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  Education for all: is commitment enough?

  Education International, 2003

  This report outlines the history of the Education For All (EFA) initiatives and their lack of progress toward stated goals.
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  Partnerships in education: key findings on the role of NGOs in basic education in Africa

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This document reports on a study to understand how government, donor, NGO, and civil society representatives view the increasing role of NGOs in basic education in Africa. The study was carried out in Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, and Mali.
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  Literacy programmes and sustainable livelihoods

  Khanya - Managing Rural Change CC, 2001

  The aim of this article is to stimulate ideas around how educators could deliver effectivenon-formal literacy programmes particularly in the context of development.
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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Spare the child: corporal punishment in Kenyan schools

  Human Rights Watch, 1999

  This paper reports on research conducted interviews with children in twenty different government schools spread throughout six different provinces of Kenya: Nairobi, Central Province, Eastern Province, Rift Valley Province, Nyanza Province, and the Coast Province.
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  Lasting wounds: consequences of genocide and war on Rwanda's children

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report documents widespread violations of the rights of the child in post-genocide Rwanda.
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  Primary schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: recent trends and current challenges

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  The paper argues that achievement of the MDG of Education for All (EFA) by 2015 will not only require a level of international resources and commitment not yet seen, but will also require better tools for monitoring educational progress at the country level.The authors estimate that more than 37 million young adolescents aged 10–14 in sub-Saharan Africa will not complete primary school.
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  The education imperative: supporting education in emergencies

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2003

  This publication aims to provide information about the current state of education in emergencies, explain why it is needed, and describe how it can be done better and reach more children.It begins by outlining the scale of the problem and stating that of the estimates 7 million refugees and internally displaced persons, around a third are school age children.
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  International migration, remittances and the brain drain: a study of 24 labor-exporting countries

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper constructs a new data set of 24 large, labour-exporting countries using estimates of migration and educational attainment based on United States and OECD records.The paper uses this new data set to provide some perspective on the importance of international migration.
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  Indigenous and tribal children: assessing child labour and education challenges

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2003

  This working paper analyzes child labour and education challenges among indigenous and tribal peoples. A number of project and policy approaches are assessed, followed by a list of recommendations for action.Based on a global review of existing evidence and documentation, indigenous and tribal children are identified as a group at particular risk of ending up in child labour.

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