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    Hidden: A profile of married adolescents in Northern Nigeria.

    Action Health Incorporated, 2006
    This report presents a comprehensive overview of the sexual and reproductive health experience of married adolescents in Nigeria, with a primary focus on the North East of the country where 59% of girls aged 15-19 are married. With young girls, sometimes as young as ten, entering into marriage there are serious pregnancy-related health issues to address.
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    Politics and the Dilemma of Meaningful Access to Education: The Nigerian Story

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011
    This paper makes a case for ‘good politics for good education’, with reference to Nigeria. It surveys the impact of good and bad politics on the attainment of Meaningful Access to education with special focus on Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education programme.
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    Changing Patterns of Access to Education in Anglophone and Francophone Countries in Sub Saharan Africa: Is Education for All Pro-Poor?

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011
    This paper explores patterns of growth in participation in six Anglophone and seven Francophone countries in SSA with Universal Primary Education programmes. The results show that progress has been patchy and sometimes disappointing. Access remains strongly associated with household wealth despite commitments to pro-poor policies.
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    State of world population 2011: people and possibilities in a world of 7 billion

    United Nations Population Fund, 2011
    This report provides a snapshot of how a number of countries are facing diverse demographic challenges, ranging from ageing populations to high fertility rates, and from urbanisation to the emergence of new generations of young people.
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    Climate-proofing Energy Systems

    HELIO International, 2009
    This document analyses energy systems in a climate change context. Many energy policies are driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However current mitigation measures fail to take into account the full impact of increased climatic variability.
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    ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT) Contextualization and Pilot - Tanzania and Nigeria

    Global E-Schools and Communities Initiative, 2011
    There is a commonly accepted view that Education systems will need to effect changes to prepare citizens for lifelong learning in the emerging 21st Century knowledge‐based societies. The global shift towards knowledge‐based economies will require a change in the traditional view of the learning process itself.
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    Developing Countries' Trade Vulnerabilities to EU Climate Policies

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011
    The European Union (EU) aims to take a lead in combating climate change and, as such, experiences a higher intensity of carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns. The EU is, however, an important export market for many developing countries, and BCAs implemented by the EU could therefore have a large impact on these countries.
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    Political economy of the petroleum sector in Nigeria

    World Bank, 2011
    The relatively slow pace of Nigeria's development has often been attributed to the phenomenon of the resource curse whereby the nature of the state as a "rentier" dilutes accountability for development and political actors are able to manipulate institutions to sustain poor governance.
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    Broken promises: gender impacts of the World Bank financed west African and Chad-Cameroon pipelines

    Gender Action, 2012
    This report looks at the gender impacts of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline and West African Gas Pipelines (WAGP). It argues that IFI involvement failed to adequately protect vulnerable social groups in affected communities, particularly women.
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    Broken promises: gender impacts of the World Bank financed west African and Chad-Cameroon pipelines

    Gender Action, 2012
    This report looks at the gender impacts of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline and West African Gas Pipelines (WAGP). It argues that IFI involvement failed to adequately protect vulnerable social groups in affected communities, particularly women.

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