Publications

Curriculum guide: Effective support for transition to primary…

This guide analyses the broad spectrum of factors that influence whether a child successfully transitions in to primary school.
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Enhancing child protection through early childhood care and…

This manual provides a training guide for use with staff who work directly with children and parents in early childhood development projects.
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The state of the world’s girls 2011

The 2011 State of the World’s Girls report shows that far from being an issue just for women and girls, gender is also about boys and men, and that this needs to be better understood if…
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The state of the world’s girls 2010

With a focus on the boom in city populations and the explosion of IT and communication technology, the 2010 State of the World's Girls report looks at the prospects and perils facing girls.…
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The State of the World’s Girls 2009: Girls in the Global…

This report warns that failing to send girls to school costs the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year. 
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Handbook on Community Led Total Sanitation

This handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), produced in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, is aimed at enabling communities to analyse their…
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The State of the World’s Girls 2007

The 2007 State of the World's Girls report shows girls are getting a raw deal. They face the double discrimination of their gender and their age, and in many societies remain at the bottom of…
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