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    Gender gaps and primary schooling: promising policy options for sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Belief that investment in girls’ and women’s education will result in broader development gains and poverty reduction has received widespread acceptance internationally. But what can be done to close the primary education gender gap between girls and boys? How can we achieve universal primary education by 2015?
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    A fresh start for teacher resource centres?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do teacher resource centres (TRCs) help to improve learning in schools? Do they result in better quality teaching and learning in the classroom?
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    Can't pay, won't pay? Factors affecting primary school enrolment in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    At the 1990 World Conference on 'Education for All' in Thailand, governments adopted a plan to achieve universal primary education by the year 2000. Zambia pledged to achieve this goal by 2005, but is likely to fail because recurrent expenditure in schools is not budgeted for. Primary education is in urgent need of reform. Enrolment is low with figures actually decreasing.
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    Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

    Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
    Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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    What makes teachers tick?: a policy research report on teachers' motivation in developing countries

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2002
    The report argues that teachers are often excluded from development and planning for education and the importance of their role ignored by decision makers.Teachers are often under paid and under resourced and neglected, leading to high turnover rates, lack of confidence and varying levels of professional commitment.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    Gender equality in education

    Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999
    In line with the global declaration that education is a fundamental right to which both women and men should have access, countries in southern Africa are striving to achieve gender equity.[author]

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