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  Impact study of the New Horizons program in Egypt

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This report assesses the impacts of the New Horizons (NH) program (1999-2002) on participants, their families and the community.
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  Adding it up: the benefits of investing in sexual and reproductive health care

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  This report, produced by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), advocates increased funding for sexual and reproductive health services, particularly in poor countries; emphasising the broad range of benefits – not only in terms of health but also social and gender equity, economic growth and democratic governance – that this investment will bring.
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  The SWAP: one financial strategy for educational development in Nepal

  Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2001

  This paper examines the use of a sector wide approach (SWAP) as a relatively new type of external educational funding in Nepal.Findings include:the Nepalese government assumed primary responsibility for funding formal and non-formal educational programs during the early 1950sby the mid 1950s, the influence of foreign money, in terms of specific 'projects,' significantly altered the
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  Education in situations of emergency, crisis and reconstruction: UNESCO strategy

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This document presents UNESCO’s strategy for emergency education, aimed at bringing education to the displaced, to people in countries affected by chronic low-level conflict, to populations in post-conflict situations and to those affected by natural disasters.The strategy has five basic components:ensuring the strategic function: in promoting education in situations of emergency
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  World Bank development policy: a SAP in SWAPs clothing

  Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2001

  This paper examines the current trend in education and development policy of working through ‘partnerships’ and analyses the embodiment of such partnerships in the rhetoric surrounding sector wide approaches (SWAPs) and the World Bank's extension of SWAPs.
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  Colombia's war on children

  Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2004

  This report describes the impacts on young people devastated by the culture of crime and violence in Colombia: including displacement; health; education; gender based violence; trafficking and exploitation; landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).Guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, government armed forces and national police all perpetrate violence and abuses against civilians, including children
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  Teach a child, transform a nation

  Basic Education Coalition, 2004

  This report portrays the state of basic education in the world and presents data to show the multifaceted benefits that basic education brings to a nation.Figures presented include:of 680 million primary school age children, 115 million do not attend school.half of those who start primary school finish it (but in sub-Saharan Africa, two out of three do not)three-fifths of out-of
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  Gender equality in basic education and lifelong learning through CLCs: experiences from 15 countries

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2003

  This report reviews the activities carried out by selected CLCs (Community Learning Centres) in the Asia Pacific region as examples of good practice in the promotion of gender equality in basic and lifelong education.The report discusses the lessons learned and offers recommendations for enhancing the CLC ’s role in providing education for a more effective impact on community life.Some of th
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  Education for all fast track: the no-progress report

  Oxfam, 2003

  The EFA Fast Track Initiative (FTI), a compact which aims to close the education financing gap in countries that implement far reaching reforms, has faced significant obstacles.This report documents what it calls the systematic failure of donors to keep their promise to Southern governments, and also outlines what it thinks must be done to make the FTI effective.Recommendations include:
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  Public-private partnerships for the delivery of basic education services to the poor

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2003

  This paper details the seminar, ‘public-private partnerships (PPPs) for the delivery of basic education services to the poor’. The aim of the seminar was to discuss lessons and challenges in implementing public-private partnerships for the delivery of basic education services.

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