Education Publications

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.

Making The Grade

A model national policy for the prevention, management and elimination of violence against girls in school.

Violence Against Girls At School - Towards Sustainable Strategies

Sub-regional workshop, 1-3 December, Saly, Senegal.

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.

Confronting the Contradictions

How the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund are forcing poor countries to either freeze, or seriously curtail, spending on teachers.

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.

Cancelling The Caps (04.11.2006)

Why the Education For All movement must confront wage bill caps now.

Girl Power (14.08.2006)

The impact of girls’ education on HIV and sexual behaviour

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.

Writing the Wrongs (10.11.2005)

International benchmarks on adult literacy

Deadly Inertia 2005 (01.11.2005)

A cross-country study of educational responses to HIV/AIDS

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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