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Assessing gender vulnerability and impacts to climate change needs to check various socio cultural, economic and biophysical factor that attributes to the variation in climate impacts .Of the socio-cultural resolution, this study targeted to assess the role that gender bears in the community, including their perception ,in shaping the impacts of climate change. The study was conducted in west shoa zone of Ethiopia, in Bako Tibe district. The research employs both quantitative and qualitative...
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The way audiences form perceptions about climate change has become a widely studied topic. The fact the there is still a reluctance among people to believe and act on very concerning scientific projections about the effects of climate change has led to a surge in research about the reasons for this. While much work has been done in developed countries, little is known about how people in developing countries make sense of climate change. In South Africa, development issues such as poverty...
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Introduction: Despite all the policies in place implementation of inclusive education remains limited at grass root level in Uganda.This paper explores accessibility and inclusion of children with spina bifida in primary schools with parents and teachers.Method: Qualitative semi structured interviews and school observations were combined and conducted with 63 parents and 30 teachers in Uganda's central region.The Index of Inclusion was used as a guide in the interviews with parents,...
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This study applies machine learning to the rapidly growing societal problem of drought. Severe drought exists in Ethiopia with crop failures affecting about 90 million people. The Ethiopian famine of 1983–85 caused a loss of ∼400,000–1,000,000 lives. The present drought was triggered by low precipitation associated with the current El Niño and long-term warming, enhancing the potential for a catastrophe. In this study, the roles of temperature, precipitation and El Niño are examined to...
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Most of arid regions, as Tunisian area, are threatened by environmental changes considering the shortage of water resources and the low quality of water that is used for crop irrigation. To ensure food security under this current context, there is a need to search for new crops with high economic value and adapted to extreme climatic condition like quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd). A program was started from 2014 to study the responses of quinoa under Tunisian drought and salinity...
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Hargreaves (2002) suggested that vigorous social movements have the potential to improve the quality of (and increase the equity in) public education.This paper explores the role of Equal Education, an education social movement in South Africa led by university students and secondary school learners, in the process 1. Interview evidence presented in this paper was also used in Brahm Fleisch and Steven Robins, Mediating active citizenship and social mobility in working-class schools: The case...
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As a continuation of the report, Millions Learning: Scaling up quality education in developing countries, which tells the story of where and how effective learning interventions have scaled up around the world, the Millions Learning case studies provide an in-depth look at 12 of the programs and policies explored in the report. This report looks at the case study of Bridge International Academies.