Promoting Rights in Schools: Providing Quality Public Education

From ActionAid International and the Right to Education Project, this resource pack from the Promoting Rights in Schools (PRS) initiative offers a set of practical tools that can be used to actively engage parents, children, teachers, unions, communities, and local civil society organisations in collectively monitoring and improving the quality of public education.

PRS builds on education and human rights frameworks to describe an ideal school that offers quality education. Its methodology supports links between programme work at the school level and advocacy and policy efforts in national and international forums. Within this framework, the process is as important as the outcome: engaging all stakeholders in developing the charter, collecting and analysing the data, and debating the findings are key to generating awareness of what needs to change and how.

The PRS resource pack offers:

1. a charter of 10 rights which, when fulfilled, will enable all children to complete a good quality education;
2. a participatory methodology for: using the charter; collecting, analysing and using data; and consolidating information into "citizens' reports" that could be used for the development of action plans or to encourage discussions and reviews at local, district, and national levels;
3. a series of education- and rights-based indicators organised in a survey format to enable users to capture information in a systematic manner; and
4. a compilation of key international human rights references providing the foundations and legitimacy of the charter and reports.

The documentation is also available on the ActionAid International website.

Click here for the 60-page resource in PDF format (English).

Click here for the 60-page resource in PDF format (French).

Click here for the 60-page resource in PDF format (Portuguese).

Click here for the 60-page resource in PDF format (Spanish).