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Purpose Between 2006 and 2016, local communities in semi-arid Bobirwa sub-district in the Limpopo Basin part of Botswana had endured notable fluctuations in the delivery of critical ecosystem services. These changes have been coupled with adverse effects on local people’s livelihood options and well-being. However, a few such studies have focussed on the semi-arid to arid landscapes. This study therefore aims to provide recent knowledge and evidence of consequences of environmental change on...

The methodology of teaching informatics is a reflection subject that arouses increasing interest both locally and internationally.Debates on the curricula of the discipline are always at the center of many discussions amongst computer scientists and other concerned educators.Teaching Computer science in secondary schools is increasingly perceived as having similar status like teaching mathematics, life and earth sciences, chemistry, and physics.In this paper we report and analyze the current...

The determinants of adaptation strategies to climate change by farmers in sub-Saharan Africa have generated considerable development interest.From a policy perspective, it is important to document the experiences of farming communities in adapting to climate change, in order to determine suitable adaptation options for the future.The objective of this study was to analyse adaptation and coping strategies to climate change, and ascertain the factors influencing adaptation by farmers in Osun...

This paper discusses the challenges of providing HIV/AIDS counselling to pupils with hearing impairment by guidance and counselling teachers who are not familiar with sign language. The knowledge gaps were; how do guidance teachers who do not know sign language provide HIV/AIDS counseling to pupils who only benefit from the use of sign language? Do the pupils with hearing impairment really get what they communicate to them orally? These questions motivated this study. Since it was a...

The teaching and learning of religion in most post-colonial states take place on an ambivalent and contested terrain, which has resulted in the amputation of religion from some schools and contexts. The new curriculum in Zimbabwe, as a state-making project that is arguably devoid of, or has covert policy networks, has resulted in religious curriculum resistance. In this paper we juxtapose two questions: What are the challenges of the new religious curriculum, and how can the international...

While more effort is being geared toward implementation of quality early childhood education programs, there is still debate on what quality entails. While the education officers believe they are providing quality education, some communities who are the target beneficiaries see it as meaningless and keep away from it, affecting the “Education for All” slogan. If education has to be meaningful in a manner that addresses Sustainable Development Goals 4, quality must be addressed in the...

The White racial frame (WRF) is a set of cultural narratives and symbols based in White supremacy and anti-blackness that shape perceptions, ideologies, and emotions in U.S. society. The WRF also shapes individual experiences. Our research team explored how the WRF shaped experiences of Black college students. Adapting consensual qualitative research methods, we analyzed notes from discussions including 752 students participating in the African American Student Network (AFAM) over a...

The study aims to investigate the impact of word part strategy on L2 vocabulary acquisition.The purpose of the current study is to examine how word part strategy can help students to understand words and facilitate vocabulary acquisition.Fifty students from a Moroccan public engineering school contributed in the study.All participants were given vocabulary pre-test, short lectures about word-formation rules and two vocabulary tests.The results show that word part strategy is helpful in...

Safe perioperative care remains a large public healthcare problem in low- and middle-income countries. Anesthesia care provided by trained professionals is one of the essential determinants to address this situation. This article reports the design and implementation of a focused anesthesia educational program for nurses in Chad.This program consisted of four full-time courses of one month each, taught in a local hospital. The program included supervised practice in the operating room and...

Abstract Uganda has seen a significant increase in access to primary education since 1996 but without an increase in quality learning. We show that there are weak political incentives to undertake reforms to enhance quality learning, for three reasons: (i) A system of decentralized rent management renders quality improvements arbitrary; (ii) There is a legacy of fee-free education playing an important part in the electoral appeal of the National Resistance Movement for rural voters; (iii)...

Abstract This chapter explores how political and institutional constraints influenced education policymaking and implementation in South Africa at national, provincial, and school levels. Stark differences between the Eastern and Western Cape provinces offer a natural experiment for exploring how context matters. The Eastern Cape’s socio-economic, political, and institutional legacy resulted in a low-level equilibrium trap—one where multiple political patronage networks were mirrored by a...

Abstract Background To determine the efficacy of a new typhoid conjugate vaccine in an endemic setting in sub-Saharan Africa, the Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium is conducting a phase-3 randomized controlled trial in Blantyre, Malawi. This article describes community and stakeholder engagement activities before and during the trial, challenges, and lessons learned. Methods In October 2017, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW) organized a wide range of community engagement...

This paper critically discusses the Eritrean education system at different period of time: before the Italian colonization (before 1889), Italian colonialization (1889-1941), British Administration (1941-1952), Federation with Ethiopia (1952-1962), annexation of Eritrea by Ethiopia (1962-1961), after independence (after 1991). An important finding of the current study is that, education system is significantly influenced by the economic and political situation of a country in that when the...

Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils’ attendance and girls’ enrolment rate within primary schools in northern Burkina Faso. Using difference-in-difference (DID) estimation with the data set on the Beoog Biiga programme, we find that take-home rations (THRs) increased school attendance for both boys and girls. Moreover, the...