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Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Pakistan
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
Evaluation of USAID programme aimed at improving women’s education. Girls’ enrollments more than tripled in Balochistan and more than doubled in North-West Frontier Province. Boys’ education also benefited. The program ...
Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Malawi
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
Evaluation of USAID GABLE programme. USAID initiatives have helped increase girls’ access to education but this success, combined with implications of a national universal education policy, is burdening an already overloaded syst...
Promoting Education for Girls in Nepal
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1998
Evaluation of USAID programme. Although their impact is difficult to isolate and measure, programs aimed at empowering and educating Nepalese women appear to enhance the education of both girls and boys. Concludes that ...
Improving impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa
P. Bonnard / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999
Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organ...
Understanding linkages among food availability, access, consumption, and nutrition in Africa: empirical findings and issues from the literature
Patrick Diskin / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995
By providing new perspectives on linkages between food availability, access, consumption, and nutrition, this report intends to assist policymakers in understanding the nature and extent of relationships among all variables involved i...
PVO/NGO tools for household and business impact assessment: report of a planning meeting (Edgcomb / AIMS)
microLINKS,, 1999
Child Labour
New Internationalist, 1999
Participatory Project Design: Its Implications for Evaluation. A Case Study from El Salvador
F.P. Coupal / Mosaic.net International, Inc., 1995
Draws lessons from a project designed in El Salvador based on participatory principles and how this can be applied to the field of evaluation. Indeed, evaluations using participatory approaches can be more effective when the project h...
Empowerment Evaluation: Collaboration, Action Research, and a Case Example
D. Fetterman / Action Evaluation Project, ARIA Group, 1996
Empowerment evaluation is an innovative approach to evaluation. It has been adopted in higher education, government, inner-city public education, nonprofit corporations, and foundations throughout the United States and abroad. A wide ...
Infant and Child Feeding Indicators Measurement Guide
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999
This guide is designed to assist Cooperating Sponsors and USAID in monitoring and evaluating maternal and child health (MCH)/child nutrition activities funded under USAID's PL 480 Title II Food Aid program. The goal of these activitie...
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The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A solution to the International Child Labor problem?
International Child Labor Program, USA, 1999
This report is the third volume in ILABs international child labor series. It focuses on the use of child labor in the production of apparel for the U.S. market, and reviews the extent to which U.S. apparel importers have established ...
Stop child labour: ILO/IPEC press kit
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child ...
Child labour: targeting the intolerable
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1998
Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC at a glance ) and other initiatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse ...
Combating the most intolerable forms of child labour: A global challenge: ILO Amsterdam Child Labour Conference
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
Opportunities for women through reproductive choice
Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Women want better lives for themselves, their children, their families, and their communities. They want to do their best in their current roles as mothers, wives, workers, and community members. Many women also want new opportunities...
Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994
Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core m...
The Control of Epidemic Dysentery in Africa: Overview, recommendations, and Checklists
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999
Provides an overview of cholera and dysentery, followed by a brief history of dysentery epidemics in Africa, the current epidemiology, and a few of the lessons learned in other parts of the world, concluding with recommendations. Also...
The Utility of Bloodspot Technologies In Low Income Countries
J. Willumsen / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999
In recent years, blood spot techniques have been developed to provide simple, low cost and accurate ways of screening for a variety of medical problems. Since the 1960's in the developed world, the screening for inborn errors of metab...
The State of World Population 1997: the Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health
United Nations Population Fund, 1999
Gaps and failures in reproductive health care, combined with widespread discrimination and violence against women, amount to a massive violation of human rights. Denial of sexual and reproductive rights–including free choice with...
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Global Unification the Gambia (GU)
Global Unification The Gambia (GU) is a chapter of Global Unification International (GUI) in Australia. It is a youth-led research and development, non-political, non-religious, tax exempted charitable, association established in 2006 at the University of the Gambia. In partnership with relevant institutions, its mission is to provide education, skills and strengthen the capacity of yo...
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children. CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It examines how Government policies affect children and families. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale researc...
Earth Child Institute (ECI)
Earth Child Institute is committed to combating climate change, deforestation and water scarcity. By investing in hands-on environment and educational projects with and for children, both in and out of schools. Its goal is to engage with and support empowerment of the world’s 2.2 billion people under the age of 18 to plant trees, ensure access to safe water, sanitation, clean energy and nutr...
Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya.  It was established to address democratic governance, socio?economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
Countdown to 2015
The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institu...
UNICEF Bangladesh
The UNICEF Bangladesh country office work in partnership with government ministries, non-government organisations, UN agencies and a wide range of donors in order to solve the problems facing children in Bangladesh. Specifically, UNICEF Bangladesh works on: education health and nutrition protection...
Global Health Promotion
Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education. The title was formerly known as Promotion & Education.
BASICS fragile and post-conflict states publications
As part of a multi-donor exercise to deepen the international development community's understanding of health programming in post conflict and fragile environments, BASICS authored a series of papers to distill current thinking and share lessons learned.  This website page provides access to the titles of and links to these papers.
Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
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