Our Impact - OpenLinks Foundation

SIMPLIFY, SAVE TIME

Support & Capacity Building

REDUCE MUNDANE
Data Collection Task

SAVING per DISTRICT

280,000 hrs for Teacher (16 hrs/Month)

200,000 hrs for Cluster Head (66 hrs/Month)

After Analysis

Forms reduced 21 to 9
Frequency reduced 184 to 56
Fields reduced 401 to 210

REDUCE MUNDANE
Info Searching Task

SAVING per DISTRICT

320,000 hrs for Teacher (10 hrs/Month)

36,000 hrs for Cluster Head (10 hrs/Month)

Analysis

Circulars accessed twice or more – 25%
Circulars asking for data – 4 times
TLM | Training resources - 6 times

16%
savings
on teacher
time
48%
savings on
cluster head
time

SUPPORT & CAPACITY BUILDING

Before Vinoba

Circulars etc .. circulated on Paper/ whatsapp. Is expensive and gets lost in delays

After Vinoba

Information is always easily available on phone – properly catalogued

District circulars, letters, announcements
Weekly Plans with notifications to help pace
TLMs for FLN, Scholarship, Financial Literacy

Capacity Building

FOUNDATIONAL LITERACY & NUMERACY (FLN) - Pune

Academic Program

निपुण भारत गुणवत्ता / क्षमता वृद्धि कार्यक्रम

10 Week program to improve FLN Skills in students of class 2-5

– Launched in Pune district in Dec'22.

8% ZP school pupils improve Language, Maths skills

Context

Program by Government to enhance skill level of students in Language and Maths

Education department provided plans to schools for 8 weeks to improve the skill level

Problem

Struggle to collect reliable data from schools in a timely manner

No way to track whether Teachers are able to easily access the weekly plans

OLF’s Solution

Collect Base line data of student skill directly from teachers

Digitally provide weekly plans to teachers to help them plan their teaching routines

Monitor progress on the skill improvement by gathering periodic feedback and re-evaluate the skill level at the end of the 8-week program

11,000+ Teachers involved in improving student learning outcome.
12,000+ (8%) Students showed improvement in skill levels out of 147,000 students.

Mission Scholarship

Academic Program

7 month program to identify promising students and prepare them.

Evangelize

Create awareness
and Excitement in Teachers

Guide

Support them
to succeed

Motivate

Recognize consistent
effort & good performance

Establishing Library

Program Implementation & monitoring

80% of the ZP schools need Library Facility

Information helped to plan Creation of Library spaces in 342 schools
Tracking use of books and effectiveness of Library
Teacher Recognition for use of Library

पुस्तक वाटप

Program Implementation & Monitoring

Helps Utilization of unused books

Each ZP school receives curriculum books – based on the number of students.
However, in the new academic year – the number of students change in the class. Some schools may end up having extra books and there is shortfall for some.

Program Monitoring & Evaluation

Require data collection e.g. FLN, Book Distribution, Library etc.

Before

Clunky and inefficient data collection process via paper, excel sheets, google forms
Significant time spent to just aggregate data for analysis
Leakage in the data collection process, leading to possible manipulation of data

After

In-built data collection tools on the Vinoba mobile app, Authenticated data sources.
No Time spent on data aggregation. 100% automated process
Monitor progress on the programs and take remedial actions

Save upto 5 lac hours per district for teachers and cluster heads

Stories of Change

"Because of Vinoba – we have some qualitative results in mass education"
Ayush Prasad, I.A.S, CEO Zilla Parishad
"Easy to use. Very useful for teachers."
Manisha Malusare, Teacher
"We have to adopt it. This is the future"
Ashwini Sonawane, Block Education Officer
"Only EdTech project with large scale teacher adoption"
Mayuresh Bhoyte, Leadership for Equity