Akanksha Foundation is dedicated to delivering high-quality education to children from low-income communities, empowering them to realise their potential. To support the National Education Policy’s vision and drive large-scale change in public education, Akanksha, leveraging its proven strengths, is taking its best practices beyond its own network through Project Setu.
Project Setu, an initiative by the Akanksha Foundation, aims to transform public education in India by extending the organisation's successful educational practices to municipal schools. The program focuses on five key pillars: Leadership & Management, Educator Development, Infrastructure & Resources, Community Engagement, and School Culture & Student Well-being.
These areas encompass initiatives such as data-driven decision-making, teacher training in English and numeracy, resource gap analysis, strengthening parent and School Management Committee (SMC) roles, and promoting student safety and social-emotional learning.
Impact Since Inception:
- Reaching 70,000+ students and 20,000+ educators across 240+ municipal schools.
- 16% rise in foundational literacy & numeracy (2021-2024).
- 32% improvement in English skills (PCMC); 12% (NMC).
- 50 libraries set up with 130,000+ books; 40,000+ learning resources distributed.
Metrics based on partner-reported data. Last updated: April 2026
Key Benefits of the app:
- Efficient documenting, planning and sharing our efforts and stories with all stakeholders.
- Ease of understanding the needs of teachers and headmasters, and effective support strategies
Koita Foundations engagement with The Akanksha Foundation
Tracking the effectiveness of the interventions with the education system was challenging due to an unstructured monitoring system. Team members visited schools only once every two months, yielding inadequate data for measuring progress and planning future visits, which hindered long-term impact assessment.
Koita Foundation collaborated with Akanksha to develop a customized app for field officers, streamlining intervention monitoring and enabling team members to record interactions with teachers and headmasters for a comprehensive view of each school's progress throughout the academic year.