- Ensuring that Education for All also becomes a reality in conflict-affected fragile states
- J. Dolan / Child Rights Information Network, 2008
- This report highlights how donors can help children in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS) gain access to education. The report finds that one in three children in CAFS never go to school, and although there is growing consensus a...
- Gender and sexual relations in South Africa
- N. N. Nyawo; R. Sathiparsad; M. Taylor / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006
- Gender is a culture-specific construct, and the unequal power balance in gender relations that favours males has been shown to be associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This qualitative study explored the views of female high s...
- Ensuring that even the hardest to reach children gain access to quality education
- H. Pinnock; I. Lewis / Enabling Education Network, 2008
- This report is about how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can help school systems in developing countries become more inclusive. It shares experience of developing tools and approaches that have improved education for the most ex...
- CfBT Education Trust (CfBT)
- UK based trust delivering education services worlwide.
- Traditional forms of collective action influence decentralisation reforms
- P. Arnaldo / Tampere University, 2007
- This study analyses the characteristics of community participation in Cambodian rural schools. It looks at the spaces for participation created by the decentralisation reforms that the Government of Cambodia has undertaken in the educ...
- In many countries resources for improving literacy are virtually non-existent
- C Medel-Añonuevo; D. M. Cheick / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2007
- Illiterate women and men cannot access written information, meaning they remain unaware of many national and international issues affecting them that are increasingly being communicated through printed materials. This document from th...
- How educational quality impacts on growth
- E. A. Hanushek; L. Wößmann / World Bank Research, 2007
- Access to education is one of the highest priorities on the development agenda. High-profile international commitment to progress has helped galvanise policy-makers into action. This book aims to contribute to the World Bank&rsqu...
- Recommendations for the education for all fast track initiative
- Education for All Fast Track Initiative, World Bank, 2007
- On March 11, 2008, a working session group representing governments, donor agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs was hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to discuss a set of recommendations for develop...
- A new barometer for education in fragile states
- CfBT Education Trust, 2007
- Schools are often targeted in war and can sometimes also be contributors to conflict by aiding recruitment or acting as locations for ideological indoctrination. The 'Education that Protects' Project seeks to provide a mechanism to co...
- Piloting education models in Somaliland
- H. Smith / CfBT Education Trust, 2007
- The education system in Somaliland is in the process of being re-established and developed following the destruction of the civil war. Partly because of the nomadic lifestyle, enrolment rates are very low and with its current resource...
- Governmental relations with non-state service providers
- S.M. Nural Alam / International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2007
- This research paper aims to understand the dynamics of government relations with non-state providers (NSPs) of basic services in basic education, health and sanitation in Bangladesh. In each service sector, three 'programme areas' are...
- Assessing madrasa education in Bangladesh
- M. Bano / International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2007
- Within South Asia, Bangladesh has been most successful in implementing the state administered madrasa modernisation. The purpose of this study is to understand the dynamics of the state-madrasa relationship in Bangladesh and the facto...
- Relations between state and non-state providers in Pakistan
- M. Bano / International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2007
- This paper attempts to identify and categorise the types of relations that exist between state and non-state providers in Pakistan within three service sectors. The paper draws upon documentary evidence as well as extensive interviews...
- Sub-Saharan Africa needs better school-based sexual health interventions
- V. A. Paul-Ebhohimhen; A. Poobalan; E. R. van Teijlingen / BioMed Central, 2008
- This research paper published in BMC Public Health reviews school-based sexual health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa to prevent HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STI), recognising that most new infection occur in adol...
- Making the most of non-state sector contributions towards reaching EFA goals
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2008
- This paper aims examine some of the myths and realities surrounding non-state provision of education, and to shed some light on both the benefits and the issues associated with this provision. The article also examines a broad range o...
- Literature review on local governance, community participation, and school processes
- M. Dunne; K. Akyeampong; S. Humphreys / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2007
- The main aim of this study is to provide an overview of the research that has explored aspects of access that surround formal state schooling. The specific focus of this review concerns research on the relations within and between sch...
- Analysing the costs and benefits of investing in early childhood care and education in the Arab States
- J. van Ravens; C. Aggio / Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008
- The report analyses the cost associated with expanding early childhood care and education (ECCE), using the Arab States as the case study region. According to the report, particularly in this region, high levels of grade repetition an...
- Taking a qualitative look at the Child Support Grant in South Africa
- N. Hunter; M. Adato / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2007
- Over recent years the Child Support Grant (CSG) has become the ‘biggest’ of the South African social assistance grants in terms of the numbers of beneficiaries. It is a monthly payment by the South African government of R2...
- Designing cash transfer programmes to protect the vulnerable non-poor
- A. de Janvry; E. Sadoulet; P. Solomon; R. Vakis / Social Development, World Bank, 2006
- Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also protected child human capital fro...
- Assessing the teacher situation in The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
- D. Sinyolo / Global Campaign for Education, 2007
- This document reports on a survey conducted by Education International, which investigated teacher supply, teacher attrition, teacher remuneration and motivation, teacher absenteeism and union involvement in policy development in six ...
- 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.
