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  Integration of care and education: the challenge in Brazil

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006

  The Brazilian government introduced a policy to integrate the administrative responsibility for day care centres for 0-3 year-olds and preschools for 4-6 year-olds into the education sector in 1996. But even after nine years, the two services are still far from being integrated.This Policy Briefing paper from UNESCO provides a summary of an interview with Dr.
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  A study of policies and programs for street children and education in Indonesia

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005

  This paper examines street children’s education in Indonesia.
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  School-to-work transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: an overview

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2005

  This study aims to generate and analyse a set of youth education and employment indicators based on survey data for a subset of 13 countries in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)region. Particular emphasis is put on measuring the initial transition from school to work for different groups of young people, and on identifying the factors affecting this transition.
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  Youth livelihood toolkit: preparing out-of-school youth for livelihood

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2005

  This toolkit is designed to identify effective policies that support the preparation of livelihood opportunities for out-of-school youth in terms of earning, learning, and skill development opportunities.
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  Child learning in Andhra Pradesh: the interplay between school and home

  Young Lives, 2005

  India has seen remarkable progress over the past 50 years in both adult literacy and school enrolment for girls and boys. However, there are concerns about drop-out rates and the quality of education, especially in public schools. Children learn both within and outside the classroom.
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  Child protection in emergencies

  Save the Children [Sweden], 2005

  In this report, Save the Children discuss their key protection programme priorities for children in emergency situations. These priorities are used to guide sustainable field activities, use resources efficiently and target advocacy efforts to achieve systemic change.
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  Out of school and (probably) in work: child labour and capability deprivation in India

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household’s survival.
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  Children in abject poverty in Uganda: a study of criteria and status of those in and out of school in selected districts in Uganda

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005

  This study on children in abject poverty in Uganda was undertaken to identify the problems hidden by the fact that the children in poverty are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that are classified as the poor in Uganda.
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  Implementing minimum standards for education in emergencies: lessons from Aceh

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2005

  In December 2004, the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) launched a handbook entitled Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people: reviewing research conducted and distilling implications for the education sector in Asia

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

  This paper examines the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on children (0-18 years old) in Asia, and also looks at the implications of HIV and AIDS for the education sector.The main impact of HIV and AIDS on children are summarised into three main areas: loss of social and/or family support: children will also lose their economic, social and emotional safety net.

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