocational training. Mobilisers showcased a range of
tools of diverse trades that generated awareness about
different career pathways and the scope of vocational training.

Awareness on Plastic Literacy

Pratham conducted an exploratory study on plastic waste in

2022 across 15 states, 70 districts and 700 villages to
understand the facets of India's plastic pollution in rural areas.
The objective was to create a curriculum to introduce children
to different types of plastic and the problems they can cause,
as well as raise children's participation in solving environmental
issues at the household and village levels from an early age.

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Leading the
Leading the Way
Way
in Equal
in Equal
Opportunity
Opportunity
Skill Building
Skill Building
Women boarding a bus to work is a common sight in cities. But for
Vadgaon, a small village near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, this was a
significant development.

The COVID-19 pandemic had diminished employment opportunities

Vadgaon has 28 electricians
trained at Pratham's
multi-skilling
centre at Khultabad, 22 of
whom are girls.
in the village. Consequently, there was a need to seek newer options
for livelihood generation. Pratham's multi-skilling centre at
Khultabad seemed to be a possible solution. Some girls showed
interest in the electrical skilling course despite people discouraging
them by saying, it's a man's job.
Vadgaon has 28 electricians trained at Pratham's multi-skilling
centre at Khultabad, 22 of whom are girls. Vadgaon is an example of
how small steps can lead to significant change. What began as a
simple walk by a few girls to board the company bus rippled into a
series of incremental changes, culminating in a village of electricians.

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ANNUAL STATUS OF
EDUCATION REPORT
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 The Annual Status of Education Report
(ASER) 2022 was released on January 18,
2023, in New Delhi. This was the 13th
report since 2005 that covers all rural
districts and provides estimates of basic
reading and arithmetic. After a long gap of
four years, ASER 2022 returned to the field
nationwide. It provided vital evidence on
the impact of the pandemic on children’s
enrollment and learning outcomes, both
nationally and for every state in the
country. The report uses simple methods
as before, so we can compare the new
2022 data with older data to see trends.

Overall, enrollment in schools has increased for the 6-14 years age-group, from 97.2% in
Reached
districts
616 ASER 2018 to 98.4% in 2022. There was an increase of 7.3 percentage points in government
school enrollment between 2018 and 2022.

KEY FINDINGS:
19,104 Nationwide, children's basic reading ability has dropped to pre-2012 levels, reversing
villages
earlier progress. This drop is visible in both government and private schools across
states, for both boys and girls. For example, in Grade 3, the percentage of children
374,428 reading at grade level declined from 27.3% (2018) to 20.5% (2022). Similarly, the
percentage of Grade 3 children who can at least do subtraction fell from 28.2% (2018)
household
to 25.9% (2022).
Surveyed
697,647 In 2022, nationally, there has been a decrease in basic arithmetic skills as compared to
children aged
3 to 16 years 2018.

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 INTERNAL
COMMITTEE
Number of complaints received: 1
Number of complaints disposed off: 1
Number of cases pending for more than 90 days: 0
Number of awareness workshops/programs conducted: 90

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