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This document is the second in a series of reports whose purpose is to review the progress of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region's education sector in implementing the African Union's Plan of Action for the Second Decade of...
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2012
The fact that the early years of life play a major role in children's development has been corroborated with increasing new evidence reviewed in the most recent Lancet Series in Child Development. Risk factors for poor development include poor...
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2012
Ministers of education meet biannually to take stock of the implementation of this Plan of Action and make decisions on how to address shortfalls and agree on strategic responses. This year's review falls in mid-decade, and hence it is important in...
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2009
Africa's education ministers established the African Union's (AU) Observatory at the Pan-African Institute of Education for Development (IPED) to provide a platform for monitoring and research on educational developments in Africa and to evaluate...
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2010
This executive summary reviews the main trends in the education sector of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) region in implementing the African Union's Plan of Action for the Second Decade of Education. AMU was founded in 1989 and currently comprises the...
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2011
This report reviews the main trends of and progress made by the East African Community (EAC) region's education sector in implementing the African Union's Plan of Action for the Second Decade of Education. The EAC currently has five members: Kenya,...
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Study
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2012
For the first time, Africa has a series of children's books developed by Africans to meet African challenges. Despite the young age of its target audience (3 - 8), the Bouba and Zaza series, "Childhood Cultures", freely examines serious subjects....
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Book
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2011
For the first time, Africa has a series of children's books developed by Africans to meet African challenges. Despite the young age of its target audience (3 - 8), the Bouba and Zaza series, "Childhood Cultures", freely examines serious subjects....
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Book
Year
2011
Literacy – the ability to read and write – is recognized as one of the most fundamental of core skills contributing to academic achievement, lifelong learning and sustainable development. In many African countries, however, literacy achievement in...
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Book
Year
2012
Under the agenda of Vision 2020, the Gambia offered increased access to early childhood development (ECD) through centers attached to lower basic schools, using an integrated approach that took into account health, nutrition, water and sanitation,...
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Book
Year
2012
