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Poverty and food insecurity continue to feature prominently in the global agenda, with particularly close attention being paid to the determinants of food insecurity. However, the effect of education is mixed and remains understudied in low income countries. Using longitudinal data collected between 2007 and 2012 in Kenya, we investigated the effect of household education attainment on food security among poor urban households. Household food security was constructed from a set of four key...
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Objective To examine the life experiences of African American and Hispanic adults whose personal chronic illness and/or that of a family member is the biggest health problem for their families. Data source Telephone (landline and cell phone) interviews of random, nationally representative samples of 1081 African-American and 1478 Hispanic adults, age 18 and older. We evaluated the responses of 757 African-American and 697 Hispanic participants who reported a chronic illness as the biggest...
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Quranic schools (QS) play a central role in the education system in the Islamic world. Despite their relatively small numbers, QS teachers play a major role in introducing Islamic values to the public. Thus, working with QS becomes a key strategy in influencing local Islamic discourse. This article introduces a case study of a program integrating peace, interfaith, and human rights education in QS in West Africa while drawing on the Islamic tradition in peace-building. Results suggest that...
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The problem of low inclusive education is essential to research as it highlights the importance of equal opportunity to all students regardless of mental or physical ability. The study was conducted within a Zimbabwean high school context. The purpose of the study was to conduct an empirical investigation into the impact of inclusive education and therefore establish the extent to which it has benefited students with disabilities in four high schools in the Harare province. Furthermore,...
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Aims: Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine are lagging behind in resource-limited settings (RLS). Baseline data from these settings should set goals for implementation. Following legislation (N°83/013/1983) on the protection of persons with disabilities in Cameroon, we sought to assess the types and potential determinants of physical disability, in order to set-up pitfalls towards better protection and promotion of human rights among disable Cameroonians. Methods: A cross-sectional study...
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Mozambique - Artisanal Fisheries and Climate Change Project : restructuringGarnaud, B. - 2016 - 1–1
The development objective of the First South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Shared Growth, Aquaculture and Climate Change Projects is to improve community management of selected priority fisheries. This restructuring includes works as an eligible expenditure. In the initial Administrative Agreement between the Nordic Development Fund and the World Bank, works were not an eligible expenditure and this was also reflected in the project Grant Agreement. The project design envisages...
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This comparative descriptive study sought to determine the impact of glocalization on international social work education. Using quantitative methods, this study reports objective findings for a randomly selected, non-probability, purposive sample of 178 faculty members who were geographically distributed among faculties and departments of social work at 22 universities in eight Arab countries. The primary research instrument used was a standardized paper and pencil questionnaire. Data...
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Students with disabilities require special convenient access to library services as compared to the general student population. Despite the special needs requirements, there is consensus among researchers that access to library services by students with disabilities is not yet fully available, especially in countries in the global periphery. This study utilised quantitative data collected through questionnaires directed to 92 disabled students registered for the 2013 academic year, an...
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Over the past decades, South Africa has undergone rapid demographic changes, which have led to marked increases in specific cardiac disease categories, such as rheumatic heart disease (now predominantly presenting in young adults with advanced and symptomatic disease) and coronary artery disease (with rapidly increasing prevalence in middle age). The lack of screening facilities, delayed diagnosis and inadequate care at primary, secondary and tertiary levels have led to a large burden of...
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This study investigated good and caring teaching behaviours as perceived by Business Education students in Tertiary Institutions in the North Eastern Nigeria.The latter needed good and caring teaching behaviours to reform the education sector that had been devastated by Boko Haram insurgency.The design of the study was survey.The research questions answered were: (i) what knowledge bases do business education students perceived of their Lecturers for good and caring teaching in their...
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Code switching patterns is a common practice in teaching/learning institutions in bilingual and multilingual communities. The switch from one language to another in different context often shows the social and cultural identities of the speakers. The changing society has influenced the current generation in profound ways. The competitive world has challenged the school proprietors to come up with private pre-schools that ride on top of other pre-schools. The excellence of these schools is...
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A study was carried in two agricultural zones of Enugu State, Nigeria The overall objective of this study was to understand local communities' perceptions on climate and variability issues and establish its impacts and adaptation strategies within agricultural sector. Both primary and secondary data were used. Primary data were obtained using different Participatory Research Approaches (PRA) including, focus group discussions and household questionnaires. In each community, a sample size of...
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Code switching deals with languages in contact.In social situations code switching is characterized by the use of more than two languages in the same context.In private preschools the languages in contact are Kiswahili, English and mother tongue.This is not expected by the stake holders, educators and the managers who prefer the use of English language as code of instruction in teaching and learning.This has not worked well because there are few families where English is the language of the...