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    How does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net program affect livestock accumulation and children’s education?

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014
    The report uses panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the welfare impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program. We assess whether the program raised livestock asset levels and children’s education among participant households.
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    Reproductive health knowledge and perceptions: a rapid assessment in four villages in Sindh

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2014
    Indus Resource Center (IRC) is scaling up its project “Reproductive Health through Girls’ Education”, now revised as “Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Girls through Life Skills Based Education”.
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    Improving livelihoods through conservation and education. A case study of the Swastha butterfly garden

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2014
    In many parts of the developing world, those with physical or mental handicaps are often considered to be a burden on society, with limited to no remunerative activities available in the workforce. Activities such as butterfly farming, which require precision and attention to detail, are potentially relevant for disadvantaged groups as a source of livelihoods.
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    Achievement gap between indigenous and non-indigenous children in Peru: an analysis of Young Lives survey data

    Young Lives, 2014
    In Peru, indigenous children obtain lower scores on academic tests, on average, than non-indigenous children. In this study, we investigate whether a test score achievement gap is found by the age of 5 and whether this gap increases by the age of 8.
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    Changing schools in Andhra Pradesh: the experiences of children and their caregivers

    Young Lives, 2014
    Moving from one school to another is a significant event for children, marked by new experiences and challenges. Changing schools can be difficult in terms of the curriculum, language, physical facilities in the school, change of friendships and adjusting to new teachers.
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    Findings on the worst forms of child labor 2013

    2014
    The existence of child labour, particularly in its worst forms, often involves violations of laws and regulations, including serious criminal violations.  This report focuses on the efforts of certain U.S. trade beneficiary countries and territories to eliminate the worst forms of child labor through legislation, enforcement mechanisms, policies and social programmes.
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    Time taken for inputs into education or policy reform to affect learning outcomes

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    It is difficult to assess the time it takes for inputs into education or education policy reforms to affect learning outcomes. Attributing changes in results to system-wide reforms can be complex when there are many different programmes and elements affecting outcomes. Data are not always available on learning outcomes over time and may be complicated by changes in testing.
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    The role of education in responding to natural disasters

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2011
    The role for education in natural disaster management that appeared most frequently in the literature is teaching children risk reduction and management material. Children often spread learning to their families and communities and many believe that ‘educating a child is educating a family’.
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    Third party verification of the delivery of education goods and services

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    This Helpdesk query report looks at what evidence exists about the effectiveness of third party verification of the delivery of education goods and services (especially textbooks), and also under what circumstances and in what ways can such verification best be implemented? Main areas the report covers:
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    Universal design of schools and classrooms

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    This document provides a review of the literature on the issues of universal design of schools and classrooms. Specifically, it answers the question: What evidence exists to support investment in universal design of schools and classrooms? Include studies that look at benefits, costs, and specific elements of universal design (toilets, windows, ramps etc). 

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