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  Guidebook to planning education in emergencies and reconstruction

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006

  This guidebook seeks to support educational authorities working to provide access to quality education for children affected by conflict and other emergencies. This guide is mainly directed at national, provincial and district managers of ministries of education in countries affected by emergencies or hosting refugees.
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  Getting girls out of work and into school

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006

  In the Asia-Pacific region, girls’ labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015.This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls’ child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in plac
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  Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2006

  This paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.The authors find that:the programme increased school participation of 14 to 17 year old children quite substantially, by between 5 and 7 percentage pointsthe programme had lower, but non-negligible effects on
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  Demonstrating the potential of MEMKWA to respond to the learning needs of street children

  Mkombozi Centre, Tanzania, 2005

  This position paper compares the experience of the Mkombozi Centre for Street Children in implementing a contextualised learning programme referred to as Mpango kwa Elimu Maalum kwa Watoto waliokosa (MEMKWA) to that of the Tanzanian Ministry of Economic and Culture (MOEC).
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  Promotion of improved learning opportunities for street children in Indonesia

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005

  This report summarises the objectives and outcomes of the National Policy Forum on Promotion of Improved Learning Opportunities for Street Children in Indonesia.
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  Report on situational analysis of street children Education for All policy review and best practices studies on basic NFE for children living and/or working on the streets in Pakistan

  AMAL Human Development Network, 2005

  This study comprises of a national situational analysis in Pakistan of the problems street children’s face; a review of education policies and EFA; case studies on best practices on basic NFE for street children living on the streets; and potential areas of strategic intervention for UNESCO.Key findings from the study include:lack of coordination among various concerned provisional educ
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  In-depth analysis of child labour and education in Costa Rica

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This report provides in-depth analysis of child labour in Costa Rica. The Multiple Purpose Household Survey (EHPM) data revealed that people between the ages of 5 and 17 who are economically active were found in 99,846 households. The number of working children in the country for that year amounts to 113, 523.
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  In-depth analysis of child labour and education in Panama

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2003

  This report provides in-depth analysis on child workers in Panama. The author suggests that the labour insertion of children 14 years old and younger indicates that there is a need to apply more effective control mechanisms in relation to child labour in order to comply with the international conventions ratified and the existing legal regulations.
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  Education for all: non-formal education among street children in Nepal

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005

  This report presents the outcomes of a policy forum which was conducted to discuss quality basic education for out-of-school children with particular focus on street children within the framework of the EFA National Plan of Action.The specific objectives of the forum included to present the findings and recommendations of the research on non-formal education (NFE), and best practices for out-of
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  Child labour, gender inequality and rural/urban disparities: how can Ethiopia's national development strategies be revised to address negative spill-over impacts on child education and well-being?

  Young Lives, 2005

  This paper examines the Ethiopian Government's emphasis on the intensification of agricultural activities in order to increase livelihood options and provide better safety nets for the poor (e.g.

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