Educating girls has a myriad of benefits ranging from greater empowerment and economic opportunities to improved health outcomes and reduced poverty. In Pakistan, school-age children, especially girls...
Major technological changes in the production and analysis of data have opened opportunities to transform the way we use integrated high-frequency data ecosystems and advanced analytical tools, notably...
Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters. This...
A large body of evidence suggests sizeable improvements in cognitive and social-emotional skills and subsequent educational attainment following preprimary education interventions as well as increases...
Achieving gender equity in educational attainment, necessary for DRC’s human capital and poverty reduction agenda, will require prioritizing investments in secondary that target girls in underserved provinces...
This report provides a snapshot of the gender gap in access and quality of basic education in DRC, how it has evolved over time and how it varies within the country. Over the past two decades, enrollment...
This report identifies both supply and demand side constraints associated with gender gaps in access to education and learning outcomes, with a special focus on the quality of service delivery, safety...
In many developing countries, access to justice remains unequal, especially for women. What are the implications of this inequality for gender-based violence and investment in children? This paper provides...
This report is organized as follows. Chapter one analyzes the emerging trends in the evolution of student’s learning outcomes in Tanzania’s primary schools and explores variations by region, ethnic-group...
This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents...
This study documents the results of a pilot study designed to measure the quality of teacher practices using the classroom observation tool TEACH in a selection of 45 public primary schools (73 percent...
Schooling is not the same as learning. Although access to schooling in Afghanistan has improved significantly in the last decade, 4th grade Afghan students are not learning. Using the 2017 Afghanistan...