Using the available data, this report gathers and analyzes all the information to assess the health system performance and equity. In the last decades progress has been recorded in all the sectors, but...
This report presents the proceedings of the "First Regional Conference on Secondary Education in Africa", organized by the World Bank in June 2003 and hosted by the Uganda Ministry of Education. The conference...
This report presents the proceedings of the "First Regional Conference on Secondary Education in Africa", organized by the World Bank in June 2003 and hosted by the Uganda Ministry of Education. The conference...
This Note is a partial stocktaking of the impact of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative on the education and health sectors. A complete examination would focus on three areas; first, changes...
This report reviews gender issues in HIV/AIDS projects being developed or implemented in five African countries (Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone). It was produced as a joint collaboration...
Africa's outcome shall be determined by its most precious resource: the African people. However, economic growth alone, will not reduce the continent's poverty. Thus educating youth, enhancing disease...
Africa's outcome shall be determined by its most precious resource: the African people. However, economic growth alone, will not reduce the continent's poverty. Thus educating youth, enhancing disease...
This study describes the emerging consensus about training finance largely on the basis of experiences in Latin America and Asia. The paper tests this consensus against findings from Sub-Saharan Africa...
Africa must replace a reliance on natural resources, with a flexible educated, and healthy workforce; but in making this transition, its greatest challenges will be in improving, and expanding educational...
The study examines the preschool programs - the predominant model found in the two countries - of early childhood care, and development (ECCD), in the comparatively wealthy country (by African standards)...
The key role of textbooks, and other written training materials play in enhancing the quality of education is universally recognized. This role is especially important in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where...
The key role of textbooks, and other written training materials play in enhancing the quality of education is universally recognized. This role is especially important in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where...
Secondary education holds a privileged position in all education systems. placed between. In most African countries, however, secondary education is facing three common problems: inadequate infrastructures...
Africa must replace a reliance on natural resources, with a flexible educated, and healthy workforce; but in making this transition, its greatest challenges will be in improving, and expanding educational...
Too often, policy for vocational education in developing countries has only concerned itself with a literate minority within the labor force. This study helps to widen that view. From the perspective of...
Sustainable economic development, and social progress in Africa will always be elusive, unless its people are educated, healthy, and secure enough to contribute to, and benefit from economic growth. In...
While Africa has some of the world's strongest communities, service delivery tends to take place through functionality, and physically remote government structures. Despite important reforms that have...
The study examines the preschool programs - the predominant model found in the two countries - of early childhood care, and development (ECCD), in the comparatively wealthy country (by African standards)...
An enhanced version of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative was put in place in September 1999 to amplify and accelerate the process of bringing down debtor countries' external debt...
Despite the many positive impacts of adult basic education, support for ABE programs (including from the World Bank) has been relatively modest over the last two decades. The reasons for this are the concerns...