- 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 ...
- 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...
- Adaptive learning: management of small waterbodies in Southern Lao
- Marine Resources Assessment Group, 2002
- These guidelines share the experiences of applying an ‘adaptive learning’ approach to the management of small waterbodies in Southern Lao PDR. Adaptive learning is a management approach that explicitly recognises that...
- Film, book or play? Community-based HIV prevention in rural Uganda
- K. Mitchell; S. Nakamanya; A. Kamali; J. Whitworth / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- Behavioural change interventions still offer the best chance of preventing the spread of HIV in developing countries. But which methods are most effective? Researchers at the MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda assess four HIV education s...
- Costing teacher education in Ghana: micro realities and macro contexts
- Dominic Furlong / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Rapid school enrolment expansion in many developing countries, and subsequent concerns over worsening educational quality, has prompted renewed interest in teacher education. But despite its central role in every educational system ac...
- Knowledge is power: AIDS education for Ugandan schoolchildren
- J. Kinsman; J. Whitworth / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is the best wa...
- Mixed messages
- Mirembe / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Can education spearhead the fight against HIV/AIDS? In Uganda the government uses the national curriculum to promote sexual health in schools. Yet if school culture reinforces gender inequality - a fundamental cause of HIV spread - wi...
- Out of the college, into the classroom: the experience of newly-trained teachers
- Jeanette Morris; Arthur Joseph / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In any education system, the transition from teaching college to classroom can be a shock. What support do new teachers get? How are they ‘socialised’ into the institutional set- up of the school? What use do they make of th...
- Counting the cost of Free Primary Education in Malawi
- Esme Kadzamira; Pauline Rose / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Primary education is a priority amongst governments and international agencies, mainly due to its perceived role in reducing poverty. What happens when Free Primary Education (FPE) is put into practice?
- 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...
- 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...
- Investing in Adult Literacy: Lessons and Implications
- T. Eisemon; M. Crawford; K. Marble / Literacy.org, 1998
- Discusses the evolution of the World Bank’s involvement in adult literacy and nonformal education. Current literacy projects supported by the World Bank include a wide range of literacy providers, not just government adult educat...
- Adult Literacy in Developing Countries: A Contemporary Annotated Bibliography
- L.D. Puchner / Literacy.org, 1998
- Bibliography is intended to provide a list of selected works on the topic of adult literacy in developing countries. The list spans the perspectives of theory, research, practice, and policy, and covers selections from diverse regions...
- Indigenous schools and literacy in Africa and the Middle East
- D.A. Wagner / Literacy.org, 1998
- Dramatic world economic changes have led many developing countries to reassess their varied educational programs as well as the costs and benefits that pertain to them. Some specialists have focused their attention on the relationship...
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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.
- London School of Economics (LSE)
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a social science universities.
- ephemera
- ephemera is an independent journal, supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
