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USAID's Global Health Strategic Framework
The U.S.Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Global Health Mission Statement: USAID supports partner countries in preventing and managing major health challenges of poor, underserved, and vulnerable people, leading to improved health outcomes
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UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
UNESCO and its statistical branch, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS,) have jointly released the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, which includes over 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators. It
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¿Está el piso parejo para los niños del Perú? Medición y comprensión de la evaluación de las oportunidades
The World Bank and The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group report '¿Está el piso parejo para los niños del Perú?” [Is the Playing Field Leveling in Peru?], measures the evolution of children’s opportunit
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Integrating Gender in Care and Support of Vulnerable Children: A Guide for Program Designers and Implementers
This guide, developed by FHI 360, provides step-by-step guidance and recommendations on how to identify and address gender-related issues that negatively affect vulnerable boys and girls in the local program context. It is intended to be a practical tool
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A more ambitious, effective Global Partnership for Education: Three priorities for the next phase of reform. Briefing by civil society organisations, May 2012
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has become a major player in education aid; it has significant strengths but also major weaknesses. This briefing, co-authored by GCE and Oxfam International and published by 5 global/regional networks and 9 INGO
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What inequality means for children: Evidence from Young Lives
This Young Lives paper is a contribution to the global thematic consultation addressing inequalities within the post-2015 development agenda which is being co-organised by UNICEF and UN Women. Failure to fully integrate equality principles is recognised a
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South African Gauge 2012. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
The South African Child Gauge is the only publication in the country that provides an annual snapshot of the status of South Africa’s children. It is published by the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, to track South Africa’s progress towards
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Finishing school- A Right for Children's Development: A Joint Effort. Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children. Executive Summary
Executive Summary of the report in Spanish “Completar la escuela: Un derecho para crecer, un deber para compartir" (Finishing School. A Right for Children´s Development: A Joint Effort), which is part of the Global Initiative on Out-of School Children pro
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Child poverty and inequality: New perspectives
The 21st century starts with vast inequalities for children in terms of income, access to food, water, health, education, housing, or employment for their families. Half of the world’s children are below the poverty line of $2 a day and suffer from multip
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Completar la escuela: Un derecho para crecer, un deber para compartir. Todos los niños en la escuela en 2015. Iniciativa Global por los Niños fuera de la Escuela
In Latin America and the Caribbean there are approximately 117 million children and adolescents in preschool, primary and basic secondary education age groups. However, 6.5 million of them do not attend school and 15.6 million either enter school one or t
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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity in Peru: Taking Advantage of the Longitudinal Dimension of Young Lives
Multidimensional poverty and inequality of opportunity are closely interconnected concepts. Equality of opportunity levels the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, geographical location or family background, which are beyond the
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Is School Education Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Children? Factors Shaping Education Inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
School education is held up as an ‘escape route from poverty’. Millions of poor children and families are buying into this promise and often investing scarce resources in going to school, in the hope that it will lead to a better life. This paper looks at