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UNAIDS Inter Agency Task Team on Education
An Integration of Perspectives from Ministries
of Education and Civil Society Organizations. A new report has just been published. It documents the outcomes of the first international survey of education sector readiness to manage and mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS.
Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity - A Matter of Policy
Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H.
The New England Journal of Medicine
Volume 354:2527-2529
June 15, 2006
Number 24
Everyone knows that American children are becoming fatter, but not everyone agrees on the cause. Many of today’s children routinely consume more calories than they expend in physical activity, but this imbalance results from many recent changes in home, school, and neighborhood environments. Concerned about the health and economic costs of childhood obesity, in 2004 Congress asked the Centers (...)
Food. WebQuest
Designed by Juan Díaz Soriano
A WebQuest for Primary 2nd Cycle (English)
Literacy for Life! New initiative to help 771 million adults who can’t read
Last night, UNESCO’s Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura launched the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE), which is designed to accelerate literacy efforts in the 34 countries that are home to 85% of the world’s illiterates. Literacy is one of UNESCO’s three priority areas for the 2006-2007 biennium. The other two are Teacher Training and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education.
QUEST- Quality Education for Social Transformation
QUEST’s overall goal is to improve the performance of children in primary schools in Africa, paying specific attention to barriers facing girls. Its focus is on the learning, practice, and mastery of literacy at primary school by poor children in rural areas.
Re-Mission video game and online community of young people with cancer
Re-Mission is a challenging, 3D "shooter" with 20 levels that takes the player on a journey through the bodies of young patients with different kinds of cancer. Players control a nanobot named Roxxi who destroys cancer cells, battles bacterial infections, and manages realistic, life- threatening side effects associated with the disease.
Sex Lessons. Video
An extract from the TV documentary Sex Lessons in which teenagers and education professionals examine the merits of teaching about contraception using a board game
State of the World’s Mothers 2005. The Power and Promise of Girls’ Education
Save the Children
The report finds that no matter what the economic or cultural challenges, there is a strategy that can work to get girls into school and help them stay there. It shows how schooling girls benefits individuals and has a dramatic ripple effect that can change the course of a nation.
Strategies for addressing management of Growing up and sexual maturation among girls and boys and menstruation practices in primary schools in Nairobi and Bondo districts in Kenia
Forum for African Women Educationalists, Kenya Chapter (FAWEK)
Some recent research findings in Kenya (Mugenda 2000, Mati 2000, Kariuki et al 2000) have identified sexual maturation (and related issues) as having a major impact on school attendance and performance.
The Maasai Girls Education Fund
The Maasai Girls Education Fund was created to improve the literacy, health, and economic well-being of Maasai women in Kenya through education.
Using social transfers to scale up equitable acces to education and health services
By Katie Chapman
This paper provides background analysis to support a DFID Policy
Division Briefing Note on Using Social Transfers to Improve Human
Development produced by the Scaling up Services team in collaboration
with the Social Protection team, part of a series of briefing notes on
social protection. This work complements DFID’s Practice Paper Social
Transfers and Chronic Poverty (2005). It also forms one part of DFID’s
Scaling up Services team’s workstream on promoting equitable access to
health and education services.
Visible Body. 3D Human Anatomy
Espacio en Internet para el aprendizaje de la anatomía humana. Recurso didáctico para descubrir el cuerpo humano como no lo habíamos visto nunca antes
Youth Peer Education Toolkit
The Youth Peer Education Toolkit is a group of resources designed to help program managers and master trainers of peer educators. Collectively, these tools should help develop and maintain more effective peer education programs. The five parts of the toolkit are based on research and evidence from the field as well as local examples and experiences. They are designed to be adapted locally as needed. The toolkit resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International. It was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA.
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