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  Improving gender equality in education in Mali

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Although Mali has made impressive progress in getting more children into school, the gender gap is still wide. In pastoral communities in northern Mali less than a third of girls attend school. Local women are helping to raise girls' enrolments, but schools are failing to challenge assumptions about roles for women and girls.
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  Kicking the habit: how the World Bank and the IMF are still addicted to attaching economic policy conditions to aid

  Oxfam, 2006

  Despite numerous commitments to reform, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the tacit approval of rich-country governments, are still using imposing conditions on aid.This paper reviews the evidence on the extent and nature of loan conditionality, and then uses the case study of Mali to highlight the damage caused by the imposition of policy conditions.The paper fi
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  Making military and security forces in West Africa accountable

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Governments and civil society in many West African countries are trying to restore security. Democratising states or complete rebuilding of collapsed states provides opportunities for security sector reform (SSR). However, democratisation does not necessarily make police, army and intelligence services accountable to parliaments and citizens.
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  Commercial sales of mosquito nets save more lives in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  There are two main strategies for preventing one of the major causes of child mortality in Africa: insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and childhood immunisation. However, despite being subsidised, ITNs still have very low population coverage. What strategies are there for improving ITN coverage?
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  Complementary education in ADEA countries

  Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2006

  This paper presents evidence on “complementary education” programmes in African countries – programmes designed to extend the reach of formal public schooling in developing countries, in order to serve the most disadvantaged or remote areas.
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  Family portraits

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This manual outlines a process for developing family portraits as a tool for influencing policy change. Family portraits are tools for understanding and communicating how real families organise their time and other assets to make a living.
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  Promoting skills development

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004

  This paper presents the main findings of a four-country project aimed at reinforcing institutional capacities and supporting policy formation in the vocational education sector.The project, undertaken in Laos, Mali, Nepal and Senegal, focused on the integration of vocational skills training into the UNESCO Educational For All National Action Plans.
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  Democratization in Mali: putting history to work

  United States Institute of Peace, 2006

  This report outlines the driving forces behind Mali’s democratisation by taking a historical perspective. The paper argues that the foundation of Mali’s democracy is built on inter ethnic tolerance, highlighting how Islam can play a constructive role in this process.
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  Beyond Numbers: Supporting Women's Political Participation and Promoting Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Governance in Africa. A review of the role of the United Nations Development Fund for Women

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  In recent years, there has been a striking increase in the numbers of women in public decision-making roles in Africa at regional, national, and local levels. Interestingly, many of the countries with the highest proportion of women in decision-making structures have recently emerged from armed conflict.
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  Pastoralist schools in Mali: gendered roles and curriculum realities

  Oxfam, 2005

  In the pastoral communities of Gao in northern Mali, girls’ school attendance is as low as 30 per cent, and non-completion rates for primary education are very high.

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