| APEID Framework of Action 8th Programme Cycle 2008-2013 |
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Bangkok, UNESCO, 2008. 34 p.
This document provides a critical review of the 7th Programme Cycle (2002-2007) of the Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) and outlines a framework of action for the current 8th Cycle (2008-2013). It reflects changes in structure, programmes and activities in response to the developing needs and demands of UNESCO’s Member States and APEID’s partners and adjustments APEID has made in planning and programming to match the United Nations and the UNESCO Education sector reforms. - Download the PDF in English
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| Aportes para la enseñanza de la lectura [Contributions to the Teaching of Reading] |
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Santiago, Chile, OREALC/UNESCO, 2009, 134 p.
This book identifies the principal strengths and weaknesses of students in third and sixth grades, using elements of curricula familiar to the region and to teachers as well as new examples, with a view to identifying gaps in learning, proposals and conclusions set against other research. - Download the PDF in Spanish
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| Case study: Honduras |
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UNESCO, 2008. 46 p.
This background paper for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 aims to describe in broad outline how the EFA initiative, the main effort for coordination between the Government and the community of cooperating partners in the education sector, has been implemented in Honduras. It analyses the dynamics of ownership, harmonization, alignment and capacity development, using examples to illustrate them in the most concrete way possible - Dowload the PDF in English
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| Contribution of higher education and research to Education for All (EFA) |
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UNESCO, 2008. 58 p.
What contribution does higher education make to the Education for All (EFA) goals is the premise of this background paper prepared for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009: Overcoming inequality: why governance matters. It touches on topics such as the indigenization of education development and the role of universities as intellectual leaders. - Download the PDF in English
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| Desafios da universidade na sociedade do conhecimento - [Challenges of the university in a knowledge society] |
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Brasilia, UNESCO, 2008. 46 p.
Part of the UNESCO Forum Occasional Paper Series - Download the PDF in Portuguese
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| Education Sector Engagement with the AIDS and AID Funding Architecture at Country Level |
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UNESCO/UNAIDS, 2008. 47 p.
This is a report presented at the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education Symposium in Geneva, 2008. It discusses the challenges of funding of education sector activities for HIV in the financial crisis. - Download the PDF in English
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| Effective learning (Good policy and practice in HIV & AIDS and education) |
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UNESCO, 2008. 32 p.
Understanding that only local solutions will solve local challenges, this series aims to pull together a variety of programmatic and policy experiences from different regions that can be drawn upon when addressing community, district or national HIV and AIDS education needs. This booklet addresses educational practices in formal and non-formal learning environments. - Download the PDF in English
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| Etudes de cas par pays: Burkina Faso |
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UNESCO, 2008. 32 p.
Paper prepared for the Global Monitoring Report on Education for All 2009 - Overcoming inequality: the importance of governance, the main purpose of this case study for Burkina Faso is to act as a critical examination of procedures put in place by the Government and donors to improve aid effectiveness in the field of basic education, and to examine what remains to be done to eliminate barriers to progress. - Download the PDF in French
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| Governance and education inequality in Bangladesh |
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UNESCO, 2008. 19 p.
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in increasing education access in the last 20 years. However, substantial inequalities in educational attainment remain even though equity in education is a central government objective. The paper argues that weaknesses in education sector governance are crucial to understanding these persistent inequalities. - Download the PDF in English
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| Initiation à l'intégration pédagogique des TIC: guide du formateur |
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UNESCO, 2008. 36 p.
For information technology and communication (ICT) to be used effectively, the teacher must consider them as an integral part of his teaching and general pedagogy. This book, produced in cooperation with the Ministry of Basic Education of Cameroon, seeks to empower principals and teachers by giving them the principal tools necessary for the integration of ICT into teaching. - Download the PDF in French
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| La parentalité à l’ère du numérique |
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Rabat, UNESCO, 2009. 25 p.
This guide covers the main principles of the exercise of parenting in the digital age and provides a series of tips and solutions to guide the actions of parents and educators on a daily basis. The growth of the Internet in Morocco in recent years has been real progress in the country towards progress and development. The new environment cybermédiatique of children, if accompanied by new challenges effectively, does not fundamentally alter the role of parents. - Download the PDF in French
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| Partnerships in practice |
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UNESCO, 2008. 48 p.
This booklet aims to contribute to improved understanding of partnerships, including what they can achieve as well as challenges to effective partnerships. It focuses on partnerships in HIV & AIDS and education and draws on a range of global, regional and national experiences. - Download the PDF in English
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| Regional Overview: East Asia and the Pacific |
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UNESCO, 2008. 19 p.
This Global Monitoring Report regional overview for East Asia and the Pacific reveals that, while the region as a whole continues to advance on most EFA goals, wide disparities between and within countries are holding back overall progress. - Download the PDF in English
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| School monitoring systems and their impact on disparities |
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UNESCO, 2008. 37 p.
This background paper explores the relationship between school monitoring systems and EFA objectives with attention placed mainly on the role played by the school supervision
or inspection system, one of the key monitoring tools used by most governments. Other monitoring devices – such as examination and test systems, school “league tables” or school self-evaluation reports – are also considered. - Download the PDF in English
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| The EFA Fast Track Initiative: An Assessment of the Responsiveness of Endorsed Education Sector Plans to HIV and AIDS |
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UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education, 2008. 35 p.
This report is the second assessment of the responsiveness to HIV of Education Sector Plans which have been appraised and endorsed by the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI). This second assessment reviews the 8 country education sector plans which were endorsed by EFA-FTI between October 2004 and November 2006. It is a collaboration between the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education and the EFA-FTI. - Download the PDF in English
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| UNESCO-UNEVOC in action: report on activities 2006-2007 |
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Bonn, UNESCO-UNEVOC, 2008. 45 p.
In light of the 2005 UNESCO General Conference stressing the importance of skills for employment and to fulfil its mandate to assist countries to develop and strengthen education for the changing world of work, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training undertook numerous activities around the world in 2006-2007 in the areas of of secondary education, formal, non-formal and informal TVET, and vocational content in higher education. This report details those activities. - Download the PDF in English
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