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  Making schools safe for girls: combating gender based-violence in Benin

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2004

  This study looks at teacher-student harassment in schools in Benin. It emphasises that schools are not always safe from gender-based violence, and that gender-based violence at school undermines girls’ academic enrolment, achievement and retention.
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  Orphanhood and child vulnerability: Côte D’Ivoire

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This paper explores the effect of orphanhood and fostering on child vulnerability in Côte D’Ivoire in particular, and the links between AIDS orphans, schooling, and child labour in general.The main findings of the study include:orphanhood increases child vulnerability in two main ways: it makes it much more likely that a child is denied schooling and much more likely that a child is exp
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  Orphanhood and child vulnerability: Senegal

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This paper explores the effect of orphanhood and fostering on child vulnerability in Senegal in particular, and the links between AIDS orphans, schooling, and child labour in general.The main findings of the study include:orphanhood increases child vulnerability mainly because the child is much more likely to be denied schoolingcompared to non-orphans, double orphans are six percent
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  Girls’ education: towards a better future for all

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper discusses the steps that DFID will take, together with its partners, to implement the actions needed in order to meet the education and gender Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and to provide a quality education for girls.The paper argues that progress in girls’ education has been hampered by a number of factors: a lack of international political leadership; a global funding gap
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  Partnerships for girls’ education

  Oxfam, 2005

  This book presents an analysis of the achievements and challenges of partnerships for girls' education.
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  Can conditional cash transfer programs improve social risk management?: lessons for education and child labor outcomes

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines whether or not shocks adversely affect child schooling and labour choices, and to what extent Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes can help mitigate these effects.
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  Toward universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This report, written by the Task Force on Education and Gender equality, identifies the shortcomings of education systems in many developing countries and emphasises the changes in institutional arrangements and incentives that are critical if new investments and other interventions are to work.The report discusses two strategies which are identified to increase and improve educational opportu
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  Impact of incentives to increase girls’ access to and retention in basic education

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004

  This advocacy brief outlines some successes and failures of incentive schemes, aimed to increase girls’ school attainment, and summarise lessons learned for future policy development.The paper finds that overall the effectiveness of incentive programmes in increasing girls’ school attendance is not known.
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  Barriers and bridges: access to education for internally displaced children

  Brookings Institution, 2005

  This paper looks at the barriers internally displaced children face in accessing education. It states that often education is treated as a secondary need, to be addressed only once conflicts have subsided.
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  Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households: evidence from Mexico

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper looks at the impact of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program PROGESA (now OPORTUNIDADES) on child labour, emphasising the differential impact on indigenous households.

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