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  Educating Indigenous Girls in Latin America: Closing the Gap

  1997

  Despite the fact that gender parity in education has been achieved for children in most Latin American countries, the education of indigenous girls lags behind the rate for indigenous boys, and further behind the rate for non-indigenous children. As a group, indigenous females have the lowest literacy rate.
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  Girls' Education: Good for Boys, Good for Development

  WID-RES-L, 1999

  Does increasing targeting of scarce donor resources to girls' education subtract from educational opportunities for boys' Experience shows otherwise. When the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) opened schools for girls, many parents preferred to send their sons as well as daughters to them instead of government schools.
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  Promoting Girls' Education in Africa: The Design and Implementation of Policy Interventions

  BRIDGE, 1998

  The design and implementation of gender policies in Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are reviewed in this paper, with focus on how gender disparities in education have been incorporated into policy design and other interventions. It assesses the extent to which interventions have been donor driven and affected by political and organisational constraints.
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  Gender and School Achievement in the Caribbean

  BRIDGE, 1997

  Why do girls in the Caribbean do better at school than boys, when in most other developing countries the reverse is true' This report examines the relationship between pupils' sex and school achievement in Barbados, St Vincent and Trinidad. It argues that variation in school achievement is explained largely by the socio-economic status of parents, but sex of the pupil is a clear secondary factor.
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  BRIDGE Report 25: Gender and Education in Asia and the Pacific

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1994

  What are the main constraints facing women and girls in their access to education in Asia and the Pacific' How can these obstacles be overcome' This report offers an overview of the existing factors that limit female participation in school.
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  Redressing Gender Inequalities in Education: A Review of Constraints and Priorities in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  1995

  Literature on what causes gender inequalities in education, as well as on policy and interventions designed to address factors influencing girls' participation in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe is reviewed in this report. Information to facilitate the design and implementation of interventions in order to improve girls' educational outcomes is provided.
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  Gender, Education and Development: A Partially Annotated and Selective Bibliography

  BRIDGE, 1997

  Selected material published since 1975 on the interconnectedness of gender, education and development issues are presented in this bibliography of books, reports, journal articles and pamphlets. It is aimed primarily at those responsible for the formation and operation of gender and education provision in governments or NGOs.
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  Multisectoral Support of Basic and Girls' Education

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2000

  What role do businesses and civil society play in girls' education' While public education budgets are declining, constraints to girls' education have increasingly been recognised as outside the education system. In such a climate, multisectoral partnerships - which unite governments, business, and civil society - are necessary to build resources and capacity for education.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 10: Gender Equality in Education: A Select Annotated Bibliography

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  Aiming to be a practical and useful document for DFID education advisers and those responsible for the implementation of education programmes and projects, in striving towards the international goal of removing gender gaps in education by the year 2005, this bibliography presents a wide range of gender and education materials.
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  Gender Inequalities in Primary Schooling: The Roles of Poverty and Adverse Cultural Practices

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  The roles of poverty and 'adverse cultural practices' in perpetuating the gender gap in primary education evident in many developing countries are explored in this paper. It investigates whether variations in terms of the gender gap can be explained by a country's level of development.

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