- Education for survival: better health and HIV/AIDS education for schools in Africa and Asia
- Korrie de Koning / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Since the late 1980s, interest has grown in the development of health education in schools. This interest has been spurred on by the AIDS pandemic. Health education, which focuses on trying to influence sexual behaviour and attitudes,...
- Adult literacy students write their own textbooks. Actionaid's REFLECT programme
- David Archer / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Imagine an adult literacy class in which the students write their own 'primer'. The idea is not strange to participants in the Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques (REFLECT) adult literacy programme. D...
- Uncertainly to school: poverty and household decision-making about primary education in India
- R. Subrahmanian / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Policymakers claim that the benefits households gain from educating their children to primary level are great. But if so, why do so many poor Indian households not take advantage of state schooling? When children from poor households ...
- 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?
- 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...
- A Manual on School Sanitation and Hygiene
- IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2000
- Manual on school sanitation and hygiene eduation (SSH) deals with aspects needed to bring about changes in hygiene behaviour of students and, through these students, in the community at large. Manual aimed at: th...
- Africa reviews African eduction programmes
- Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 1999
- Review of 25 countries to identify solutions, policies, approaches and practices that can be applied to constraints facing education in Africa. Identifies a number of trends and lessons: Programmes were more succ...
- Gender issues and their broad economic and social implications in developing and transitional countries
- Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies. ...
- Update of Barro-Lee dataset
- Robert J. Barro; Jong-Wha Lee / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
- Presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. The authors' previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provid...
- School participation in rural India
- J. Drèze; G.G. Kingdon / Programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy, LSE, 1999
- Looks at the determinants of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation, especially among girls, responds to...
- African Journals Online (AJOL)
- International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999
- The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in...
- Social exclusion and Africa south of the Sahara: A review of the literature
- C. Gore / International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1994
- Review for sub-Saharan Africa, examines the English-language literature and focuses on four important dimensions of exclusion: (i) exclusion from agricultural land; (ii) exclusion from agricultural livelihood; (iii) exclusion from for...
- IGI Global
- IGI Global is an international academic publisher of more than 2,000+ reference books, 150+ journals, encyclopedias, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases covering the utilisation and management of information science and technology, as it is applied to the areas of: education, social science, library science, healthcare, business, public administration, computer science, and engineering....
- 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.
