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From www.actionaid.org - an international anti-poverty agency which takes sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together. Research and Publications Education Action Welcome to the 24th edition of Education Action. The magazine brings news of innovative education work by ActionAid and other likeminded organisations. This issue contains articles on the recent UN conference on adult education (CONFINTEA VI), on work to promote girls' empowerment and stop violence against girls in schools, on the work of the GCE and the 1GOAL campaign to get all children into school, as well as updates on Reflect practice around the world. We hope you enjoy it.
Sustainable Strategies to End Violence Against Girls in Schools
For girls around the world, exercising their right to education is sometimes a very risky enterprise. While some strides have been made to enhance gender parity in education, little attention has been paid to some of the structural barriers that keep girls out of school, impede their performance in class as well as their overall retention.
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Making the grade
A model national policy for the prevention, management and elimination of violence against girls in school.
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Violence against girls at school - towards sustainable strategies
Sub-regional workshop, 1-3 December, Saly, Senegal
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The need for quality teachers to achieve EFA: Building strategic partnerships between teachers’ unions and NGOs (13.11.2007)
We call on all teachers’ unions and NGOs to deepen dialogue and cooperation. We hope that this paper helps to map out some of the ways in which this can be done. (pdf 140kb)
Confronting the Contradictions
(04.2007)
How the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund are forcing poor countries to either freeze, or seriously curtail, spending on teachers.
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Education Rights: A Guide for Practitioners and Activists
(04.2007)
This resource guides people working at local and national levels around the world in taking on a rights-based approach to education (rather than a service delivery/needs-based approach).
The pack is structured in six sections, in which there are practical ideas and examples of work at local and national level. It draws on practical experiences from over 20 countries and benefited from the advice of the late Katarina Tomasevski (former UN Speical Rapporteur on the Right to Education), to whom the pack is dedicated.
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Writing the Wrongs - Abuja Call for Action (16.02.2007)
In order to make the case for renewed commitment and investment there is an urgent need for governments to take new action on adult literacy. The document calls for action to “write the wrongs” in the field of adult literacy – reversing decades of under-investment, and transforming policy and practice to develop effective programmes.
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2006
Cancelling The Caps (04.11.2006)
Why the Education For All movement must confront wage bill caps now.
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Girl Power (14.08.2006)
The impact of girls’ education on HIV and sexual behaviour
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Forging a Global Movement (01.07.2006)
New education rights strategies for the United States and the world. The research, networking and advocacy planning process brought education advocates, analysts and scholars together for a roundtable discussion as a first step towards building international solidarity for an education rights agenda.
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Financing for development: scaling up or chanching course? (22.05.2006)
Statement Issued by Civil Society Organisations Attending the Financing for Development Meeting Held in Abuja from 21-22 May, 2006. Preamble.
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2005
Writing the Wrongs (10.11.2005)
International benchmarks on adult literacy
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Deadly Inertia 2005 (01.11.2005)
A cross-country study of educational responses to HIV/AIDS
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Contradicting commitments (01.09.2005)
How the achievement of Education for All is undermined by the IMF. This report intends to demonstrate the IMF's role in constraining countries from increasing public expenditure in education in order to meet the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals.
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