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Human Rights Based Approach Development Toolkit Chapter 2: Human Rights and their Normative Elements in Development Planning
This chapter of the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) Development Toolkit -- a document that aims to help address the role of human rights in development -- looks at the full spectrum of the rights invoked by HRBA in relation to development, and fleshes out their concrete implications on the work...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
HRP at 40: what they say. A history of scientific achievement to advance sexual and reproductive health
This report gives an overview of the last 40 years of work carried out by HRP, the Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, which was established in 1972, following a World Health Assembly resolution. HRP aims to advance sexual and reproductive health. The...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2012 | EN
Innovation: Applying knowledge in development
This report outlines the role that science, technology and innovation can play in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It draws from lessons learned over the past five decades, and describes actions needed to help achieve the MDGs through technological innovation, including...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January, 2005 | EN
A new face of education: bringing technology into the classroom
This report gives an overview of education challenges facing the developing world and discusses the technologies available to address them. It aims to provide guidance to decision-makers designing, implementing or investing in education initiatives. The report focuses on the potential of recent...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2012 | EN
Good coastal management practices in the Pacific
This report presents 17 case studies of good practice in coastal management across island territories of the Asia-Pacific region. These illustrate examples of locally tailored, evidence-based and cost-effective actions at a local, provincial, national and regional level. For each case study --...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2011 | EN
Inquiry-Based Science Education: Increasing Participation of Girls in Science in sub-Saharan Africa
This booklet, published by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), aims to inform policymakers about how Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) -- an educational tool that uses learners' experiences for practical teaching -- can encourage girls to participate in science and mathematics. It...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2011 | EN
Girls into Science: A Training Module on Motivating Girls to Embark on Careers in Science and Technology
This training manual aims to help science educators, career advisers and school staff to encourage more girls to pursue science and technology (S&T) careers in Africa. Specific objectives include promoting a positive image of women in science, making educators aware of gender stereotypes related to...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2007 | EN
Facing the Facts: Women's Participation in Science, Engineering and Technology
This report presents gender-differentiated statistical data on higher education student enrolments and graduations, human resources for science and technology (S&T), publication output, funding allocation, and scientific ratings given to individual researchers by the National Research Foundation...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2009 | EN
The impact of globalization on higher education and research in the Arab state
These selected proceedings from a regional research seminar in Morocco, hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), examine the state of higher education in Arab states. They highlight the impact of globalisation on local systems and discuss the role of funding...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2007 | EN
African higher education development and the international community
This paper from the Association of Commonwealth Universities outlines the commitments and activities made by major international partners -- specifically the G8 countries -- to developing African higher education between 2000 and 2004. Projects are analysed by topic -- from human resources...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2005 | EN
Beyond the ABCs: Higher education and developing countries
This paper, written by researchers at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Columbia in the United States, examines various aspects of higher education in developing countries including its impact on economic development. The authors discuss the growing demand for higher education in developing...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2008 | EN
Constructing knowledge societies: New challenges for tertiary education
This World Bank report describes the role higher education plays in building developing countries' capacity to participate in a knowledge-based world economy and outlines policy options to promote economic development. It confirms the shift in the World Bank's attitude to education support as a...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2002 | EN
Accelerating catch-up: Tertiary education for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
This World Bank report examines higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa, asking how it can stimulate economic growth in the region. Drawing on international experience and regional case studies, the authors argue that there is an urgent need for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to invest in human...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2009 | EN
What donors should do
This opinion article highlights the need for donors to support higher education in poor countries. The authors, Jos H. C. Walenkamp and Ad Boeren from the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education, discuss how higher education and research can reduce poverty. They...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2007 | EN
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