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Three years on- Rewrite the Future
Three years ago (2006) Save the Children launched the Rewrite the Future campaign to take action for children in conflict-affected countries. Save the Children's campaign to Rewrite the Future has surpassed its initial goal and reached more than 10 millio
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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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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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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
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School drop out: patterns, causes, changes and policies: Background paper for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2011- The hidden crisis: armed conflict and education
Policies to improve school progression and reduce the numbers of children dropping out of school are critical if Universal Primary Education (UPE) is to be achieved. This background paper for the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team draws on a range
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Continuity and respect for diversity: Strengthening early transitions in Peru
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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Accelerated learning programmes in conflict-affected fragile states
38 million children of primary school age are out of school in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS). In addition, millions of older children in CAFS have missed out on education because their experience of conflict has made it difficult for them to cop
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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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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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The Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Universal Access to Family Planning and Reproductive Health
The MDGs offer precise time-bound targets for promoting global development. MDG Target 5B calls for universal access to reproductive health care. By adding this target, world leaders reaffirmed that access to reproductive health care—including family plan
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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