From the Drylands to the Market: Policy Opportunities and Challenges in Dryland Areas of East Africa.

This paper presents a summary of the challenges, opportunities and policies adopted by the three East African countries –Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania- to address the production and marketing of goods and services from drylands. It also provides recommendations on policy that could enhance production and marketing of relevant products. It is based on three national policy studies undertaken in the three countries, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania

Hijras/transgender women in India: HIV, human rights and social exclusion

The focus of this Transgender Issue Brief is to summarize the various issues faced by Hijras and transgender women in India by using the social exclusion framework, and to highlight the relation between this exclusion and vulnerability to HIV and other health risks

UNDP\u27s National Execution Modality: On The Road To Turning The Management Of Development Programmes Over To Programme Governments

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the cornerstone of the United Nations efforts in the field of international development cooperation and operates as the central funding and catalytic mechanism of the United Nations development system

MASG Update

The following article highlights the recent activities of the Mine Action Support Group (MASG), including updates on the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Children\u27s Fund (UNICEF

Letter to colleagues regarding UNDP actions in China

Letter from Bob Seidman containing an abbreviated proposal written by himself and Ann Seidman for a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Chinese Committee on International Cooperation, Exchanges, and Trade (CICET) project on bill legislation, and a brief report written by the Seidmans after four weeks spent in Beijing

Needs Assessment for Effective Implementation of the Environmental Conservation Law in Myanmar

This publication was saved to HELDA-publications archive with the permission from The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Myanmar

Analyzing Turkey's Data from TIMSS 2007 to Investigate Regional Disparities in Eighth Grade Science Achievement

Thesis advisor: Ina V. S. MullisTurkey is expected to be a full member of the European Union (EU) by 2013. In the course of its integration into the EU, Turkey has been simultaneously facing access, quality, and equity issues in education. Over the past decade, substantial progress has been made on increasing the access. However, improving the country's low level of education quality and achieving equity in quality education across the regions continue to be a monumental challenge in Turkey. Most recently, results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 indicated that Turkey's educational achievement at the eighth grade, the end of compulsory primary education in Turkey, was far below that of other countries in the EU. Considering Turkey's long standing socioeconomic disparities between the western and eastern parts of the country, the challenges of improving overall education quality are coupled with the challenges of achieving equity in learning outcomes for students across the regions. This dissertation used data from TIMSS 2007 to document the extent of Turkey's regional differences in science achievement at the eighth grade and to investigate factors associated with these differences. Findings from a series of analyses using hierarchical linear models suggested that attempts to increase Turkish students' achievement and close the achievement gaps between regions should target the students in the undeveloped regions, particularly in Southeastern Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia. Designing interventions to improve competency in Turkish and to compensate for the shortcomings of insufficient parental education, limited home educational resources, poor school climate for academic achievement, and inadequate instructional equipment and facilities might be expected to close the regional achievement gaps as well as raise the overall achievement level in Turkey.Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009.Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education.Discipline: Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation