Since the 1950s, the Nigerian government has undertaken various reforms and
assessments to improve educational planning and delivery. Schemes and legal frameworks …

Abstract The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System, managed by the
African Population and Health Research Center, has been in existence since 2002. After …

This paper provides a comparative perspective of two of the three East African Countries
policies for expanding access to education, particularly with regard to equity and quality of …

Free primary education policy has substantially increased school enrollment rates in Sub-
Saharan African countries. The success and sustainability depend on teachers' perception …

Parental deaths due to AIDS seriously affect the psychological well-being of children. Social
support may provide an effective resource in the care of vulnerable children in resource …

A large body of research published since the year 2000 has documented the significant and
growing contributions of low-cost private schools in slums and villages around the world …

Research shows that children living with two biological parents outperform those raised in
other family structures. A growing number of children do not live with two biological parents …

This volume is the result of eighteen years of work focusing on education and the rights of
children, and sixteen years of thought and research on the phenomenon of low-fee private …

This article provides an update on our earlier paper on the introduction by the Kenyan
government in 2003 of free primary education (FPE), and its impact on low-fee private …

The Kenyan government introduced free primary education in 2003 in order to universalise
access to primary education. Although the policy allows universal coverage, it ought to …