Global education initiatives
- The United Nations World Water Development Report 3: water in a changing world
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2009
- This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of the world’s freshwater resources. The authors note that water is linked to the crises of climate change, energy and food supplies an...
- Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009: Overcoming inequality: why governance matters
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2008
- This report argues that while there has been some remarkable progress towards some of the EFA goals since 2000, progress is being undermined by a failure of governments to tackle persistent inequaliti...
- Media development indicators: a framework for assessing media development
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2008
- The promotion of freedom of speech, the development of community radio, and human resource development are regarded by the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) as ess...
- Strengthening the education sector response to HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean
- World Bank, 2007
- This report from UNESCO and the World Bank presents the findings and outcomes of the joint missions to Guyana, Jamaica and St. Lucia. These missions aim to support improvement of the education sector&...
- Urban water conflicts: an analysis of the origins and nature of water-related unrest and conflicts in the urban context
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2006
- This document is a collection of essays which survey the controversial aspects of the management of water resources in urban areas in view of the increasing urbanisation and privatisation of water ...
- Links between biological and cultural diversity
- A. Persic;G. Martin / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2008
- This report summarises the discussions of an international workshop which addresses the links between biological and cultural diversity. The workshop was convened to provide guidelines and recommendat...
- Making the connections: why literacy matters for HIV prevention
- 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 printe...
- Non-state providers and public-private-community partnerships in education: contributions towards achieving EFA: a critical review of challenges, opportunities and issues
- 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 art...
- Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008: Education for All by 2015: will we make it?
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2007
- In April 2000 in Dakar, 164 governments together with partner institutions adopted a Framework for Action focusing on the achievement of six Education for All (EFA) goals. The 2008 Education for Al...
- Education for all (EFA) in least developed countries
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2006
- Education for All (EFA) has always been concerned with the needs of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The data and analysis contained in this publication show that, while considerable progress is bein...
