The Pakistan Reading Project
The Pakistan Reading Project (PRP), a seven-year project designed to bolster literacy levels in primary schools throughout Pakistan, had a reach of 1.7 million students and over 27,000 teachers. How did this expansive project, which was not meeting its outcome goals, make a turnaround in its third year of implementation to ultimately become a highly recognized program at scale? This case study explores how the PRP was able to make a shift to (1) identify and track data linked to the theory of change (TOC), (2) create a data review process for quality improvement decision making, and (3) build capacity among stakeholders to review data so that they could make course corrections and program implementation decisions.