- Milk and meat supplements can improve vitamin B12 status in Kenyan school children
- E.D. Reid; C.G. Neumann; J.H. Siekmann; N.O. Bwibo; S.P. Murphy; L.H. Allen / Global Livestock CRSP, 2002
- This paper reports on a two year controlled intervention with animal source foods, initiated in Embu, Kenya, to improve the micronutrient status of 6-9 year old rural Kenyan school children and test if animal source foods improve grow...
- Have governments involved teaching unions in EFA plans?
- U. Fredriksson / Education International, 2003
- In order to find out whether governments have been working according to the agreements made in the Dakar framework, EI developed a questionnaire for teacher's unions to discover whether they had been involved in planning and national ...
- UK and overseas universities: working together to promote development?
- Derek Eldridge; David Mundy; Elisabeth M. Wilson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The UK’s Higher Education Links Scheme (HEL) promotes exchanges (usually for three years) between UK and overseas universities. In line with objectives set out in its 1997 White Paper on the Elimination of World Poverty, the UK i...
- Better livelihoods through literacy or literacy through livelihoods skills?
- John Oxenham; Abdoul Hamid Diallo; Anne Ruhweza Katahoire; Anna Petkova-Mwangi; Oumar Sall / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Does literacy come first and development follow? How much literacy is needed as a pre- requisite to development? Can effective training in livelihood skills be added to large scale literacy programmes? Or is it more effective to add l...
- Identity crisis? Exploring teacher backgrounds and raising educational standards in Ghana
- Kwame Akyeampong; David Stephens / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Do teacher training institutions know enough about the personal backgrounds, expectations and aspirations of their students? What can be done to counter student teacher aversion to working in rural areas? Should training colleges acce...
- Learning in the field: can agriculture help in rural primary education?
- Peter Taylor; Abigail Mulhall / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How can agriculture help improve rural primary schooling in developing countries? Universal access to primary education is a sought-after goal in most developing countries as it offers a wide range of benefits. Yet many countries face...
- Can't pay, won't pay? Factors affecting primary school enrolment in Zambia
- Patrick Watt / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- At the 1990 World Conference on 'Education for All' in Thailand, governments adopted a plan to achieve universal primary education by the year 2000. Zambia pledged to achieve this goal by 2005, but is likely to fail because recurrent ...
- Power to primary education: is there a role for NGOs?
- Patrick Watt / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Primary education is the cornerstone of successful international development. Investing in children's abilities to read, write, and do basic maths is key to an improved quality of life and to poverty alleviation. There are proven link...
- Building blocks. Reconstructing education after a crisis
- David Phillips / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How can external agencies help rebuild education systems in countries that have experienced war, natural disaster, or political and economic upheaval? Depending on the severity of the situation, educational provision will suffer some ...
- Cost-benefit analysis: what practical use can it be to education reform?
- J. R. Hough / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Cost-benefit analysis offers standard yardsticks for assessing value-for-money from development investment. But its use in connection with upgrading education systems in developing countries has attracted controversy. It has much to c...
- The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
- A. Mingat; Jee-Peng Tan / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Argues that, so long as educational coverage is not yet universal, a more efficient strategy for educational development is to emphasize continued expansion of coverage rather than a rapid reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio. In the ...
- Nigeria : Consultations for Improved Primary Education
- E. Nkwanga; S. Canagarajah / Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999
- The World Bank-assisted Nigeria Primary Education Project aims at assisting the Government of Nigeria to improve the quality of the subsector through the supply of instructional materials, upgrading of infrastructural facilities, enha...
- Women in higher education in developing countries (HCD Dissemination Note)
- HNPFLASH, 1999
- Girls and Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa
- HNPFLASH, 1999
- Benefits of education for women (HCD Dissemination Note)
- HNPFLASH, 1993
- The evidence is clear that the total benefits to education multiply when schools open their doors to girls and women. In addition to being more productive in market work, educated women have smaller families, fewer of their children d...
- Gender and public social spending: disaggregating benefit incidence
- L. Demery / Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
- Describes how the gender dimension of public spending on health and education can be captured in part through benefit incidence analysis. It contains two basic messages: gender disaggregations are important in th...
- Education for All: a compact for Africa
- Oxfam, 1999
- Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000. Recommends: the mobilisation through a combination of debt ...
- Illiterate adult earns significantly more in the Bangladeshi nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one literate member
- K. Basu; A. Narayan; M. Ravallion / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- According to theory, a member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in that household. Shared income gains from shared knowledge may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the fa...
- What is the role of language in achieving development objectives?
- British Council, 1998
- Proceedings of a 1998 workshop on the relationship between language acquisition, literacy and poverty alleviation. Reviews the potential impacts of donor investment in this area (including the promotion of English-language teaching). ...
- Education sector strategy
- Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1999
- Outlines the vision for education and the ambitious international goals to which the Bank subscribes. It notes the progress so far and the gaps that remain. It describes the rich group of partners associated with the educational endea...
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- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET)
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET) is an international academic journal which gains a foothold in Singapore, Asia and opens to the world. It aims to promote the integration of information and education technology. The focus is to publish papers on state-of-the-art Information and Education Technology. Submitted papers will be reviewed by technical committees of t...
- Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on the Environment (TSHE)
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- Health and Education Advice and Resource Team (HEART)
- HEART is a consortium of leading organisations in international development, health, nutrition and education. It works together to support the use of evidence and expert advice in policymaking. HEART helps time-pressured decision-makers better understand, interpret and apply health, nutrition and education evidence. It is primarily designed to provide the most relevant evidence to address pa...
- 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.
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is a research institute that produces high quality, topical information on international relations and the EU.
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