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Haryana Early Literacy Development Impact Bond, achieves outstanding results exceeding targets for Foundational Literacy by 3.5 times and additional 1.6 Equivalent Years of Schooling despite COVID-19 New Delhi (India), November 26: The results released for the Haryana Early Literacy Development Impact Bond (DIB): A Pay-for-Success model show significantly improved learning outcomes in 164,000 children of 3,300 primary classes in government schools, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of the three-year project (2019-22), children in intervention schools could fluently read at 42.4 words per minute (which meets the Global Minimum Proficiency standards), while children in non-intervention schools could read only…
