- Deadly silence: barriers to communicating HIV/AIDS in schools
- Tania Boler; Amina Ibrahim; Ranjin Adoss; Margaret Shaw / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- An estimated 11.8 million 15 to 24-year-olds are living with HIV worldwide. Schools are the obvious place to teach young people about the risks of infection. But what is the best way to do this? Research by ActionAid identifies a numb...
- Jamaican boys behaving badly: changing schools to change male behaviour
- Tony Sewell / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Jamaica has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, mostly committed by young men. Their socialisation begins at home but continues in a society that holds strong stereotypes about male behaviour; homosexuality, for example, i...
- Talking in class: do children’s contributions count?
- Padma M. Sarangapani / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The talk in classrooms between teachers and children is important because it defines what knowledge will become a part of ‘school- related knowledge’ and whose voices will be allowed to shape this. But the value is in more t...
- Pushing the "problems" underground? Left behind learners in South Africa
- Kimberley Porteus / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- According to the first post-apartheid national Census in 1996, 8.5% of South African children between the ages of 7 and 15 were not in school while approximately 16% of learners in Grades 1 to 7 were out of age (in school but older th...
- Working class: the impact of work on Tanzania’s students
- Roger Garrett; Hillary Dachi / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Working children are common in developing countries. The cluster of young street vendors seen at traffic lights belies the largely invisible mass of working children. They are at home cleaning, cooking and caring and provide the house...
- What to do when education for all is denied
- Katarina Tomasevski / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- On 26 June 2003, the highest court in the State of New York decided that children are entitled to meaningful high school education and ordered the state authorities to alter inadequate and discriminatory funding for public education. ...
- Class struggles: the challenges of achieving schooling for all
- Ramya Subrahmanian / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The challenges of achieving Education for All (EFA) remain beyond the grasp of many countries, particularly the poorest. Inequalities continue to mar access to education. However, progress has been made over the last decade. In April ...
- Class control: the school governance challenge in South Africa
- Crain Soudien / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The South African education system in 2000 consisted of 26789 public and 971 independent (mainly low-fee charging) schools accommodating almost 12 million pupils. Given its size and the diverse population it caters for, it is an extre...
- One size fits all? Approaches to inclusive education
- Yusuf Sayed / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The concepts of social inclusion and exclusion are used in many debates around injustice and inequality. These concepts have found their way into mainstream discussions of education policy through the influence and experience of disab...
- Impact of reproductive health focussed literacy projects on adolescent girls in Nepal
- Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003
- This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training. The project is entitled 'Lalima' and this paper assesses it&#...
- A practical guide to expanding remote electrification opportunities
- A.C. Jimenez; T. Lawand / US Agency for International Development, 2000
- Guide aimed at helping decision-makers in rural areas with the responsibility for schools to accurately assess a school's energy need, evaluate appropriate and cost effective technologies to meet those needs, and to implement an effec...
- How can intersectoral partnerships of government, business and civil society stregthen national education systems?
- K. Tietjen / US Agency for International Development, 2000
- The study provides an overview of how and to what extent the religious, business and media sectors have supported girls' education in developing countries in order to understand their role in and potential for supporting girls' educat...
- Formal education programmes oppose nomadic pastoralist culture
- S. Krätli / Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001
- This literature review explores issues relating to education provision to nomadic pastoralists. Pastoralists are often considered to be educational 'failures' (in terms of enrolment, attendance, classroom performance etc). Despite thi...
- Why has inequality risen whist redistribution has increased in OECD countries?
- G. Rehme / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- This article explores the ambiguous finding that in OECD countries inequality has risen, whilst redistribution has similarly increased. Why is this? The theory used in this paper suggests that this is something to do with the r...
- Determinants of income inequality and its effects on economic growth: evidence from African countries
- M.O. Odedokun; J.I. Round / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- This paper investigates within an African context, the determinants of income distribution and inequality; the effects of inequality on economic growth, and the channels through which inequality affects growth. The article find...
- Negotiationg power and government expenditure on primary education
- T. Addison; A. Rahman / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- Why do such inequalities in public spending prevail? Why is public spending being skewed away from the primary education sector? Concludes that: the wealth of the affluent enables them to buy favorable policies f...
- What gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mongolia?
- B. Robinson; A. Solongo / School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham, 2000
- This article asks two questions in relation to the abrupt political and economic transitions in Mongolia: Firstly, why does gender matter in economics? Secondly, what gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mon...
- The first distance learning project for non-formal education in Mongolia: experiences and achievements
- B. Robinson / School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham, 1999
- The use of open and distance learning for non-formal education is much less represented in the literature than for formal education. This paper provides a case study, grounded in practice, of the first open and distance learning proje...
- Community and individual-level attitudes towards livestock-keeping greatly impact the outcome of restocking projects
- C. Heffernan; F. Miturelli; L. Nielsen / Livestock Development Studies Group, 2001
- This article investigates the development of decision support tools for pastoral restocking projects. The study focuses on how community and individual-level attitudes and values regarding livestock-keeping influenced the outcome of r...
- Implementing the 20/20 initiative
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1997
- During the first half of the 1990s, goals and targets for infant mortality, child malnutrition, adult literacy and other social indicators were set at landmark world summits and global conferences. The report by the Development Assist...
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- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET)
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- UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE)
- UNESCO-IHE is an international institute for water education.
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- Centre for International Education, University of Sussex (CIE)
- The Centre for International Education (CIE) provides a focal point for work on education and development in low-income countries.
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