Punjab, Pakistan: A Case Study for Using a Systems Approach for Identifying Constraints to Education Service Delivery

Education systems across the world aim to provide a universal and quality education that can improve the socio-economic outcomes of citizens. This is a challenging goal and commitment that many developing countries are struggling to achieve. According to the 2014 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, 250 million children are unable to read, write, or do basic mathematics. Nearly 130 million of those children are in school, which suggests that children in school are not learning. Policymakers across the developing world are looking for solutions to address this ‘learning crisis’, but the academic and practitioner community is becoming increasingly conscious of the fact that the answer to this question is far from straightforward.