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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
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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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Free Education is a Right for Me. A Report on Free and Compulsory Primary Education
Quality education for all children is a worldwide commitment. This is evident from the large number of education and international laws and policies governing free and compulsory education that have been agreed upon by governments. Save the Children has
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Last in line, last in school- How donors are failing children in conflict-affected fragile states
This report reveals that despite donor pledges twenty out of twenty-two donor countries have, to date, failed to contribute their fair share of funds to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of all children being able to complete a full course of
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Resources for the Rights of the Child – Responsibility of States. Children's right to education: Measuring investments and outcomes in India
Paper submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the Day of General Discussion, on the theme: "Resources for the Rights of the Child- Responsibility of States. Childrens right to education: Measuring investments and outcomes in India". Th
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Think smart: Giving rural children access to basic education
This book is about Save the Children and the Amhara Regional Education Bureau’s approach to Alternative Basic Education (ABE) in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. Alternative Basic Education addresses the many obstacles rural children face when it comes to sch
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Let our children teach us! A review of the role of education and knowledge in disaster risk reduction
This review examines good practices to reduce disaster risk through education, knowledge, and innovation, and focuses on activity in education, public risk awareness, training and research in order to meet two new initiatives to achieve this goal: the Act
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Rewrite the Future: Education for Children in conflict-affected countries
Over 40 countries across the world launched Rewrite the Future, Save the Children's biggest global campaign in its 85-year history. The research reveals the devastating consequences of armed conflict on education in 30 countries. Schools are destroyed or
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Angola Country Briefing
Though Angola’s 27-year civil war ended in 2002, the country still ranks as one of the worst places for children to grow up.The debt-ridden government spends much of its budget on food and health, leaving little for education.Save the Children is working
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The State of the right to education worldwide- Free or fee: 2006 Global report
Primary education is the focus of the report because the original reasons for declaring it to be each child’s birthright remain unchanged. Eighty years ago, the rule that governments should make education free and compulsory had been extrapolated from the
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The Joy of Learning. Participatory lesson plans on hygiene, sanitation, water, health and the environment
This guide is mainly aimed at teachers and others who want to design participatory learning activities on hygiene and sanitation. It includes a theory section and lesson plans. The lesson plans are organized into three sections: hygiene, sanitation and wa
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Rewrite the future in Côte d'Ivoire, September 2006-2008
For the last decade, Côte d’Ivoire has experienced a socio-political crisis, which has had severe humanitarian consequences for children. Children’s enrollment and access to school have greatly declined, as did the quality of the education available due t