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    Home-based schooling: access to quality education for Afghan girls

    Journal of Education for International Development, 2006
    This paper describes a home-based schooling program in Afghanistan that provides primary education for children in the Kabul, Paktia, Logar and Nangahar Provinces. The program is particularly interesting in a country wracked by decades of war that is redefining its education policies and education system.
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    Working with the media on gender and education: a guide for training and planning

    Oxfam, 2006
    This guide addresses the issue of harnessing the media to promote gender equality in education. It looks at the linkages between gender equality and education in development. This guide provides advice and practical tools for individuals and organisations to more effectively partner with the media to push for gender equality in education.The guide is divided into seven sections.
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    Guidebook to planning education in emergencies and reconstruction

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006
    This guidebook seeks to support educational authorities working to provide access to quality education for children affected by conflict and other emergencies. This guide is mainly directed at national, provincial and district managers of ministries of education in countries affected by emergencies or hosting refugees.
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    Getting girls out of work and into school

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006
    In the Asia-Pacific region, girls’ labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015.This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls’ child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in plac
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    Educating girls in Bangladesh: watering a neighbour's tree?

    Oxfam, 2005
    The expansion of girls’ education in Bangladesh – and how it is perceived – is the subject of this study, with the government’s secondary Female Stipend Programme (FSP) used as a case study.There is an old Bengali saying which observes: "Caring for a daughter is like watering a neighbour’s tree".
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    Lessons in terror: attacks on education in Afghanistan

    Human Rights Watch, 2006
    This report examines the impact of insecurity on education in Afghanistan, especially on girls’ education.
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    Beyond access for boys and girls: how to achieve good quality, gender-equitable education

    Oxfam, 2005
    This introductory paper frames the issues and challenges to be faced in achieving gender equality and quality Education For All (EFA).
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    Pregnancy-related school dropout and prior school performance in South Africa

    Population Council, USA, 2006
    Using data collected in 2001 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, this paper examines the factors associated with schoolgirl pregnancy, as well as the likelihood of school dropout and subsequent re-enrollment among pregnant schoolgirls.
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    Multiple disadvantages of Mayan females: the effects of gender, ethnicity, poverty, and residence on education in Guatemala

    Population Council, USA, 2006
    This study looks at the various disadvantages Mayan girls face in attaining education in Guatemala.The study’s main findings include: in rural areas in Guatemala, levels of educational attainment and literacy remain among the lowest in Latin America. Problems include late entry, grade repetition, and early dropout.
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    The impact of women teachers on girls' education

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006
    This advocacy brief looks at the recruitment of women teachers, highlighting the importance of women teachers for gender equality in schools, and also the need for a broad gender equality perspective when developing policy and programmes for women teachers.Specific strategies for female teacher recruitment include:provide scholarships and incentives to women to attend pre-service teache

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