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    Quality and access to education in urban informal settlements

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013
    African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) conducted a longitudinal survey, 2005 to 2010, in two formal settlements (Harambee and Jericho) and two informal (slum) settlements (Korogocho and Viwandani) in Nairobi to understand the uptake and patterns of schoolenrolment after the introduction of the Free Primary Education (FPE) in Kenya.
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    Contemporary Ladakh: evolving indigenous & quality education

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Education is both the product of society and an instrument for bringing about further change. Leh is one of the districts of Ladakh where still many loopholes are found in the education system needing immediate attention for the development of the society.
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    Knowledge levels of extension agents and their perceived impact of climate change on extension service provision in Ghana

    Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2014
    This study examined the knowledge levels of extension agents and their perceived impact of climate change on extension service provision in Ghana. Extension agents are employed to develop and deliver educational programmes. Specifically, the paper examines awareness levels of agents on the causes, effects and methods for mitigating climate change.
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    The effects of air pollution on educational outcomes: Evidence from Chile

    Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2013
    The purpose of this study was to analyse the possible contemporary effects of air pollutants on standardized test scores in Chile. Previous studies have indicated that air pollution also generates problems on children cognitive performance and on children capital formation.
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    Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all (Education for All Global Monitoring Report)

    Education for All, UNESCO, 2014
    The 11th Education for All Global Monitoring Report reveals that a global learning crisis is costing governments $129 billion a year. Ten per cent of global spending on primary education is being lost on poor quality education that is failing to ensure that children learn. This situation leaves one in four young people in poor countries unable to read a single sentence.
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    Raising even more clean hands: Advancing health, learning and equity through WASH in Schools

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2012
    This document is a joint call to action for better support and promotion of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in Schools programmes. Supported by a range of case studies, the document argues that these initiatives improve health and learning while enabling children to become ‘agents of change’ for their siblings, parents and wider community.
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    Mapping and analysis of the needs for petroleum related education in Tanzania

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014
    This study maps and analyses the needs for petroleum related education in Tanzania. This study represents an attempt to systematize the needs required at a detailed skills level, indicating gaps in demand and supply. The analysis is structured in a matrix that details skills needs at the professional and technical levels.
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    Youth employment programmes: what can be learnt from international experience with youth employment programmes?

    Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013
    Youth employment programmes have evolved over the years. Over time, there has been a transition from ‘in-classroom only’ towards combined measures of in-classroom, workplace training, and other supplementary services.
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    Dirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2012
    The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour.  Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra
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    Development through empowerment: delivering effective public services – a literature review

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    The provision of public goods is crucial to development: Access to basic services such as clean water and sanitation, transport, health care, and schooling not only increases individual well-being but also serves as an input for aggregate production.

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