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Development Education Journal

The Development Education Journal offers a forum for debate about development education theory and practice in the UK and overseas. The Journal takes the widest possible view of development education to include public education, the media and campaigns. Contributions are welcome from educators and others with an interest in development education from agencies, DECs, academic institutions, schools, youth work, adult & community education, from Britain and overseas.

http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/pages/jdeved.htm

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Educating girls in Bangladesh: watering a neighbour's tree?

There is an old Bengali saying which observes: 'Caring for a daughter is like watering a neighbour's tree'. It reflects the view that it is a waste of resources to invest in a daughter who will be 'lost' to another family through marriage. It is one of the arguments that have been used in the past to justify girls' exclusion from school in Bangladesh. However, various recent education initiatives by both government and NGOs have placed stronger emphasis on girls' education, leading to a widely praised increase in access over the last ten years. They include a secondary stipend programme which started on a small scale in 1982 and became a nationwide programme in 1994. The expansion of girls' education in Bangladesh - and how it is perceived - is the subject of this study, with the government's secondary Female Stipend Programme (FSP) used as a case study. Janet Raynor

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/resources/downloads/BA_6.pdf

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Education and Skills: Strategies for Accelerated Development in Asia and the Pacific

This ADB Publication analyzes education sector issues and strategies in the Asia and Pacific region. The study report is expected to guide ADB operations in the education sector and help ensure they remain responsive and relevant to the needs of its developing member countries. The study reaffirms that the goal of inclusive growth depends on continuous development of an adequate human resource base, and provides a strategic framework for ADB's work in the education sector in support of that development.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Studies/Education-Skills-Strategies-Development/Education-Skills-Strategies-Development.pdf

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Education and the G7: time for a global initiative

While there is now a strong international consensus that education is vital to poverty reduction, economic growth and democracy, the international community has demonstrated an inability to tackle the education crisis with any conviction.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/education/education_g7.htm

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Education for All Forum (EFA) 2000 Assessment

Since July 1998, some 180 countries have participated in the most in-depth assessment of basic education ever undertaken. Headed by a national EFA coordinator, national assessment teams have prepared reports outlining the progress towards education for all as well as pinpointing shortcomings towards that goal since 1990 in their country.

http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/efa_2000_assess/index.shtml

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Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2005 - The Quality Imperative

UNESCO 2005. Every year, the EFA Global Monitoring Report assesses where the world stands on its commitment to provide a basic education to all children, youth and adults by 2015. Developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO, the report is an authoritative reference that aims to inform, influence and sustain genuine commitment towards education for all. This Report reviews research evidence on the multiple factors that determine quality, and maps out key policies for improving the teaching and learning process, especially in low-income countries. It monitors international assistance to education and progress towards the six goals of Education for All, to which over 160 countries committed themselves in 2000, at the World Education Forum.

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=35874&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006

UNESCO. The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 aims to shine a stronger policy spotlight on the more neglected goal of literacy - a foundation not only for achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty. Literacy is a right and the foundation for all further learning. Yet literacy remains a right denied to some 771 million adults. The 2006 Global Monitoring Report, Literacy for life, measures the world's progress towards achieving the six Education For All goals, and especially the neglected one of universal literacy.

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=43283&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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Education for peace in Kenya: indigenous peace traditions and the Millennium Development Goals

Since peace is a prerequisite for the realization of the MDGs by the year 2015, it is important to re-examine and reclaim traditional African approaches to peace building in schools. (Timothy Gachanga, Africa Files, 2005)

http://www.africafiles.org/atissueezine.asp?issue=issue1#art2

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Education for Rural People (ERP) Toolkit

This ERP Tool kit provides education and training materials for rural teachers, instructors, trainers, parents, researchers, extensionists and others involved in formal and non formal education for rural people. It could also provide tools for self studies. The Tool Kit draws on the experience, knowledge and skills of a wide range of experts involved in fields relevant to Education for Rural People and these technical inputs have been acknowledged.

http://www.fao.org/sd/erp/ERPtktoolkit_en.htm

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Education in Darfur: a critical component of humanitarian response

Children in Darfur face many challenges in receiving an education: too few teachers, overcrowded classrooms and limited or no supplies, among others. Youth face even more difficult barriers: secondary schools do not exist in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, leaving young people in the camps with nothing to do and little hope for the future. The ever-worsening security situation in Darfur only makes matters worse. In addition, the crisis, which is nearly four years old, is still viewed by the international community as an "emergency," which means that funding for education is not seen as a priority. This report outlines findings on education from missions taken by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in November 2005 and June 2006, and recommends actions the international community can take to ensure that the children and young people of Darfur have a chance to learn while displaced from their homes and communities. (Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, December 2006)

http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/dfeducrit.pdf

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Education Rights: A Guide for Practitioners and Activists

This resource guides people working at local and national levels around the world in taking on a rights-based approach to education (rather than a service delivery/needs-based approach)(ActionAid International, April 2007).

http://www.actionaid.org/main.aspx?PageID=175

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Education's missing millions: including disabled children in education through EFA FTI processes and national sector plans

This study focuses on how the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) Partnership is tackling the challenges of disability and inclusion. It includes two detailed country case studies on Ethiopia and Cambodia and a review of policy and practice in other selected countries (World Vision, 2007)

https://www.worldvision.org.uk/upload/pdf/Education%27s_Missing_Millions_-_Main_Report.pdf

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Education, indigenous knowledge and globalisation

The goal of 'sustainable development' in Africa calls for a re-acknowledgement of the power and contemporary relevance of indigenous knowledge, and its systematic integration into formal and semi-formal education. This article presents a model developed through collaboration between young and old, and between rural Africa and the industrialised world, which might serve as a catalyst for other grassroots organisations to develop educational strategies appropriate to their own circumstances. (Gemma Burford, Lesikar Ole Ngila and Yunus Rafiki, Science in Africa, March 2003)

