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Breakneck Expansion and Quality Assurance in Ethiopian Higher Education: Ideological Rationales and Economic Impediments
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September 27, 2015

The rapid quantitative growth of higher education in Ethiopia has triggered considerable concern for quality. This paper analyses why expanding the higher education subsector took precedence over quality against the backdrop of the current Ethiopian political discourse. The article argues that the growing public demand due to globalization and the changed local realities, the ideology… Read more

Access, Ethiopia, Higher Education
How effective are different approaches to higher education provision in increasing access, quality and completion for students in developing countries? Does this differ by gender of students?
Document Library
September 21, 2015

This review focuses on how to effectively increase access to and quality in higher education in developing countries. 175 research papers on the impact of higher education policies and methods of provision on access, quality and gender issues in developing countries, available in English language, were systematically reviewed. The majority of the studies fell into… Read more

Access, Approaches, Higher Education, Quality
Low fee private schooling in India – More questions than answers? Observations from the Young Lives longitudinal research in Andhra Pradesh
Document Library
June 4, 2015

This paper seeks to draw attention to two important, but less researched, areas regarding low fee private school provision in India. Firstly, the paper evaluates the impact of fees on household debt burden and decision-making, and secondly highlights the dynamic interplay between the private and government sub-sectors and the potential consequences this may have for… Read more

Access, Children, inclusive education
Education
Improving Education Quality, Equity and Access: A Report on Findings from the Young Lives School Survey (Round 1) in Ethiopia
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October 20, 2014

This paper presents key findings from Young Lives school survey in Ethiopia conducted in 2009–10, contextualised by cross-sectional evidence from the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. The findings suggest that educational exclusion operates through complex mechanisms which conspire to limit the access opportunities of disadvantaged children during the course of the education life-cycle. Exclusion is… Read more

Access, Education
Education
Health
Nutrition
Mexico’s Model Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program for Fighting Poverty
Document Library
October 16, 2014

This feature story highlights Mexico’s exemplary poverty fighting program, Oportunidades, which used results-based financing methods for a decade to help 25% of the population improve their health, nutrition and educational status. Research documenting the program’s results shows how using CCTs raised incomes and changed behavior.

Access, Education, Health, health financing, Poverty
Education
Public Private Partnerships in Education
Helpdesk Report
July 19, 2011

Primary school enrolments inPakistan have improved significantly in the last few years and private schooling in particular has become very popular. There is a demand for private sector education as parents consider it as ‘better’ and not necessarily due to the lack of public schools. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education have stepped in to improve… Read more

Access, Education, Pakistan, Private, Public, Public-Private Partnerships, Quality, School
Education
Barriers to Enrolment in Kenya
Helpdesk Report
June 18, 2011

This report addresses the reasons why children are out of school in Kenya.  It includes sections on: Proportions of children affected by different barriers to education ILO report on access to education in Kenya Surveys Related information Resources on barriers to education Some proportional statistics on barriers to enrolment were found from differing sources. UNICEF… Read more

Access, Barriers, Cost, Disability, Distance, Education, Enrolment, Fees, Funding, Kenya, Opportunity Costs, Patriarchal, Poverty, Quality, School
Health
Pro-Poor Health Delivery
Helpdesk Report
April 4, 2011

Information on pro-poor health policies does not fit neatly into mutually exclusive categories and many of the themes overlap. For example, universal coverage interventions such as abolishing user fees were often discussed as pro-poor targeting. Universal targeting can appear to be targeting the poor but it may be that the less poor are paying for… Read more

Access, Africa, Availability, Community, Financing, Health Services, Incentives, India, Participation, Private, Pro-Poor, Public, Targeting, Universal
Health
Civil society at the centre of HIV responses: Lessons from the DFID Programme Management Office, India
Helpdesk Report
January 8, 2009

HLSP REPORT: This paper explores the wider lessons emerging from the National AIDS Control Programme Phase II in India, and how the overall approach, management and commissioning processes contributed to its success.

Access, HIV/AIDS, India
Health
Health and Development: Global update
Helpdesk Report
January 8, 2009

HLSP REPORT: The global update is intended as a reference guide to the key events and activities of the last six months in the health and development arena.  

Access, HIV/AIDS
Health
Scaling-up ITN access and use in sub-Saharan Africa:Estimated LLIN requirements and coverage outcomes based on the global delivery strategy mix
Helpdesk Report
October 1, 2008

HRC REPORT: This report presents the relative cost-effectiveness of scaling-up delivery of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN). It concludes that there is currently unrealistic optimism on the levels of access to LLINs and their use that can be achieved within the next few years, and on the numbers of LLINs needed to reach these targets…. Read more

Access, Africa, Malaria
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