Siddesh Sarma

Leadership For Equity

Leadership For Equity is an education non-profit that works in deep partnership with government bodies rather than directly with schools, acting as an advisory and implementation organisation for systemic reform. Started in 2017 with a focus on Pune city in partnership with MSCERT and since scaled to several states, it strengthens educational governance through policy advisory and data-based decision making, coaches government officers who lead programme implementation, and improves in-service teacher learning through lesson plans and teaching-learning material.

Leadership For Equity reports the following, on its own site:

• 8.8M+ students collectively reached
• 2.2 Lac+ teachers influenced through work with system leaders
• 10,500+ academic leaders impacted
• Actively working in 5 states and 12 districts/cities