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Fast Tracking Girls' Education - Progress Report

Fast Tracking Girls' Education - Progress Report

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This report publishes new and heartening progress, showing the positive impact of the EFA FTI partnership on girls’ education. This report details how EFA FTI has underpinned improvements in girls’ education. The report also warns of the remaining challenges, and the continuing need for the global community’s sustained attention and financial commitment to basic education.

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Sonia Hossain on March 6, 2012

Crumbling Threats Against Archaeological Pursuits

Crumbling Threats Against Archaeological Pursuits

Written by Holly L. and Eoin Stewart, CEO of Obelisk International LLC There are hundreds of active archaeological sites around the globe and many of them are in places of civil and political unrest. From Libya to Iran, government and privately funded teams of researchers and archaeologist are working to preserve and uncover history. As many of these people are not nationals of the home country in which they are working in this could lead them to be placed in serious risk of harm and could more...

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Rachel A on June 13, 2011

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Private Sector and Enterprise Development

Private Sector and Enterprise Development

idl-bnc.idrc.ca –

This book is concerned with the context for private sector development (PSD) including micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs1), the PSD challenges and the relevant policy, institutional and research capacity, responses and needs in 12 MENA countries: Algeria (AG), Egypt (EG), Iraq (IQ), Jordan (JO), Lebanon (LE), Morocco (MA), Sudan (SD), Syria (SY), Tunisia (TN), Turkey (TR), the West Bank & Gaza (WB&G) and Yemen (YE), hereafter referred to as the MENA-12. The rationale for this more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 23, 2011

New Report: Fast-Tracking Girls' Education

educationfasttrack.org –

The Education for All Fast-Track Initiative (EFA FTI), the first ever global compact on education, has just released a report highlighting the critical importance of girls' education. The report details some of the positive impacts of the EFA FTI program, as well as challenges to come. FTI countries have seen rapid increases in the number of girls attending school, and the FTI model has reduced the number of girls that need to repeat a grade. However, there are still 67 more...

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Peter Bergen on March 3, 2011

Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms

Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms

milanmun.it –

What is the “Arms trade treaty”? It’s a multilateral treaty that is supposed to control the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons but it hasn’t been negotiated yet. The ATT, if properly implemented, is supposed to reduce the human cost associated with the proliferation of conventional weapons. It would ensure a higher standards of arms exporters and importers in order to have a more secure world. Controlling the legal trade of arms is important in order to stop the illicit more...

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D C on January 13, 2011

Leading by example: young Yemeni women teach their communities key skills

Leading by example: young Yemeni women teach their communities key skills

ruralpovertyportal.org –

"Two remarkable young women born in one of the driest, poorest countries in the world are showing their families and their communities the way out of poverty. Ibtsam and Sabah live in the Dhamar Governorate of Yemen, where up to 70 per cent of the population in highland villages lives on less than two dollars a day. Through a project supported by IFAD, both young women have acquired important new skills, enabling them to increase their incomes, earn the respect of their neighbours and take up more...

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Imran Uddin on June 23, 2010

Promoting school enrolment, attendance and retention among disadvantaged children in Yemen: the potential of conditional cash tranfers

Promoting school enrolment, attendance and retention among disadvantaged children in Yemen: the potential of conditional cash tranfers

ucw-project.org –

As part of the preparatory phase of BEEP II, the current paper reviews and assesses household-based incentives and inclusion measures to reduce numbers of out of school children, with a special emphasis on child workers. It looks in particular at three possible policy interventions: 1) provision of schooling incentives to children and families; 2) provision of remedial and inclusion modalities; and 3) introduction of flexible schooling hours and/or school calendar. For each, the paper looks more...

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gabriella breglia on February 17, 2010

Policy note on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on Arab States

In April 2009, a policy note was published by the ILO Regional Office for Arab States in Beirut, which reviews the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on Arab states until early 2009 and offers a number of policy considerations on employment and social protection policies. The policy note is available in Arabic and English. Behrendt, C.; Haq, T., and Kamel, N., 2009: The impact of the financial and economic crisis on Arab States: Considerations on employment and social more...

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Christina Behrendt on July 16, 2009

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