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Save the Children Presentation on Learning to Read Overview: Major Issues, Overall Challenges
Save the Children's presentation at the All Children Reading Workshop, Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2012. It reviews the major issues and overall challenges to learning to read, including the necessary reading skills, active learning methodologies, mother ton
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Country risk reduction profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in Bolivia
Bolivia- a landlocked country in central South America bordered by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, and Peru- is vulnerable to drought, landslides, extreme cold, fires and earthquakes. Save the Children's Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities in Bol
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Toolkit: Introduction
Literacy Boost is an innovative, evidence-based approach to improving literacy learning outcomes, and is increasing the reading skills of underperforming children in a growing number of program sites across the globe. This introductory document is designe
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The Promise of Preschool in Africa: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique
The new World Bank report 'The Promise of Preschool in Africa: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique', shows that early childhood programs help children thrive and learn more in rural Africa. Children in rural M
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Beyond School Walls: A boost for readers
While more children are in school today than ever before, many are not learning basic skills like reading once they get there. Save the Children's Literacy Boost Program is helping to change that by creating a culture of reading both inside and outside th
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Literacy Boost Community Action: Creating a Culture of Reading Outside School Walls
Literacy Boost is Save the Children’s innovative program to support the development of reading skills in young children. Teachers, students, parents and community members are engaged to help enhance the skills required for independent reading, while foste
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Literacy Boost. Yemen Baseline Report
The Literacy Boost programme aims to improve young readers literacy and is founded on the idea that reading is a key to unlocking further education and career potential. This programme starts implementing assessment of children’s literacy, followed by tra
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results- Mozambique
In 2008, Save the Children launched the Early Literacy Project in Mozambique, to help 7,800 preschool and primary school-age children, including children affected by HIV/AIDS and other vulnerabilities, develop sound early literacy skills. This project ran
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Literacy Boost: Pakistan- Year 1 Report
In 2010, Save the Children began implementing the Literacy Boost program – an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills – in Allai Tehsil, part of the Battagram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provin
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Literacy Boost- Dendi, Ethiopia. Three-month Report
In 2010, Save the Children began implementing the Literacy Boost program – an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills – in Oromia Region, Dendi District of Ethiopia. The Literacy Boost assessment
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Reaching the marginalized: EFA global monitoring report, 2010
Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftermath of the global economic downturn. The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose lif
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A Guide to Costing Human Rights
This paper aims to improve the ability of civil society organisations to perform costing exercises for human rights policy by giving an overview of key concepts and definitions relevant to costing human rights policy, outlining steps that every human righ