Can information campaigns spark local participation

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Be the first. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Tags Add tags for "Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes? All rights reserved. Please sign in to WorldCat Don't have an account? However, a survey of users and stakeholders of the VECs found that:. Large numbers of children in the villages have not yet acquired basic competency in reading, writing and arithmetic. Parents, teachers and VEC members seem not to be fully aware of the scale of the problem and seem not to have given much thought to the role of public agencies in improving education outcomes.

Full text [PDF - KB] - 38 pages Summary What role can local community participation in basic service delivery play in promoting development outcomes? However, a survey of users and stakeholders of the VECs found that: Parents do not know what a VEC is, let alone its roles and responsibilities, sometimes even when they are supposed to be members of it. VEC members are unaware of even key roles they are empowered to play in education services.

For example, only nine percent of headmasters realize that they are responsible for hiring additional teachers at local level to address school overcrowding. These involve bringing local government leaders, head teachers and villagers together in meetings and encouraging them to share information themselves.