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Mother tongue education improves literacy in Uganda
Provision of teacher support and educational resources produced in local languages can lead to large learning gains in rural, under-resourced and overcrowded classrooms.
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Research for policy and practice
Research for quality teaching
This collection of ESRC-DFID-funded research explores the process of teaching, and the factors that make good quality teaching.
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Making safe abortion a reality in Zambia
Ground-breaking research is helping to raise awareness and shape frameworks to ensure women can take up their right to access safe abortion services.
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Engaging communities in rebuilding post-typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines
Researchers at the University of Nottingham, UK and Ningbo, China in partnership with the University of the Philippines, Diliman have worked closely with local communities to articulate the lessons from Typhoon Yolanda.
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IDS Bulletin
Accountability for health equity
Explores three principal themes: the nature of accountability politics ‘in time’; contested politics of ‘naming’ and measuring accountability; shifting nature of power in global health and new configurations of health actors, social contracts, and role of technology.
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Building peace in the new oil frontiers of Northern Kenya
Oil has brought foreign investment to Northern Kenya in an area inhabited by pastoralists. Researchers have enabled different parties to navigate a sensitive process for future oil development.
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Research for policy and practice
Women's life choices
Research evidence that explores women and girls' mobility constraints; barriers to healthcare; and the significance of education systems in enhancing their economic opportunities and career choices.
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Keeping African girls in school with better sanitary care
For young girls in developing countries, not knowing how to manage their periods can hinder access to education. Research demonstrates that in rural Uganda, providing free sanitary products to girls' may increase their school attendance.
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Research for policy and practice
Disability and education
A collection of ESRC–DFID funded research which provides new evidence on what governments must consider in order to ensure that children with disabilities benefit from quality education without discrimination or exclusion.
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Improving rural lives through the Liberian motorbike boom
In regions previously affected by conflict, such as Liberia, the transport sector has provided jobs for ex-combatants as well as much needed access to health care, schools, and markets.
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Reducing teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone
Research directly involving teenagers and their families in Sierra Leone to reduce teenage pregnancy has helped pave the way for a new community-friendly Child and Family Welfare Policy.
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Reducing school dropout rates in Malawi and Lesotho
‘School in a bag’, buddy systems and catch-up clubs have paved the way for improved learning and reduced dropout in schools in Malawi and Lesotho
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