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and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … school children. In 2022, the Empowering Women by Balancing the Law (EWBL) initiative of the Legal Vice Presidency of the …
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The Government of Tajikistan has identified improving maternal and child health (MCH) as key priorities in its new Health Sector Strategy for 2010-2020. The Government recognizes that improving MCH outcomes is critical to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for maternal and child...
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This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical...
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of the 2009 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund (UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood …-five children. Two main issues are highlighted by this study. Firstly, the quality of primary health care services provided to … children is lacking in many areas, irrespective of the PHC provider's type of training. Second, is that the family medicine and …
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Maternal health remains one of the top priorities of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) because reductions in maternal mortality have been slows. The current Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) for Indonesia is 228 but with existing programs and interventions the...
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Children need a safe, nurturing, healthy, and stimulating environment to thrive and reach their full potential. But … millions of children living in poverty don't receive enough stimulation or good nutrition in their first years of life, and … addressed in programs promoting young children's development, which also typically focus on mothers, with little attention on …
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This Handbook for Literacy Lesson Planning is designed to be used as a resource for education stakeholders seeking to design evidence-aligned early grade literacy programs. It describes the different subskills involved in learning to read, outlines best classroom practices for each subskill, and...
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Ratings for the Early Childhood Development Project are as follows: Outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Quality of monitoring and evaluation was modest. This assessment offers the following lessons: (1) Collaboration, strong national...
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The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …, illnesses, and disabilities, while improving children's growth, and development. IMCI's three main components are to: improve …
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care when needed. Children whose health is protected and nurtured have a better chance of enrolling in school, learning … measures, including regular health care visits for babies and young children and enrolling children in school. The transfers … may be conditional, meaning families get the money if they take children for regular check-ups or enroll them in school …
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