McGrath, S. Network for Policy Review Research and Advice on Education and Training (NORRAG) (2005) With seventy percent of the world’s poor living in rural areas, it is essential that .. Read more

TEACHERS FOR RURAL SCHOOLS: A CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA Mulkeen, A. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2005) This paper is based on country case studies done in .. Read more

What is Poverty? We use the term “poorest” or “very poor” to refer to people living on less than $1 per day or in the bottom half of those living .. Read more

Some 300K children are non-schooled, dropouts in Morocco, study Rabat, July 26 – Over 300,000 children are dropouts or have never been to school in Morocco, revealed, here Thursday, the .. Read more

24,000: the number of people who die everyday of hunger or hunger-related causes. UNESCO: Countries with an adult literacy rate of about 40 percent, GNP per capita averaged $210 annually; .. Read more

Children living in poor environments are extremely vulnerable: lack of medical treatment and facilities, soiled and dirty water usage, poor and unbalanced nutrition are few characteristics of such standard of .. Read more

Recommendations: Prevention • Develop/improve policies to ensure provision of basic social services (e.g. water, education, healthcare) to all. • Develop a National Strategy for Education that enables access for all .. Read more

Achievements: Government The ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the introduction of a new penal code adopted in 2002 (ensuring, among other things, legal assistance .. Read more

Background: Population estimated in 2001 at 29.1 million, of which 44% are rural and 39.5% are aged 18 and under.  Many factors have prompted large scale urban migration from rural .. Read more

Today, over 60 million girls are not in school, accounting for more than half of all unschooled children worldwide. The situation is most dire in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 23 million .. Read more