Madhi Foundation
Basic Information
Overview
Madhi Foundation (founded 2016, Chennai) is Tamil Nadu's chief management partner for the Ennum Ezhuthum foundational learning mission — a ₹500 crore state FLN program spanning ~37,000 government schools. Madhi uses a government-embedded model: curriculum design, teacher training, school leadership, and M&E. It does not deliver instruction directly to students. Team of 200+ staff across 38 districts in Tamil Nadu. Programs include Ennum Ezhuthum (FLN G1–3), Thiran Iyakkam (middle school), Anganwadi (early childhood), Palli Parvai (school leadership), and the FLIP pilot. Unlike direct-delivery providers, Madhi embeds within government systems — a policy-scale partner, not a classroom-level intervention.
Intervention type
Founded
Headquarters
Website
Evidence base
Pre-post (no control): +7.2pp Grade 3 literacy, +15.2pp numeracy (ASER 2024) · Tamil Nadu government primary schools — Ennum Ezhuthum FLN mission
Current & Planned Impact
Current scale
2,103,662+
2,103,662 learners across 37,834 schools; 64,934 teachers trained
Planned scale
Scale Meghalaya & Nagaland pilots to full state implementation
National goal: 30M children by 2030
Learning gains
+18pp
Grade 3 letter ID fluency (EI independent assessment, Sept 2023 → Dec 2024); ASER 2024 Grade 3 literacy 4.8% → 12%
Educational Initiatives (61,500 → 61,000 students) · ASER 2024 · Pre-post, no control group
Cost / learner / yr
Not published
No cost per learner is published, by design rather than as a data gap: Madhi reaches learners indirectly through government systems rather than through direct delivery.
Caveat: Madhi works indirectly through Tamil Nadu government systems. Gains are pre-post, system-wide percentage-point changes with no control group, not isolated effect sizes, and no SD figure is published — so they are not directly comparable to RCT or quasi-experimental providers. No cost per learner is published by design rather than as a data gap, because Madhi reaches learners indirectly through government systems rather than through direct delivery. Reach: 2,103,662 learners, 37,834 schools, 64,934 teachers trained; 200+ staff across 38 districts. Other programs include FLIP National (Meghalaya, Nagaland, Andhra Pradesh), CEFL, Enjoy English, VALLAMAI (AI teacher-support app), DAEL, and Anganwadi strengthening.
Evidence & Learning Gains
Educational Initiatives (EI) independent assessment
Baseline Sept 2023 (61,500 students) → Midline Dec 2024 (61,000 students) — the largest assessment of its kind in India at this scale
- •Grade 3 Oral Reading Fluency +15pp
- •Letter ID Fluency +18pp
- •Word ID Fluency +17pp
- •Multi-digit Addition +11pp
- •Number Recognition +9pp
Tamil Nadu Government Evaluation Wing
Dec 2024 → March 2026 · Directional only
- •Grade 3 reading a level-3 text: 8% → 26%
- •2-digit subtraction with carryover: 47% → 76%
ASER 2024 (national)
Annual Status of Education Report
- •Grade 3 literacy 4.8% → 12%
- •Grade 3 numeracy 10.4% → 25.6%
Caveat: These are all pre-post, system-wide percentage-point changes with no control group, so they reflect statewide progress rather than an isolated, provider-attributed effect size the way EGRA/EGMA-based providers show gains elsewhere on this dashboard.