Request for Proposals for the Evaluation of Educate Girls’ Five-Year Scale-Up in India

IDinsight seeks an evaluator to conduct an impact evaluation and collect verification data on the five-year scale-up of Educate Girls’ program in India. Educate Girls was selected as a 2019 Audacious Project recipient to scale from the current 13,000 villages to approximately 35,000 villages. The evaluator will assess whether Educate Girls successfully delivers on the ambitious enrollment, retention, and learning targets set by the Audacious Project. The evidence from this evaluation is critical to track progress, inform course correction, and maximize the effectiveness of this scale-up.

We seek an evaluator to conduct the following activities:

1.       An impact evaluation to estimate the causal effect of Educate Girls’ scale-up on learning outcomes in a representative sample of villages that receive the primary learning program.

2.       Verification data collection to validate Educate Girls’ monitoring data on enrollment and retention in a representative sample of all program villages.

3.       Verification data collection to validate Educate Girls’ monitoring data on implementation activities in a representative sample of villages that receive life skills education.

4.       Verification data collection to validate the submission of school improvement plans in a representative sample of villages that are included in the school governance and infrastructure improvement programming.

Educate Girls is a Mumbai-based non-profit that helps to enroll out-of-school girls and delivers a remedial tutoring curriculum through community-based volunteers. In tens of thousands of the poorest and most remote villages in India, volunteers and Educate Girls staff support the educational outcomes of out-of-school girls and children in school through counselling, community mobilization, tutoring, and life skills education.

To learn more, read the full Request for Proposals.