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English proficiency assessments of primary and secondary teachers and students participating in English in Action. Study 3a
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October 6, 2014

Background This study has been designed to test students’ and teachers’ ability to speak in English as they progress through the English in Action (EIA) programme. For this reason, assessments of 543 teachers and 7,239 students were carried out in the initial months of the project’s implementation during February and March 2010, and were repeated… Read more

Bangladesh, Education
Education
An observation study of English lessons in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh. Baseline Study 3
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October 6, 2014

English is taught as a compulsory subject in Bangladeshi schools. However, while the national ‘English for Today’ curriculum stresses communicative use of the language, this does not appear to be effectively implemented. Baseline Study 3 examined the current classroom practices in English lessons, as the EIA interventions in the Primary and Secondary sectors will seek… Read more

Bangladesh, Education
Health
Increasing facility-based deliveries and providing referral transport for women in childbirth in Asia
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October 2, 2014

Approaches to increasing facility based births: Eliminating user fees and voucher schemes have been found to improve facility-based delivery rates. A systems approach was found to increase facility-based deliveries in the Philippines. The strategy prioritised the creation of community-based women’s health teams. Payment to a trained birth assistant within a health team incentivised referral to… Read more

Childbirth, emergency transport, south east asia
Nutrition
Nutrition interventions in developing and fragile contexts with a focus on community interventions and Yemen
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October 2, 2014

This was an extensive query to tackle in 3 days. The result is an annotated bibliography covering a selection of key papers identified through a rapid search on the different nutrition interventions. Section 2 includes a number of resources on community-based management with evaluations finding it to be cost effective. Sections 3-5 are on breastfeeding,… Read more

fragile states, nutrition interventions, Yemen
Education
Project appraisal document on a proposed credit to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh for a disability and children-at-risk project
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September 11, 2014

The objective of the proposed project is to expand the coverage, use, and quality of social care services for persons with disabilities and vulnerable children as a means of promoting equity and social inclusion.

Education
Education of children with disabilities in India. Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010
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September 11, 2014

The paper provides an in-depth and critical examination of efforts being undertaken under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) towards the education of children with disabilities. It concludes by attempting to bring together a range of disparate themes to suggest the fundamental dilemmas faced in planning and providing for children with disabilities and discusses ways of… Read more

Education
Inclusion in Vietnam: An intersectionality perspective on girls with disabilities and education
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September 11, 2014

This article explores the challenges related to the inclusion of girls with disabilities in Vietnamese schools. Building on fieldwork which interrogates the institutional treatment of girls with disabilities in the Vietnamese context, we suggest that there is a need to think more critically about the inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities within social and… Read more

Education
National Achievement Survey Class V
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September 11, 2014

National Achievement Surveys (NAS) are conducted under the Government’s flagship programme Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). NAS is designed to provide information about the learning achievement of students in the elementary sector of education in government and government-aided schools. This is achieved by administering standardized tests to students of Classes III, V and VIII. NAS also… Read more

A note on income and poverty of persons with disabilities in Metro Manila
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September 11, 2014

This chapter elaborates income and poverty related aspects of the analyses developed in the previous chapter. First, the differences in income level and poverty indices by disability are statistically examined. Second, determinants of income are singled out by estimation of the Mincer equation, which will be described shortly. Main conclusions are the followings: (1) the… Read more

Education
Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China
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September 11, 2014

The aim of this paper is to estimate the returns to education in the disable people in rural China in the past 20 years. The regression of Mincerian wage equation as the method is used, and the data is based on CHNS data in 1991-2009 survey. The results show that the education level has significant… Read more

Education
From unconscious to conscious inclusion: meeting special education needs in West China
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September 11, 2014

The authors map the route undertaken by the Project Management Office of the Gansu Basic Education Project (GBEP) in Gansu Province, China, in instituting measures to ensure good learning opportunities for children with special educational needs within the four poor counties benefiting from this DFID supported project. The main purpose of GBEP has been to… Read more

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