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  EFA global monitoring report 2003/4: gender and education for all: the leap to equality

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2003

  This annual report reviews the progress toward the Education for All (EFA) goals to which the international community committed itself in the Dakar Framework for Action.
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  Past, present and future: educating for social and economic change at the Coady International Institute

  Coady International Institute, 2001

  This paper is a retrospective view of the evolution of the diploma program at the Coady International Institute, which inspired by the Antigonish Movement was established in 1959 to meet demand from the South for training in the adult education methods and co-operative practices.
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  Infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh: analysing changes over time and between States

  Young Lives, 2003

  This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and the factors explaining their differential performance.It concludes that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting the MDGs, and that the success of these efforts is reinforced by female empowerment.
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  Must try harder: a school report on 22 rich countries aid to basic education in developing countries

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This report examines the performance of 22 rich country leaders on their promise to provide the aid needed for every child to get an education. The figures used to make the assessment are taken from data supplied by rich countries themselves to the OECD.
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  The education Fast Track Initiative: a Global Campaign review of progress, and recommendations for reform

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This report reviews the process and progress of the Fast Track Initiative for education. Specifically, it gives a critical summary of the key features of the Initiative to date, the criteria for including countries in the Fast Track, and the benchmarks in the World Bank's background analysis.
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  Lifelong learning: a new momentum and a new opportunity for adult basic learning and education (ABLE) in the South

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This paper is the result of a study commissioned by Sida on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several languages, an electronic survey with key respondents throughout the world, personal interviews and a few field visits.
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  Gender and poverty: a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines how gender differentials vary across income groups over the life cycle in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).Using the data from the 2001 BiH LSMS, strong gender-poverty interaction is found in the patterns of labour force participation, gender gap in earnings, individuals’ school finances and school attendance.Main findings include:the main source of gender ine
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  One step further: responses to HIV/AIDS

  SIDA Studies, 2002

  This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS.
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  Actualising the right to education: participatory civil society-led approaches to educational interventions for girl child labourers in India: the road ahead

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This paper analyses the role of civil society in advocating for the adoption of the Bill on the Right to Education in India. The author argues that recent successes in civil society mobilisation could form a good basis to implementing the right to education with the active collaboration and participation of the Indian government.
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  Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002

  This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.

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