Browsing by Subject "Uganda"
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Conflict-sensitive and risk-informed planning in education : Lessons learned
(IIPE, 2017)Worldwide, one in six school-age children are affected when a country experiences conflict and protracted crises such as war, disasters, and public health emergencies. One in three of the world’s 121 million out-of-school ... -
Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect Against Sexual Violence? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2017)Sexual violence against women and girls is widespread globally. In their lifetime, one in three women will experience intimate partner physical or sexual violence and 7 per cent will experience forced sex by someone other ... -
Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools
(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2018-05)In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop out before reaching the ... -
Global Citizenship Concepts in Curriculum Guidelines of 10 Countries : Comparative Analysis
(UNESCO, 2017-04)This paper reports on a study of concepts associated with the new construct of global citizenship education (GCED) in school curricula. We compared the national school curricula of ten countries with markedly different ... -
Global Citizenship Concepts in the Curricula of Four Countries
(UNESCO, 2017-11)This report details the presence of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) concepts in the education systems of four countries: Cambodia, Colombia, Mongolia and Uganda. It highlights the main findings of eight reports: four ... -
Global Teacher Status Index 2018
(Varkey Foundation, 2018)This Global Teacher Status Index survey in 2018 (GTSI 2018) went to 35 countries (instead of 21 countries as in 2013) and administered a questionnaire to over 1,000 members of the public in each country. Specifically, they ... -
Provider absence in schools and health clinics
(Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, HEC Montreal, 2004)This paper presents comparable national estimates of provider absence at primary schools and primary health centers in six countries. It relies on new data drawn from nationally representative samples of facilities using ... -
What do teachers know and do? Does it matter? : evidence from primary schools in Africa
(World Bank, 2017-01)School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, ...