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    Educating children with visual impairment in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Providing education for children who are blind or who have low vision is challenging for poor countries. Traditional solutions based around special schools can only cater for a small proportion of children. Itinerant teachers moving between schools and communities can help ensure that children with visual impairment enter, and succeed in, mainstream education.
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    Gender difference in the long-term impact of famine

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    An increasing literature examines the association between restricted fetal or early childhood growth and the incidence of diseases in adulthood. Little is known, however, about gender difference in this association.
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    Demographic aging: implications for mental health

    Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2007
    Special healthcare needs of the aged will have to be addressed by healthcare systems across the world. For older people, mental health conditions are an important cause of morbidity and premature mortality.  With its devastating negative effects on careers and families, dementia will soon emerge as a major public health problem in most developing countries.
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    The Aged Family Uganda (TAFU) 2008 case study of the older persons of Uganda

    The Aged Family Uganda, 2008
    There are over a million older persons in Uganda, many of whom lack food, money, clean water and medical support and have lost their children to war and HIV and AIDS.
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    Gender equity in education: a review of trends and factors

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
    India accounts for 30 per cent of the world’s total illiterate population and around 70 per cent of these illiterates are women. This review paper draws on recent data to map the access and participation rates of girls relative to boys.
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    The ESCUP (EQUIP1/Cambodia Educational Support to Children in Underserved Populations) Activity Toolkit

    Educational Quality Improvement Program, USAID, 2008
    This toolkit outlines activities and training methods to address problems that affect school attendance and development in Cambodia. The toolkit is organised into a website developed to engage school committees to prioritize the problems they encounter and to choose the appropriate interventions to solve those problems.
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    Ghana country report on the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA)

    United Nations Programme on Ageing, 2008
    This Country Report gives a brief account of the approaches adopted and activities carried out by the various stakeholders, relevant Government and Non-Governmental organisations in the five years since the 2002 Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid and the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA).
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    Conceptualising disability and education in the South: challenges for research

    Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2007
    Focusing on a southern context, this paper aims to discuss some of the methodological challenges underpinning the “Disability, Education and Poverty Project” (DEPP). The DEPP aims to explore the role that education plays in the lives of individuals with disabilities living in poverty and aims to understand the effect of education on social, human and learning outcomes.
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    Forgotten youth: disability and development in India

    Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2008
    While attention is being focused on young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on development.  Little is known about the experiences of the millions of disabled young people in India aged between 12 and 24, nor how they and the others around them make sense of their lives and
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    What can be done to accelerate progress against undernutrition?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Many organisations work to eliminate undernutrition in children and pregnant and lactating women in developing countries. These organisations – international organisations, donors, academia, civil society and private sector – are loosely linked as an international nutrition system. However, this system is fragmented and dysfunctional.

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