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Critically analysing assumptions is a much needed endeavour in international development policy and practice: existing management tools rarely encourage critical thinking and there are considerable political, organisational and bureaucratic constraints to the promotion of learning throughout the sector. The Theory of Change approach – an increasingly popular management tool and discourse in development – hopes to change some of that. This approach explicitly aims to challenge and change...
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The Methodological Guidelines provide methods for carrying out a comprehensive analysis of the education sector in developing countries. Volume 1 of the guidelines discusses the context for the development of the education sector, enrollment, internal efficiency, out-of-school children, cost and financing, quality, system capacity and management, external efficiency and equity.
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See pie charts, graphs, and more from UNESCO's report on Worldreader's users. Study conducted in partnership with Nokia.
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This study investigates the impacts of electronic media on academic performance of female students in university of agriculture Peshawar Pakistan using questionnaire as a tool for obtaining data while Frequencies distribution of data was conducted to know comprehensively about data layout. It targeted 152 female students between 20 to 25 years age. The study recorded the respondent’s consumption patterns, level of viewing, preferred channels, favorite...
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Millions of children are excluded from school because of poverty, gender and where they live. Closing the gap is vital if we are to achieve Education for All. Data from the Initiative on Out-of-School Children explains: on.unesco.org/oosci-global
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It has for some time been widely recognised that some fiscal transfers to Local Government Authorities (LGAs) are very unevenly distributed – in particular government recurrent transfers, most notably those for the payment of salaries, Personal Emoluments (PE). The objective of this study is to analyse progress, achievements and challenges of the current strategies for addressing inequalities of recurrent grant allocations across LGAs.
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We often think that all women are in some way subjected to gender-based discrimination, and indeed, there is wealth of evidence to support this belief. The same can be said about ethnic minorities and other social groups—indigenous peoples, refugees, sexual minorities, the poor, immigrants, and people living with HIV/AIDS—who may ...
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This study focuses on the socio-cultural and institutional factors that affect female teacher deployment in rural primary schools in Nigeria. In Kwara State, there are extreme imbalances in teacher distribution between rural and urban areas due to female teachers’ active avoidance and/or attrition from rural posts. Given these problems, this article discusses an innovative use of the Capability Approach that informed a rural teacher deployment policy that addressed a number of issues that...