Kenya
The two principal aims of Education International (EI) are to advocate for the right to quality education for all people and to fight for the improvement of the welfare and status of teachers and other education employees through the effective application of their human and trade union rights. In that respect, EI fully supports the achievement of Education for All (EFA) targets and Millennium...
The author uses historical examples of forced relocation, or alleged relocation, from protected areas in Kenya to challenge some of the points made by Rangarajan and Shahabuddin in their 2006 Conservation and Society article.
Hughes suggests that the debate thus far has failed to discuss the role and uses of social memory, especially in relation to land restitution claims. Also,...
This paper presents an up to date account of 154 mammal species recorded on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and the surrounding area, from 1883 to the present, when 128 species are known to occur. Old records are reviewed and several new records added, while four recorded species have been excluded. One species, the black rhinoceros, is reported to have become extinct; another, the klipspringer,...
Kenyan farmers taking part in the NUTMON study know that land productivity had been declining for years. They also know that continuous cropping and manure shortages are to blame. The aim of the NUTMON programme is to build on this consciousness and increase farmer awareness of the role of nutrients in agricultural production and to develop a tool that can assess nutrient balance and economic...
Members of Salato Women´s Groups have been successful in developing several important food security items that group members are now producing for household level use. While the PTD methods have already resulted in several good products, the Salato Group members have learned that technology development is an ongoing process and they continue to seek new and better ways of preserving...
Millions of rural people in Eastern Africa depend on maize and sorghum for food security and cash income. Despite this, production of these crops is seriously affected by constraints such as stemborers, the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica, low and declining soil fertility, lack of knowledge on how to manage these pests and weaknesses in the extension system.
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<p>Every day, every week, every year DFID, the Department for International Development, is fighting poverty on behalf of the UK public. This little book of successes highlights 52 case studies, one a week for a year, to show the range of work that DFID supports and the real impact that it is making on the lives of people around the world. There is still much to do but it is hoped that...
Recent IRFOL research on the use of distance education for teacher education reveals a lack of detailed information and guidance for policy makers on three aspects of distance education for teachers: models of decentralised management; student support and assessment of classroom practice; and technology choice.
The present study narrows the focus to these three aspects of teacher...
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