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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results- Ethiopia Year 2
Literacy Boost is Save the Children’s innovative, evidence-based program to support the development of reading skills in young children. Literacy Boost holistically pursues the goal of literacy by: using assessments to identify gaps and measure improvemen
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Results for learning report 2012. Fostering evidence-based dialogue to monitor access and quality in education
The Results for Learning Report is part of the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) monitoring and evaluation strategy to measure the progress made in helping developing nations implement their own education sector plans. This is the first of a series
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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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Literacy Boost. Dendi, Ethiopia. Endline II- Final Report
In 2011, Save the Children (SC) began implementing the second year of the Literacy Boost (LB) program. The program, designed to improve reading skills for early grade students, focuses on working with teachers, parents, and community members, as well as p
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Delivering quality early learning in low-resource settings. Progress and challenges in Ethiopia. Working Paper No. 59-- Bernard Van Leer Foundation
Ethiopia offers a case study in the development of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in low-resource settings, which needs to be understood in the context of recent government priorities to universalise primary education, and low levels of ECCE of
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The future is now. Education for children affected by conflict
More than half of all children who are out of school live in conflict-affected fragile states. What are the challenges to getting them into school? And what needs to be done? Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future campaign was launched in 2006 to get chil
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Literacy Boost Kailali, Nepal- Year 1 Report Nepal
Save the Children's Literacy Boost program was implemented as a pilot program in Kailali, a district in the far-western region of Nepal, in April 2009, the start of the school year. The program was implemented in 16 schools and approximately 52 communitie
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What Happened? A study on the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in five countries: Estonia, Nepal, Peru, Uganda and Yemen
A study on the impact of the the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in Peru, Estonia, Uganda, Yemen and Nepal, undertaken by Save the Children Sweden. The UNCRC has had an undeniable impact at national level shown by changes to l
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Making it Count. Providing education with equity and quality in the run-up to 2015
This briefing looks at what global leaders, donor countries and states must do to stay committed to recognising children's right to free, good-quality primary education. With only five years to go until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Developm
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Exploring the dynamics of exclusion in education
Save the Children Sweden’ study “Exploring the Dynamics of Exclusion in Education” uses the Community based Education Management Information System (C-EMIS) approach to analyze and enhance the understanding of factors and dynamics of exclusion from Educat
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Continuidad y respeto por la diversidad: Fortaleciendo las transiciones tempranas en Perú
This working paper is part of a series on early transitions from Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. It explores the diverse experiences of 28 children from four contrasting communities in P
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Schooling and Conflict in Darfur: A Snapshot of Basic Education Services for Displaced Children
The Women's Refugee Commission partnered with the Population Council to provide a more accurate picture of the state of formal and non-formal education for displaced children of primary school age (6-14) in North and West Darfur. The findings in this repo