Lectures in International Development is a policy oriented series that invites leading practitioners and scholars to present practical and theoretical issues in education policy with a focus on the marginal population around the world.
Date: Wednesday, September 29th, 2010.
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Location: Russell Hall 305, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Title: Is Pratham a Global Model?
Speaker: Dr Madhav Chavan
Founder Pratham (www.pratham.org)
Speaker: Dr. Madhav Chavan, Founder-Pratham India Education Initiative.
Speaker Bio:
Madhav is addressing a major problem in India’s education system through his “capital-light” the Read India Program. By tapping into unutilized resources in terms of infrastructure, staff, and community involvement, his approach keeps start-up and on-going costs at a minimum, offering even the poorest communities the opportunity to educate their children.
Madhav’s organization, the Pratham India Education Initiative (www.pratham.org), holds people as its main asset by developing a systematic and rigorous training and monitoring process. The result is a network of effective teacher-entrepreneurs who can replicate the Pratham Initiative in other cities. The low-cost strategy serves millions of children all across India. Pratham is now leveraging its critical asset, a low-cost distribution channel, to provide a variety of other useful services at little incremental cost.
