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Olsen, Brad; Rodríguez, Mónica; Elliott, Maya – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
Education is crucial for the cultivation of successful individuals, healthy communities, robust societies, strong economies, and a healing planet. Yet, while most available education measures show impressive improvement in access in low- and middle-income countries over recent decades, there remains a heartbreaking gap in educational outcomes…
Descriptors: Low Income, Educational Innovation, Achievement Gap, Outcomes of Education
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McConkey, Roy; Mariga, Lilian – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
The concept of social capital provided a helpful framework in which to describe the development of a pilot programme to promote inclusive education within Zanzibar. This had involved 20 schools and was supported by an international donor working through a local non-governmental organisation in partnership with the Ministry of Education. Evaluative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Social Capital, Inclusion
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Macpherson, Ian – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
This article relates key findings from an ethnographic study into the implementation of the Rights-Based Approach in Tanzania. The Rights-Based Approach is a burgeoning approach in international development that emphasises the rights of citizens and the duties of the State to provide services to the poor. By using the theoretical frameworks of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education