Alif Ailaan ( ur, ) was a nonprofit organization working in the field of

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from 2013 to 2018. Launched by a team of media and communications specialists, the program aimed to highlight education on priority basis in Pakistan and make the masses aware of the importance of education. It ran campaigns in print, on radio and television, and on social media for awareness of the masses about education. The program conducts seminars and surveys and publishes the highly cited district education rankings report. It also monitored the performance of parliamentarians in reforming education in their

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. Working in the four provinces of Pakistan as well as

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, Gilgit-Baltistan and the formerly

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, Alif Ailaan identified the weak spots in education through research and aimed to assist decision makers in creating and implementing better education policies.

Contributions

Alif Ailaan addressed the educational crisis in

and suggested measures to reform the education landscape. Through their research and data compilation, they assisted decision makers to come up with. Funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, the organization also provided grant support to civil society organisations working for educational reforms and fund research on issues related to education in Pakistan.

District Education Rankings

Alif Ailaan also released annual District Education Rankings for all districts of Pakistan on the basis of its research. The research examined the state of education in the country's 148 districts and agencies and identified the weak spots in education. According to District Education Rankings 2013, the

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

was on the top while Baluchistan falls in the bottom. No districts of the Sindh could find a place among top 50. The 2014 District Education Rankings of 146 districts of Pakistan show that

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was the best performing region in terms of overall standards of education, followed by districts of

and

(AJK). The 2015 District Education Ranking shows poor performance of Sindh while the performance of

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for improving its enrollment, retention and gender parity indicators was lauded. Rawalpindi district was on top of the ranking.

Performance of parliamentarians in education sector

Alif Ailaan also gauged the performance of every Member of the National Assembly on the basis of educational performance in their respective

. They were assessed against four indicators for education – gender parity, physical facilities, student–teacher ratio and retention.

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External links

* http://www.alifailaan.pk Educational organisations based in Pakistan 2013 establishments in Pakistan 2018 disestablishments in Pakistan

Contributions

District Education Rankings

Performance of parliamentarians in education sector

See also

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