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Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre is a partner in RECOUP (Research Consortium on the Outcomes of Education and Poverty) - a research consortium of seven institutions from UK and four developing countries - Kenya, Ghana, India and Pakistan - coordinated by the University of Cambridge.For more information on RECOUP visit http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/
MHHDC’s research activities under RECOUP explore the impact of education on the lives and livelihoods of young people, particularly those living in poorer communities and from poorer households in Punjab and NWFP. Its purpose is to identify pathways through which education influences the lives of the young people and to generate new knowledge that will improve education and poverty reduction strategies in the country, through an enhanced recognition of education's actual and potential role on the social and economic lives of people.
The project has been envisioned with an inter-disiplinary and mixed methods research design- bringing together insights from an extensive and detailed quantiative survey and indepth narratives and ‘voices’ from qualitative studies. Since the inception of the project in 2005, the researh activities carried out in two provinces (Punjab and NWFP) include:
- A quantitative survey covering more than 1,000 households from 6 districts in Punjab and 3 districts in NWFP
In keeping with the mixed methods research design, the preliminary results of the quantitative survey have been used to inform and develop the instruments and sample selection of the qualitative studies – set in one district in each province (Sargodha in Punjab and Charsadda in NWFP). The studies include:
- Health and fertility study
- Skill acquisition and its impact upon lives and livelihoods
- Public private partnerships in the provision of education
- Aid partnerships and educational outcomes
- Disability and poverty study
- Youth, Gender and Citizenship study
The findings on of the project builds on existing research in certain aspects of social and economics outcomes – such as health and fertility, public private schooling decisions, labour market returns – by disentangling the potential and actual impact of education on decision making and life and livelihood outcomes at the individual and household levels. In other sectors – such as skill acquisition, disability and citizenship studies – the research contributes by creating new knowledge through relying on the voices of the youth and their families in poor communities across the two provinces.
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