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Nigeria as a country gives much credence to tertiary education as the means for social and economic mobility, social transformation, as well as the major platform for higher level workforce development – managerial and technological. To achieve these laudable objectives, government has given approval to private individuals and organizations to own and manage private tertiary institutions of learning. This paper examines some of the glitches that accompany Nigerian tertiary education policies...

Governing Congo Basin Forests in a Changing Climate: Actors, Discourses and Institutions for Adaptation and Mitigation OA Somorin Abstract The thesis deals with the central question of the governance processes of making tropical forests deliver climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes of sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity conservation and enhanced carbon stocks. Using the case of the Congo Basin forests, it analyzes the nexus between forest and climate change, particularly on the...

In Ethiopia, we implemented a classroom-training program and an on-site training program for entrepreneurs operating metalworking enterprises with three or more workers. The measurement of the training impacts in Ethiopia is likely to be affected by the increasingly favorable access to the knowledge of Kaizen due to the recent government policy of disseminating Kaizen as an integral part of the country’s modernization. Yet, the purpose of this chapter is to analyze the impacts of classroom...

In the garment cluster in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a large number of self-employed tailors and a small number of ready-made garment (RMG) factories coexist, as we described in our previous study (Sonobe and Otsuka, 2011, Chapter 9). The enterprise data that we collected for the previous study in 2007 were used as baseline data for the present study of management training. In 2008, the Addis Ababa office of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) agreed with our idea to provide a...

In Tanzania, we conducted a new round of surveys of garment enterprises in March 2012. Although these enterprises are located in Dar es Salaam, they are not geographically as concentrated as in other clusters. We refer to this survey as the third follow-up survey because we conducted the first follow-up survey earlier in September 2010 after the classroom training program was completed and the second follow-up survey in March 2011 after the on-site training was completed. In this chapter, we...

Micro and small enterprises are widely recognized as a major source of employment and income in developing countries. If they grow in size, they would contribute more to economic growth and poverty reduction. In reality, however, their productivity remains low and their sizes remain small (e.g., Mead and Lieadholm, 1998; Tybout, 2000). While their low performances may be attributed to the unfavorable circumstances surrounding them, recent empirical studies have identified problems within...

The training manual was prepared for the inspectors of slaughterhouses in Egypt to support the training activities of the General Organization for Veterinary Services (GOVS). The manual has two main parts: 1. Overview on how to design, organize, implement and evaluate training programs in general 2. Recommendation on how to design and facilitate training programs for the inspectors of slaughterhouses. Report CDI-14-004.

The Spanish NGO "Alianza por la Solidaridad" has installed improved cookstoves in 3000 households during 2012 and 2013 to improve energy efficiency reducing fuelwood consumption and to improve indoor air quality.The type of cookstoves were Noflaye Jeeg and Noflaye Jaboot and were installed in the Cassamance Natural Subregion covering part of Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) has conducted a field study on a sample of these households to assess the...

Our research is intended to provide data on learning difficulties within students from scientific majors and the causes of school failure and abandon phenomena in the university.In this research, we are interested in the study of communication disorders and difficulties that these disorders may result in beyond the only language aspects.519 chemistry students belonging to the Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik at the University Hassan II Mohammedia -Casablanca participated in the survey.They are...

Our research is intended to provide data on learning difficulties within students from scientific majors and the causes of school failure and abandon phenomena in the university.In this research, we are interested in the study of learning difficulties.519 chemistry students belonging to the Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik at the University Hassan II Mohammedia -Casablanca participated in the survey.They are aged between 17 and 23 years and suffer no physical or mental disability.The...

How does the higher education sector in South Africa, located here at the edge of the African continent and surrounded by its almost unique complexities of time, space and sociality, work with and reconcile the demands for inclusion and excellence? How does it manage the extraordinarily difficult task of exploring, benefiting from and participating in the global knowledge revolution while simultaneously addressing the moral and practical questions of social inclusion? How does it manage to...

The future development of Africa and its participation in the knowledge society will be greatly influenced by how Africa manages to deliver quality education to its citizens. Education forms the basis for developing innovation, science, and technology, in order to harness resources, industrialize, and participate in the global knowledge economy and for Africa to take its rightful place in the global community. While information and communication technology (ICT) has been used in many parts...

A survey of the prevalence of Intestinal Nematodes and the implications of socio-economic status was carried out among Muslim Primary School pupils aged 5 - 13 years in 2012. A focus group discussions method was used to extract information on the type of residences the pupils reside in and sanitary facilities they use and the Faecal matter samples were collected from 240 pupils, processed using wet and iodine preparation for isolation of nematodes. Then results were combined using...

The need to define Westerners as civilized  and non-Westerners as savage  has been a hallmark of Euro-American thought present in virtually every encounter between the West and the Rest.  This exoticizing of the Other became greatly standardized, however, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Westerners traveled, photographed, and learned more about non-Westerners. Through their writing and photographs, they deliberately highlighted the perceived differences between themselves and...

This study quantifies a year’s worth of mathematics learning in South Africa (0.3 standard deviations) and uses this measure to develop empirically-calibrated learning trajectories. Two main findings are, (1) only the top 16% of South African Grade 3 children are performing at an appropriate Grade 3 level. (2) The learning gap between the poorest 60% of students and the wealthiest 20% of students is approximately three Grade-levels in Grade 3, growing to four Grade-levels by Grade 9. The...

Since the onset of inclusion of children with disabilities in the education sector, many challenges are facing the reform effort especially as regards to improving services of the disabled children. In an inclusive school, general education does not relinquish responsibility for pupils with special needs, but instead, places them at the centre of challenges which include attitudes of teachers and peers. Their self-concept which is influenced by these attitudes determines their academic...