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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results: Malawi- Year 1
In January 2009, Save the Children began Literacy Boost programming in Malawi, implementing both community and teacher focused interventions during a full school year.This report summarizes year one impact of Save the Children’s Literacy Boost innovation
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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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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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Gender Justice: Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
With the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 2015 target date fast approaching, discrimination and inequality are holding back progress on all of the Goals, which include gender equality and women’s empowerment, reducing hunger and poverty, achieving unive
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The Future is Now. Summary of Full Report
Every child has the right to education. We have seen a big drop in the number of primary-age children who cannot go to school – between 2006 and 2010 the global figure fell from 115 million to 72 million. That is an impressive achievement, but there’s sti
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Policy brief: Education – Quality matters
Good-quality education is crucial to getting and keeping children in school. Achieving quality education is also a legally binding obligation on governments.But unless issues of quality are addressed urgently, internationally agreed targets to achieve uni
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From rhetoric to results. Closing the global education gap for the world's girls and women
The Global Campaign for Education's report provides an action plan for closing the education gap for the world’s poorest girls and women.Throughout the last decade, significant progress has been made in increasing girls’ enrolment in primary education. Ho
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Increasing choice or inequality? Pathways through early education in Andhra Pradesh, India. Working Paper No. 58, Studies in Early Childhood Transitions- Bernard van Leer Foundation
This working paper is part of the Studies in Early Transitions series emerging from Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. It explores recent trends for children growing up in Andhra Pradesh, o
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results: Malawi, Year 2
In January 2009, Save the Children began Literacy Boost programming in Malawi, implementing both community and teacher focused interventions during a full school year. This report summarizes year two impact of Save the Children’s Literacy Boost innovation
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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
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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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Rewrite the Future Global Evaluation- Southern Sudan Midterm Country Report
Rewrite the Future is a global programme and campaign by Save the Children that aims to bring quality education to children in countries affected by conflict. The global evaluation seeks to investigate how Save the Children’s project level interventions h