Essays about: "MDG s"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words MDG s.

  1. 1. Real learning or just school for all? : Discrepancies between enrolment numbers and learning results in India

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Ronja Bäckström; Jennifer Keusch Duvsjö; [2015]
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    Abstract : As the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, are coming closer to the target year of 2015, this study joins the ongoing debate about the achieved results with a focus on India. While India has seen great improvements concerning the second MDG, which is for all children to enrol and complete primary education, the country has for the past years been facing a challenge of decreasing learning results. READ MORE

  3. 2. Legal and Policy Framework for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: a Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal in Liberia

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Jerry Calson Kammah; [2014]
    Keywords : Liberia; Gender; Empowerment; Culture; Violence; Education; Discrimination; History;

    Abstract : This paper critically analyse the extent to which legal and policy frameworks have contributed in achieving the third Millennium Development Goal (3rd MDG) in Liberia. It explores the feminist theory of Intersectionality by examining the intersection of historical, social and political context which all contribute to social division in Liberia. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Politicization of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: In the Post-Millennium Development Goals negotiations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Adriana Pereira; [2014]
    Keywords : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; Human Rights; Post-MDGs; Women’s health; advocacy networks; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) emerged from a fragmentation of different meaning of SRHR coming together to form one complex policy area. SRHR has been politicized in the past by predominant activist groups such as human rights and feminists (including those working with both fields simultaneously). READ MORE

  5. 4. A Study of Whenci Woreda in West Showa Zone Ethiopia

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Jenny Laesö Buch; [2012-10-04]
    Keywords : water; MDG; Ethiopia; water security; water accessibility; RADWQ; water quality and sanitary risk factors;

    Abstract : Even though access to water has been recognized as a human right and is important for human development, still in the year 2008 about 884 million people lacked access to improved water sources. Most of these people live in the developing regions of the world. This study will be focusing on an area in west Showa zone in Ethiopia. READ MORE

  6. 5. Neglecting the public and focusing on the private: "The situation of education in Nigeria"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Meshiack Uche Akuaka; [2012-05-10]
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    Abstract : This research looks into the problem of public education funding in Nigeria. Immediately after independence, great strides were made in the area of mass education. The government’s efforts towards education recorded huge successes across the country. READ MORE