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Improving the Education Response to HIV and AIDS (2008)
This report synthesises case study exercises undertaken to examine the quality, effectiveness and coordination of the education sector’s response to the HIV epidemic in four countries – Jamaica, Kenya, Thailand and Zambia.
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education For All (2007)
A framework for the realization of children’s right to education and rights within education
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New Partnerships for EFA: Building on Experience (2008)
A global review
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Gender and Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An Annotated Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of existing research on gender and education in the Commonwealth Caribbean
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Making Schools Inclusive (2008)
This book is about how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can help school systems in developing countries become more inclusive. It shares experience of developing tools and approaches that have improved education for the most excluded children in society.
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Girls Count (2008)
One person in eight is a girl or young woman age 10–24. Young people are the fastest growing segment of the population in developing countries, and their welfare is a fundamental input for key economic and social outcomes -- including the size and competitiveness of tomorrow's labor force, future economic growth, improved governance, and healthy civil societies.
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The Girls' Education Initiative in Egypt (2008)
This publication sets out to give testimony to an outstanding and inspirational educational initiative in Egypt that, very simply, is succeeding in meeting a major objective that many developing countries are aspiring to: getting girls into schools.
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A Qualitative Study to Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi (2008)
The Safe Schools Program has just released A Qualitative Study to Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi which summarizes the results of a participatory learning and action (PLA) research activity conducted in Malawi’s Machinga District to help raise awareness, involvement, and accountability at national, institutional, community and individual levels of school-related gender-based violence.
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Equals: Issue 20, April 2008 (2008)
Equals 20 has a special focus on gender mainstreaming. It reviews progress and challenges towards gender mainstreaming since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995, and considers efforts to mainstream gender in education, particularly through the work of the Commonwealth Education Fund’s Gender Equality in Education Project. Other features include a book review, weblinks, new reports and a news section highlighting the Global Campaign for Education’s World’s Biggest Lesson on the 23rd April 2008.
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FAWE Strategic Plan 2008-2012
In the last decade, significant steps have been made towardsachieving gender equality in education across Africa. Many sub-Saharan Africa countries have now concrete interventions to ensure free and compulsory primary education for all.
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Behind the Screen (2007)
An inside look at gender inequality in Asia
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A toolkit for mainstreaming gender in higher education in Africa (2008)
Ten Modules and a Literature Review
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Impact of Sex and HIV Education Programs on Sexual Behaviors of Youth in Developing and Developed Countries (2005)
Sex and HIV education programs that are based on a written curriculum and that are implemented among groups of youth in school, clinic, or community settings are a promising type of intervention to reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. This paper summarizes a review of 83 evaluations of such programs in developing and developed countries.
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New Partnerships for EFA: Building on Experience (2008)
Moves to expand partnerships for development to involve the private sector, including business, foundations and a wide range of civil society organizations, have gathered strength in recent years.
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Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education for All (GTF) - Newsletter No.3 (2008)
March 2008 newsletter from IPEC
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The Global Education Initiative (GEI) Model of Effective Partnership Initiatives for Education (2007)
This report presents and describes the Global Education Initiative (GEI) model of effective partnership initiatives for education as it is currently being implemented in Jordan, Rajasthan, India and Egypt and summarizes the many lessons learned in the process of implementing initiatives across these three countries.
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Raising Student Learning in Latin America (2007)
The Challenge of the 21st Century
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Gender mainstreaming: Does it happen in education in South Asia? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
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The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008
“Education for All by 2015: Will we make it?” asks the title of the 2008 edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, launched on 29 November at the United Nations in New York.
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Progress in girls' education: The challenge of gender equality in South Asia (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
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Global Future (Nov 2007)
A World Vision Journal of Human Development
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Global School Report 2008: No Excuses!
A global report card ranking governments efforts to achieve Education for All.
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The Road Not Traveled (2008)
Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
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Learning from Girls’ Education as an Organizational Priority (2008)
This report highlights themes of particular importance to basic education, especially for girls, as emphasized in the first MTSP. The report also discusses briefly the broader role and functions of UNICEF studies and evaluations in education related to these priority areas, as requested in the original terms of reference.
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Poverty and economic vulnerability in South Asia: Does it impact girls' education? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
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Where Peace Begins – Education’s role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding (2008)
Part of the purpose of this report is to set out – on the basis of Save the Children’s experience – what they believe to be the impact of conflict on children and on their education. The report also sets out Save the Children's understanding of how education can make conflicts worse and how education – the right sort of education – can support peace. However, describing how the right sort of quality education can lead to peace and how the wrong sort can make conflict worse will only get us so far. We need to find ways of making quality education a reality in conflict-affected fragile states around the world.
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Education under attack (2007)
A global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials, and institutions
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From parity to equality in girls' education: How are we doing in South Asia? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.