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Lisa Gilman – Journal of Folklore and Education, 2024
A collaboration between youth in a refugee camp in Malawi, U.S. college students, and a professor of folklore has produced a website and forthcoming book manuscript. The project augments opportunities for the artists, all of whom are refugees or asylum seekers, to share their work, bring visibility to the talent in the camp, raise awareness about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Refugees, Emergency Shelters
Manyamba, Christopher; Phundulu, Morris; Vally, Zaheedah; Muchesa, Evans; Mosselson, Maureen – Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
As the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) was in the last year of its 2015-2021 strategic plan, COL sought to evaluate the impact of its interventions in open and innovative schooling (OIS) in the period 2018-2021 through an external review. An online quantitative study was carried out in Belize, Malawi, Mozambique, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zambia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Open Education
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Silver, Rachel; Morley, Alyssa – Gender and Education, 2022
Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers' work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Program Development, Intervention
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Kun, Karen E.; Kassim, Anisa; Howze, Elizabeth; MacDonald, Goldie – Qualitative Report, 2013
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Sustainable Management Development Program (SMDP) partners with low- and middle-resource countries to develop management capacity so that effective global public health programs can be implemented and better health outcomes can be achieved. The program's impact however, was variable. Hence, there…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Programs, International Programs, Developing Nations
Clarke, Ronald – Educational Broadcasting International, 1973
Article describes the planning and design of a part-time continuing education program for intermediate-level rural development staff, and presents reasons why a combination of more localized and individual teaching-learning media was chosen in preference to the national mass media. (Author)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Dropouts, Instructional Design, Multimedia Instruction
Bhola, H. S. – 1985
In Malawi, adult literacy deserves immediate attention in order to promote health, family planning, and productivity. While policy commitment for adult literacy promotion has not been lacking, intensified action has been. In 1979 the government accepted the Unesco Mission Report to undertake a functional literacy program on the successful…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development
Lawless, C. J. – Programmed Learning Educ Technol, 1969
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Educational Problems
Ishumi, Abel G. M. – 1994
This book provides an historical and comparative review of educational policies and practices in eight countries of eastern and southern Africa in the period since political independence. These policies and educational changes were articulated in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, decades characterized by high socioeconomic and political expectations.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change
Woods, John L. – 1970
An Agency for International Development (AID) project established an educational film production unit in Malawi. The project was designed to deliver extension services and information from the Ministry of Agriculture to rural farmers and had to: 1) produce films which meet the needs of villagers; 2) keep costs to an absolute minimum; and 3) fully…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Costs, Developing Nations, Extension Education
Sankhulani, Lillian – International Education Journal, 2007
This paper reports on the findings of the preliminary research that I conducted in two districts of southern Malawi, Africa. The purpose of the research was to establish the existence of the Sara Communication Initiative (SCI), a girls' intervention program, which had been introduced to selected rural schools. During the preliminary visits, I…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Role Models, Intervention, Females
EDSTROEM, LARS-OLOF – 1966
THIS REPORT ON THE SALIENT FEATURES AND CONCERNS OF CORRESPONDENCE INSTRUCTION IN ETHIOPIA, KENYA, TANZANIA, MALAWI, ZAMBIA, AND UGANDA--(1) DISCUSSES ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE CORRESPONDENCE METHOD IN AN AFRICAN CONTEXT, (2) SURVEYS CONDITIONS AND FACILITIES (POSTAL SERVICES, ROADS, INSTRUCTIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION,…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development
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Sharp, Alistair – ELT Journal, 1998
English-language training projects that are part of the United Kingdom's overseas aid program are usually of fixed duration and have clearly defined objectives. The project framework is examined here as it has been developed as a tool for accountability. A Malawi project is described, and general principles for improving sustainability are…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, International Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1987
The main aim of the International Institute for Educational Planning's program "Training the Trainers" is to improve the technical skills of planning specialists and to develop their organizational capabilities so that they can run national training programs. The objectives of the workshop described in this reort were to design the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Developing Nations
International Planned Parenthood Federation, London (England). – 1978
A seminar on family life education provided an opportunity for 51 participants, the majority of whom were women, from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, the Republic of South Africa, and Swaziland, to meet and discuss professional problems with colleagues involved in family life education (FLE). The objectives of the seminar were to: (1) develop a family…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life Education, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries