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    Eliminating mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV in Uganda by 2015: what will it take?

    HIV/AIDS Knowledge Management and Communication Capacity, 2014
    Attaining Elimination of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission (EMTCT) targets in Uganda by 2015 requires increased funding to the response from both the Government and international agencies, investment in health systems strengthening, and investment in gender sensitive, family centred community engagement.
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    Economic policy monitor 2011: education for development

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    This issue of the PIDS Economic Policy Monitor (EPM) focuses on education in the Philippines.
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    A glimpse at the school dropout problem

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Dropouts may appear small in number but they are preponderant among the poor which thereupon turns the wheels of intergenerational transmission of poverty against them. At the personal level, dropping out of school will mean consigning one to a future of low-income trajectory. Given a choice, one will obviously not opt for this.
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    Research briefing: the impact of SENAI's vocational training programme on employment, wages, and mobility in Brazil: What lessons for Sub Saharan Africa?

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    In Sub-Saharan Africa, there is ample evidence of the significant role that education plays on shaping the labour market transition of young people. When comparing Brazil with some countries in the region, the data suggests that the higher levels of education in Brazil have a positive impact on the probability of finding a full-time job.
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    The impact of SENAI's vocational training programme on employment, wages, and mobility in Brazil: what lessons for Sub Saharan Africa?

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    In Brazil, the National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI) has existed for decades as the main building block of the Brazilian S-system of vocational training.
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    Podcast: Tackling Youth Unemployment in Africa

    International Monetary Fund, 2014
    In this IMF-produced podcast, Nigerian Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi gives his perspectives on youth unemployment across Africa, including his recommendations on how to solve this growing issue.
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    Adolescent girls fact sheet

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2014
    The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) prepared this report to highlight the plight of displaced adolescent girls across the world. It acknowledges that girls 15-years-old or younger are particularly vulnerable to sexual assaults and gender-based violence (GBV). They are also less likely to attend school, which influences child marriage and early childbearing.
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    A girl's right to say no to marriage: working to end child marriage and keep girls in school

    Plan International, 2013
    One in three girls in the developing world are married by their eighteenth birthday. Despite being prohibited by international human rights, child marriage continues to be a violation of children’s human rights. This report by Plan International focuses on the importance of education in preventing child marriages.
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    Girl consultation research toolkit

    2013
    This guide is for individuals or organisations wishing to speak directly to girls in poverty. It includes a selection of tools to help you hear from girls, to understand their lives, to uncover the issues and challenges they face and to gather their opinions on how they want the world to change.
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    Islam and girl child education

    2010
    This paper discusses the education of the girl child in the Islamic context. Based on the verses in the scriptures, it suggests that education in Islam encompasses both the knowledge for prayer, and of the sciences and humanities. It highlights scriptures that talk of the benefits derived from education.

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