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An International Review of Plans and Actions for School Reopening
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November 20, 2020

This report is based on a rapid survey of recently published materials, guidance documents and media commentary. It summarises what we know and understand about the impacts of the prolonged school closures that followed the spread of Covid-19 and the context of school reopening and plans for learning recovery. The first chapter of this report… Read more

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Education
Gender
Health
Girl-Focused Life Skills Interventions at a Distance
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July 17, 2020

This rapid review explores the evidence and lessons learned about engaging girls in life skills interventions at a distance (i.e. through mobile, online, radio or other) both in emergency and nonemergency settings. The purpose of the review is to assist programmes in identifying relevant and effective ways to continue and build girls’ life skills remotely… Read more

COVID-19
Education
Gender
The Links Between Girls’ Life Skills Intervention in Emergencies and their Return to Education Post-crisis and Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies and Early Marriage
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July 17, 2020

This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence and lessons learned on the links between life skills interventions in emergency settings and the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and early marriage and return to education post crisis amongst adolescent girls. It seeks to enable learning from past emergencies to inform the design of effective support to adolescent… Read more

COVID-19
Education
Gender
Health
Nutrition
Social Protection
Water and Sanitation
The Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
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July 17, 2020

This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence on the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It aims to enable a greater understanding of the unique circumstances of women and girls in the region, which could assist with the provision of effective support throughout the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath…. Read more

COVID-19
Education
Careers and labour market information: an international review of the evidence
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July 19, 2019

Effective careers advice is impossible without good quality labour market information. Careers professionals and advisers, the people whose job it is to offer and support careers advice in the community or in schools, are key to success. Vital to their work is access and familiarity with a robust and sophisticated body of intelligence about the… Read more

careers, Labour market, labour market information
Water and Sanitation
Detailed Review of a Recent Publication: Rural Water Supply Systems Cannot Succeed with Community Management Alone
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September 18, 2017

The focus of this Policy Research Digest is on the viability of community management as the predominant model – and policy approach – of many countries in the global south. Based on a review of existing and recent literature Harold Lockwood sets out the argument that while community management may not be sufficient as the predominant, or… Read more

Community Management, Water Policy
Education
Literature review: youth agency, peacebuilding and education
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April 11, 2016

This literature review provides insights into youth agency and the dynamics of conflict and peace in conflict‐affected contexts. In particular it focuses on how educational interventions may contribute to enhancing the agency of youth as peacebuilders. In its key findings, the review highlights the need for: comprehensive understandings of youth agency for peacebuilding which will… Read more

Learning and teaching materials, peacebuilding, Youth
Education
The role and impact of philanthropic and religious schools in developing countries
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February 5, 2016

This report summarises the findings of a rigorous review on the role and impact of philanthropic and religious schools in developing countries. A prior review initially sought to cover all types of non-state schools, but was subsequently separated into two parts. The first reviewed the role and impact of private schools in developing countries. The… Read more

Education, Non-State Schools, philanthropic, religious schools
Education
The Political Economy of Education Systems in Conflict-Affected Contexts
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January 21, 2016

This report is a rigorous literature review on the political economy of education systems in conflict affected contexts. Political economy analysis is recognised as playing an important role in better understanding the obstacles to achieving the educational Millennium Development Goal. The challenges faced, in reduced access to schools and quality of education, are most acute in… Read more

conflict-affected states, Political Economy, rigorous review
Education
The impact of non-state schools in developing countries
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December 17, 2015

This report synthesises the findings from 2 rigorous literature reviews entitled: The role and impact of private schools in developing countries, and The role and impact of philanthropic and religious schools in developing countries. It aims to bring together and compare and contrast key findings from the 2 reviews, and to identify areas of research… Read more

Non-State Schools, Private Schools
Education
Education rigorous literature review: what works to promote children’s educational access, quality of learning, and wellbeing in crisis-affected contexts
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November 3, 2015

This study is a rigorous review of evidence found in the literature that shows which interventions promote educational access, quality of learning, and wellbeing among children who live in crisis-affected areas, and those in settings where a crisis has just ended. The primary goals of the study are threefold: (1) to assess the strength and quantity… Read more

Access to education, Children, crisis-affected countries, Education, quality learning
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