School Autonomy and Accountability

This study discusses the Child Protection Initiative (CPI) which was created in 2003 to encourage municipal authorities to take more action on the increase in vulnerable and disadvantaged children in urban areas in the Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region.

The report points out that in response to the continuing low access for girls and the global Education for All (EFA) declaration in 1990, five African women Ministers of Education initiated the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) to advocate and demonstrate ways to promote change. FAWE's overall goal is to increase female participation and performance at all levels of education in SSA.

There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of village education committees (VECs), consisting of village government leaders, parents, and teachers.

The report on children's work in Cambodia provides an overview of the child labor phenomenon in Cambodia - its extent and nature, its determinants, and its consequences on health and education. The report also addresses the national response to child labor and policy options for its elimination.

This paper looks at the private schooling sector in Pakistan, a country that is seriously behind schedule in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Using new data, the authors document the phenomenal rise of the private sector in Pakistan and show that an increasing segment of children enrolled in private schools are from rural areas and from middle-class and poorer families. The key element in their rise is their low fees-the average fee of a rural private school in Pakistan is less than a dime a day (Rs.6).

The proposed amendments to the Technical Education, vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVET) Development Program Support Project will: Recognize in the Project Description that the training fund (TEVET fund) will support training programs, and TEVET investments; Modify the implementation arrangements, in view if the dissolution of the former Program Coordination office, and mainstreaming of functions formerly performed by it into the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Vocational Training, and the parastatal TEVET authority; Introduce dated covenants relating to the revision of th

This handbook is intended to help decision makers in developing-country governments and donor agencies in their efforts to combine information and communications technologies (ICT) and teacher professional development (TPD). To the extent possible in a brief work, the handbook combines a global perspective-including information about best practices and successful projects-with attention to the challenges faced by education policymakers, teachers, and students in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and countries attempting to meet the goals of Education for All (EFA).

The Sri Lankan education system has followed the classical recipe of development policy in two important respects. First, it has emphasized the importance of public financing and provision of basic education and secondary education to the entire population. This visionary emphasis, commencing in the 1930s and 1940s, was generations ahead of its time. Second, Sri Lanka limited public resources devoted to tertiary education, awarding emphasis to the basic and secondary cycles.

Organized in over 60 World Bank offices on or about March 21, 2005, more than a thousand young people visited Bank offices worldwide for informal discussions, activities, and presentations on the Bank's mission and the Bank's specific work in their country. The youth open house provided a novel opportunity to extend the World Bank's policy dialogue with youth organizations beyond the global level to the country and local levels.

The Surabaya youth survey used a modified version of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey questionnaire to investigate knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning smoking among 1,630 students in 40 high schools in Madiun City, Malang City, Jember Regency and Bangkalan Regency in 2003. Factors which predispose, enable, and reinforce smoking were examined to identify where tobacco control interventions might be appropriate and effective. Female students showed an unexpectedly high smoking rate.