'Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world, and, despite indisputable improvements in getting more children into school in the last two decades, the goal of guaranteeing a quality education for all Malian children by 2015 is still far off.
Nearly 900,000 Malian children aged seven to 12 are out of school, most of them girls. Moreover, those children that are in school often get a poor education because of large classes, poor infrastructure, lack of materials, and, in particular, a la more...
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This month's issue of the e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 10 program resources with Web links, and 17 journal article summaries on research from China, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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The cost of education to households is widely recognized as one of the major barriers to equitable access to education. In the present context of the global economic and financial crisis, increased vigilance should be given to supporting poor households in keeping their children in school and governments in enhancing poverty reduction strategies. School fee abolition lies at the core of these efforts. The School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI) was launched in 2005 by UNICEF and the World Bank (a more...
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'UIL has played an important role in the international Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of Non-formal and Informal Learning (RVA) agenda since 2004, when UNESCO’s General Conference entrusted UIL with conducting and disseminating research and practice on RVA, on an international scale.
The Synthesis Report on Recognition, Validation and Accreditation is a collation of the UIL (formerly UIE) survey of recognition, validation and certification policy, practice and challenges in 36 c more...
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'Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world, and, despite indisputable improvements in getting more children into school in the last two decades, the goal of guaranteeing a quality education for all Malian children by 2015 is still far off.
Nearly 900,000 Malian children aged seven to 12 are out of school, most of them girls. Moreover, those children that are in school often get a poor education because of large classes, poor infrastructure, lack of materials, and, in particular, a la more...
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'This article explores the notion of 'troublesome' masculinities that characterise much of the policy thinking on problems of young men and gender. It notes that the socialisation of young men and the relationship between gender norms and young men's gender identity have become the focus of policy development in an increasing number of countries. While recognising that much effective work is being done with men and boys to promote alternative 'gender-equitable masculinities', the article reminds more...
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'This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries. The authors, using a cross-sectional analysis of data from Namibia, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe – countries that participated in the Global School-based Student Health Survey in 2003 or 2004 – compared the relative frequency of several a more...
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