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Organization Details

What is your organization's name?

Angat Kabataan San Pedro

What is your organization's classification?

Nonprofit

In what city, town, or region is your organization headquartered?

San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines

Provide your organization’s mission and/or vision statement and list its core values.

ANGAT KABATAAN SAN PEDRO is a youth-led, non-profit, volunteer organization from in San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines that aims to empower the youth through volunteerism and leadership. We strive to be a a platform for the youth of San Pedro be instruments of change and make an impact to our community.

How many products or programs does your organization operate? Please use numeric values only.

4 Programs

What stage of development is your organization’s product or program that is the focus of your LEAP Project?

Prototype: An organization building and testing its product or program, but which is not yet serving anyone.

Team Lead Details

Solution Details

One-line solution summary: In 20 words or less, summarize your organization's product or program that is the focus of your LEAP Project.

A community learning hub that would help children ages 5-12 develop and enhance their reading and numeracy skills.

Define the problem that your solution seeks to solve. [200-500 words recommended]

There is a learning crisis in the Philippines. In a study conducted by the World Bank in 2019, only 10% of Filipino children age 10 can understand a simple sentence. This has worsened post-pandemic, with in-person classes being stopped for almost 2 years. During the recent school year, many children, particularly in elementary school, struggle to catch-up in their lessons because of their low level of reading ability. This problem even manifests even in the higher year levels, where many High School students still struggle to read texts competently.

Describe your solution and how it works in simple terms. [200-500 words recommended]

To help solve this crisis, our organization is planning to establish a community learning hub in our city. This hub would be focused in providing literacy and numeracy modules for children who are non-readers and frustrated readers. We would be partnering with a local elementary school (San Vicente Elementary School) for our pilot run, and establish the hub near the area.

Partner organizations would also include Angat Pinas Inc., one of the pioneers for Community Learning Hubs in the Philippines. In order for the program to be sustainable, we are currently in talks with our city government city government to provide support and possibly lobby an ordinance that would institutionalize this program throughout our city.

Target beneficiaries of our pilot run would be Grades 1-3 students of San Vicente Elementary School who are designated as non-readers and frustrated readers according to a test formulated by the Department of Education. Our measure of success would be to get at least 90% of students per cohort to be designated as readers.

The module for the program is currently in development with the help of our volunteers and partner teachers and organizations.

Select the key characteristics of your target population. Select all that apply.

Women & Girls
LGBTQ+
Primary school children (ages 5-12)
Peri-Urban
Poor
Low-Income

In which country or countries does your solution currently operate?

Philippines

Upload your solution's Theory of Change or Logic Model.

62650_Resources_2017_version_09.pdf - 33 KB

Where would you place your solution on Nesta's Standards of Evidence?

Level 1: You can describe what you do and why it matters, logically, coherently and convincingly.

To date, what research/studies has your organization conducted that have helped demonstrate the effectiveness of your solution? [200-500 words recommended]

The effectiveness of this solution is demonstrated by the perfmance of Community Learning Hubs by Angat Pinas Inc and other Organizations in the Philippines. The hubs have demonstrated that the Community Learning Hub model is an affective way to create measurable and sustainable improvements in the literacy, numeracy, and educational performance of their target beneficiaries.

What has the research/studies you have conducted revealed about your solution and how did it inform your work moving forward? [200-500 words recommended]

We have not conducted research but we have conducted a pilot tutoring program for Grades 1-3 students. This program is a reading tutoring activity held after class, and is conducted by volunteers. Problems that have manifested in this program include the lack of reading material, venue availability and volunteer scheduling. The school, being a public elementary school, lacks in reading materials for our tutors, the venue is also a limiting factor because of the heat and the lack of dedicated space for reading tutoring, venue scheduling is also limited to school operating hours which excludes weekends. Our volunteers are mostly available during weekends. Thus, a dedicated community learning hub is the solution recommended upon the assessment of the project.

LEAP Project Details

Describe your organization's need to strengthen the evidence base of your solution. [200-500 words recommended]

Although the modules for the program are currently in development, it is based on the best practices of our partner organization, Angat Pinas Inc. Engaging in a LEAP Project is the best way for us to strengthen the evidence base for the effectiveness of the modules and make our own innovations in the program that would help not just our own beneficiaries, but all the beneficiaries by other organizations in the Philippines.

What are 2-3 research questions that you would like your LEAP Project to help you answer? [100 words recommended]

1. What are the best methods to instruct children on how to read effectively.

2. Can classroom style instruction and group instruction be as effective, or nearly as effective that of 1-on-1 instruction (in order for us to make an impact to a larger number of students in a given timeframe)

3. How can we best measure the children's progress over time.

What type of research/studies do you think will help answer your stated questions? Select all that apply.

Foundational research (literature reviews, desktop research)
Formative research (e.g. usability studies; feasibility studies; case studies; user interviews; implementation studies; pre-post or multi-measure research; correlational studies)
Summative research (e.g. correlational studies; quasi-experimental studies; randomized control studies)

Please elaborate on your selection above by describing your desired outputs of the 12-week LEAP Project sprint. [200 - 500 words recommended]

Create a module and a program plan that would effectively increase the reading skills of Filipino children ages 5-12

How will your organization put these outputs into action? [200-500 words recommended]

It will be implemented by running the pilot program of our community learning hub

Describe your desired short-term and long-term outcomes of the 12-week LEAP Project sprint for both your organization and solution. [200-500 words recommended]

Short-term: Decrease the number of non-readers (currently 200) in San Vicente Elementary School and provide evidence-based reports of it's effectiveness.

Long-term: Institutionalize the community learning hub through lobbying a local ordinance in order for the program to be sustainable, and if possible, replicate the program to other areas.