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Endline Report of Early Literacy among Pre-school and Primary School Children in Gaza Province, Mozambique
In response to the increasing need to ensure that Mozambican children develop sound early literacy skills, Save the Children initiated the Early Literacy Project in Mozambique in 2008. The target population for the project was approximately 7,800 preschoo
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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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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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Where Peace begins: Education's role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding
Most people recognise instinctively the role of education in preventing conflict and in building peace and the dangers inherent in the abuse of education systems. Against this background, part of the purpose of this report is to set out- on the basis of S
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A study on violence against girls in primary schools and its impacts on girls education in Ethiopia
The primary focus of the study is on the situation of violence against girls in primary schools. This focus is determined by the strategic focus of Save the Children Denmark (SCD), which is access to quality primary education. As a means to assess the sit
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Donde Empieza la Paz- El papel de la educación en la prevención de conflictos y la construcción de la paz
Most people recognise instinctively the role of education in preventing conflict and in building peace, and the dangers inherent in the abuse of education systems. Against this background, part of the purpose of this report is to set out- on the basis of
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Briefing from Global Initiative to end all corporal punishment of children [June 2008]
This report provides supplementary information on Uganda's first periodic report on the implementation of the CRC Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC). The Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children s
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Early childhood education: questions of quality.
This edition of Early Childhood Matters seeks to focus attention on how quality early childhood programmes can lay the foundations for quality primary education. Among the articles there is an overview of the complex topic of "quality" in early childhood
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"I speak about me"- Alternative Report on Child Rights in Bangladesh- 2007
This report provides supplementary information on Bangladesh’s third and fourth periodic report on the implementation of the CRC. Twenty-five children’s organisations, with 12,225 children from 64 districts, participated in developing this report. The mai
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Mother Language First. Towards achieving EFA for Adivasi children in Bangladesh
The publication "Mother Language First" is a joint publication of the Khagrachari Hill District Council, Zabarang Kalyan Samity, and Save the Children. The publication highlights the importance and right of children to begin education in a language they s
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Bangladesh Program: Emergent and early grades reading assessment- Baseline report
Since 2007, Save the Children has been introducing program-focused early grade reading assessments in selected basic education programs.This report explores the validity of an early grades reading assessment in Bangla, and examines baseline reading abilit
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¿Equidad y calidad? Retos para la educación inicial y la primaria en Etiopía, India y Perú
Part of the "Studies in Early Transitions" series, this Working Paper draws on interviews and observations carried out as part of Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam based at the University o