This study attempts to understand the effectiveness of education governance, specifically the monitoring function, through the perspectives of frontline officials in India. It locates institutions within social and political structures marked by deep inequalities and analyses the manner in which these institutional arrangements influence the behaviour of frontline officials.

Learn and compare about the the effectiveness (and cost-effectiveness, where cost is available) of interventions from 150 impact evaluations across 46 countries.

Deep-dive into structured experiential learning which allows implementing agencies to actively and rigorously search across alternative project designs using the monitoring data that provides real-time performance information with direct feedback into the decision loops of project design and implementation

The paper argues that introducing greater accounting-based accountability will only very rarely be the appropriate solution for addressing accountability problems.