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Burma has the third highest number of landmine victims in the world, an estimated 1,500 people each year. Although 10 out of Burma's 14 States and Divisions are mine contaminated, the most heavily impacted are the eastern States and Divisions bordering Thailand. An estimated five million people live in townships that contain mine-contaminated areas. However,…
The Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education funds four LINCS Regional Professional Development Centers (RPDC). World Education manages the RPDC for Region 1: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands. The LINCS Region 1…
In the Kingdom of Jordan, the greater part of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for education was carried out externally through a quasigovernmental agency, the National Center of Human Resource Development (NCHRD). NCHRD is mandated to conduct evaluation studies for supporting the Jordanian Ministry of Education (MoE) and its educational programs and projects. Despite a well-structured…
Tanzania Tanzania’s youth population is extremely large, with more than half of the population roughly 23 million—under the age of 18. Approximately 10% of children in Tanzania have been orphaned (an estimated 40% of which are orphaned as a result of HIV and AIDS). 930,000 children have been classified as most vulnerable children (MVC). More…
Only about 15% of households in Laos have access to formal financial sources. Poor rural communities in Laos do not have access to secure and reliable financial services. Consequently, families are unable to make significant investments in developing their livelihoods, weather economic shocks, and save for the future. World Education Inc. and World Education Australia…
Required use of technologies have made more intense the pace of change in the workplace. In response, employers offer both staff training and more comprehensive educational opportunities to equip employee to success and advance. The EdTech Center @ World Education and the Literacy, Language, and Technology Research group (LLTR) at Portland State University are conducting…
In Nepal, roughly 11 percent of children have a disability, according to UNICEF estimates. Access to education for children with disabilities in the country often depends on their type of disability, rural or urban location, and language, and only a small percentage are estimated to have tailored learning support. LEARN – Leveraging Existing Accessibility Resources…
Go Girls Connect! is an innovative program that is using a mobile-based technology to build digital competency and empower girls with critical life skills, protective assets, and resources. In addition the program builds girls' skills to tackle negative gender norms and helps identify gender-based violence (GBV) survivors—particularly those at risk of dropping out of school—and…
In 2000, the Indonesian government began an effort to transfer the control, ownership, and responsibility for school assets from the central government to the districts and provinces. This decentralization is an important step toward local control of education for the world’s fourth-most populous nation. However, the process of decentralization creates many challenges for local government,…
The South India Girl Child Initiative seeks to expand existing efforts of four local NGOs that ameliorate the social, environmental, and economic conditions that impede girls' education and decrease girls' vulnerability to sexual exploitation and abusive forms of child labor in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu States. The end goals of the Initiative are to…
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