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Teacher motivation and incentives in Sierra Leone
Eldis Document Store, 2006Interviews with Sierra Leone’s primary teachers reveal that the country is facing a teacher motivation crisis that threatens the quality of basic education. Although this problem has been clearly recognised in Sierra Leone’s National Action Plan for Education For All, acute fiscal constraints make these urgently needed measures very difficult to realise.DocumentMore aid for Africa is only a mixed blessing
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The donor community has pledged to double aid to Africa by 2010. This presents Africa with great opportunities. But it can also make life harder for exporters and the private sector. Their production costs will have to be lowered but can aid help achieve that?DocumentConsolidating the peace?: views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
CARE International, 2007This report assess the first year of work by the United Nations Peacebuilidng Commission (PBC). The report coincides with the PBC’s own first annual report to the General Assembly and assesses the PBC’s impacts on its first two focus countries: Sierra Leone and Burundi.DocumentSierra Leone: the election opportunity
International Crisis Group, 2007The 2007 elections will be a crucial test of whether Sierra Leone has definitely turned away from conflict in favour of security and democratic governance.DocumentEnhancing Southern capacity: rhetoric and reality
Forced Migration Review, 2007Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building Southern capacity and, increasingly, this discourse has been focused on forming ‘partnerships’ with Southern organisations. In this edition of Forced Migration Review, researchers and practitioners from around the world examine how far the rhetoric of capacity-building is matched by the reality.DocumentUnjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities
ActionAid International, 2007Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.DocumentConfronting the contradictions: the IMF, wage bill caps and the case for teachers
ActionAid International, 2007IMF restrictions on recurrent government spending are working against the MDGs, and Education for All, this report argues.DocumentEMIS capacity and priority identification: a web-based country survey for Ministry of Education personnel in Sub-Saharan Africa
Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2007This report presents the results of a survey to gauge the capacity levels of Anglophone African Education Ministries’ statistics offices. It presents information provided by statisticians, planners and computer specialists from the Ministries on:DocumentChallenging the IMF on education: why caps on teachers need to be lifted
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007UNESCO estimates that 18 million new teachers are needed globally between now and 2015 to get all children into school in more or less acceptable class sizes (of no more than 40 children to 1 teacher). At least 2.4 million new teachers will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa. It is clear that massive new investments need to be made.DocumentGood intentions do not prevent conflict
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007When we speak of the international community we think of states, the United Nations, development agencies, or non-government organisations. Yet other groups and individuals are often as relevant to development: multinational and local companies and private security firms.Pages