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/march/ik.htm

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Educational Reform in Chile

This article links the protests by high school students in Chile over the quality of their education to the legacy of Pinochet's dictatorship, which oversaw a devaluation in the role of the state in education and left the market as the great administration instrument of Chilean education. (Marcel Claude, Upside Down World, 13 June 2006)

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/322/1/

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Educators Without Borders

Educators Without Borders(EWB) is a global, non-profit and professional organization that provides professional services and assistance for educational progress in least developed and developing countries.

http://educatorswithoutborders.net/

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Enabling Education Network (EENET)

EENET provides access to a unique and broad-based body of expertise and experience in the practice of inclusive education world wide. It is committed to prioritising the needs of countries/organisations/individuals who have limited access to basic information and resources. It recognises that education is much broader than schooling. EENET is contributing to the development of inclusive and sustainable education policy and practice by sharing relevant information and expericence.

http://www.eenet.org.uk/

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Exploring the Linkages between Children's Independent Migration and Education: Evidence from Ghana [pdf]

Migrating for education is an insufficiently stressed aspect in the literature on children's independent migration and it is frequently assumed that migration undermines children's educational opportunities. What little research has been done suggests that the link between children's migration and education is very context-specific. In this paper the linkages between children's independent migration and education -- formal and non-formal -- is explored in a specific context by drawing on interviews with young migrants who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana. The paper illustrates how, in contrast to the positive light in which education is usually presented, the findings of this research suggests a more ambiguous and complex picture, and illuminates both positive and negative aspects of the linkages between child migration and education. (Iman M. Hashim, Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, August 2005)

http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/working_papers/WP-T12.pdf

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Fast forward: How the European Commission can take the lead in providing high-quality budget support for education and health

Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid, given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and other vital social services. The European Commission (EC) is one of the biggest donors providing this kind of essential budget support, and has innovative plans to further improve and increase this aid. European Union (EU) member states must support these ambitious plans (Oxfam GB, May 2008).

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/debt_aid/bp111_ec_aid.html

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Gender and Education for All - EFA Global Monitoring Report 2003/4

The EFA Global Monitoring Report is produced by an independent, international team based at UNESCO in Paris (France), with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in Montreal. All countries have agreed to eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005. In its opening chapter, this second edition of the EFA Global Monitoring Report sets out the powerful human rights case for achieving parity and equality in education. Chapter 2 monitors progress towards the six EFA goals through a gender lens. The next two chapters look at why girls are still held back and highlight policies that can lift barriers and improve learning. Strategies to remove gender gaps in education are part of a much broader reform effort underway in many countries, as Chapter 5 shows. This agenda cannot be met without much bolder international commitments and better co-ordination, which is assessed in Chapter 6. It is in the interests of all states and peoples to remove the gender gap and it should be a top priority in all educational programmes, as the final chapter concludes.

http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=23023&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201

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Girl power: The impact of girls' education on HIV and sexual behaviour

There are 13,500 new HIV infections every day. One of the latest facets of this dynamic disease is the increasing feminisation of AIDS: in Africa, where the HIV and AIDS epidemic has hit hardest, 74% of young people living with HIV are women. HIV prevention campaigns often fail to address the increased vulnerability of young women because they fail to deal with the simple fact that many women lack the power to determine who to have sex with, or when and how to have sex. The new challenge is how to empower young women to assert their sexual and reproductive rights. Of the possible solutions, giving girls an education is widely recognised as the best way to provide this girl power. This report is a systematic review of all the research published between 1990 and 2006 in eastern, southern and central Africa to address the following research questions: What is the impact of girls' education on sexual behaviour and HIV? What difference does primary or secondary education make to women's vulnerability to HIV? What are some of the possible mechanisms underlying the relationship between HIV and girls' education? (James Hargreaves and Tania Boler, Action Aid, 2006)

http://www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/girl_power_2006.pdf

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Girls' Education

UNICEF's webpage dedicated to girls education. Education is vital to ensuring a better quality of life for all children and a better world for all people. But if girls are left behind, those goals can never be achieved. In country after country, educating girls yields spectacular social benefits for the current generation and those to come. UNICEF's aim is to get more girls into school, ensure that they stay in school and that they are equipped with the basic tools they need to succeed in later life.

http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/

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Global Education Centre

The Global Education Centre is a not for profit organisation providing services to the formal and informal Education sector around Global Education. GEC provides training and resources to teachers, teacher trainees, students, youth workers and community groups. GEC is part of the Development Resource Centre along with Dev-Zone which provides information services to development practicioners and universities. Services offered by GEC: * Lending Library * Schools programme * Community youth programme

http://www.globaled.org.nz

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Global education digest 2007: comparing education statistics across the world

This edition of the Global Education Digest focuses on the financing of education and provides a series of indicators to compare spending patterns across countries and levels of education.The report reviews how levels of education in certain countries compare to those of others with similar economic resources and student populations (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007).

http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/ged/2007/EN_web2.pdf

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Global Links

Global links is ActionAid's interactive global citizenship site for schools It explores life around the world and encourages users to ask questions, share ideas, vote on issues and take action. It is for seven to 14 year-olds, and their teachers to use in geography, citizenship & PSHE lessons.

http://www.globallinks.org.uk/

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HakiElimu Community Governance Programme - Tanzania

The Community Governance programme of HakiElimu, a Tanzanian non-profit organisation established in 2001, aimed to enable communities - including parents, teachers, and students - to transform schools and influence decision making by facilitating participation in school and community governance.

http://www.hakielimu.org/dev3/

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