Uganda and Education
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- The BLDS education collection
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Search for the latest education-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Flexible approach to education for nomadic and pastoralist children is needed
- Oxfam, 2005
- This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children of nomadic and pastoralist households who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education. Some of the key is...
- The objectives, methodologies and results of a study on the abject poverty of Ugandan children
- W. McNevin / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005
- This study on children in abject poverty in Uganda was undertaken to identify the problems hidden by the fact that the children in poverty are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that ar...
- The role of peace education in refugee communities
- Marc Sommers / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Education programmes can incorporate the skills, understanding and attitudes needed for peace and conflict prevention. But can peace education be justified when agencies are already stretched to provide basic education and needs? Is i...
- Progress toward meeting Universal Primary Education
- A. Wils; B. Carrol; K. Barrow / Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005
- This study employs multiple sources of data and innovative analytic tools to project when 70 poor countries, given current and historical trends, are likely to achieve the goal of universal primary education. It identifies countries w...
- Meeting the educational needs of nomadic peoples in East Africa: challenges and opportunities
- R. Carr-Hill; E. Peart / International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2005
- In the context of a renewed committment to Education For All (EFA) at Dakar, this study examines the apparent failure of most attempts to provide educational services to nomadic groups. The study focuses on Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia...
- Access to education for children affected by HIV and AIDS: the roleof government in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa
- J. Cohen; H. Epstein; J. Amon / Human Rights Watch, 2005
- This report examines the issues surrounding access to education for children affected by HIV and AIDS, looking in particular at the role of government. It is based on detailed interviews with children affected by HIV/AIDS and their ca...
- Service delivery by donors can help prevent conflict - or make it worse
- T. Vaux; E. Visman / Department for International Development, UK, 2005
- This report, published by the Department for International Development (DFID), examines service delivery in countries emerging from conflict, asking what types of service delivery systems are appropriate, sustainable, and can help to ...
- Strategic planning and monitoring is essential for service delivery in difficult environments
- C. Carlson; J.P. de Lamalle; S. Fustukian; K. Newell-Jones / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2005
- This report, published by the Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC), summarises the findings of research into how service delivery interventions can be improved in difficult environments. Evidence was obtained from case studies on Afg...
- Achieving education in conflict situations in Uganda
- Women's Refugee Commission, 2005
- This paper looks at the education situation in the north of Uganda, a region which has been and is currently in a situation of violent conflict. Interviews were conducted with NGOs, youth groups, teachers and heads of schools, local g...
- Abstinence only programmes put young Ugandans at high risk of HIV
- Human Rights Watch, 2005
- This Human Rights Watch report finds that United States (U.S.) funded organisations are scaling up programmes in Uganda that promote sexual abstinence and fidelity within heterosexual marriage to the exclusion of all other HIV prevent...
- Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda (MISR)
- MISR is an autonomous institute of Makerere University. It conducts and coordinates basic and applied research on social development. The Institute also provides consultancy services to private, public and NGO sectors; undertakes networking with related institutions globally; develops and maintains a regional data bank and disseminates information. Key research areas include: governance a...
- Uganda Martyrs University (UMU)
- Teaching and research university with specialisms including development studies and business administration
