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Challenges in policy transition: In situ upgrading of informal settlements in Johannesburg and Nairobi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There has been a gradual shift in informal settlement intervention policies across the world, with In situ upgrading being considered an ideal approach as it addresses poor conditions in settlements without negatively impacting on beneficiaries’ lives ...
Maina, Miriam Muthoni
core  

A pipeline crisis or a sustainability crisis? Local and national succession planning for headteachers in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recruiting and retaining school leaders is a challenge in many systems worldwide. Previous research has identified three distinct ways in which succession planning can be conceptualised and approached: a ‘pipeline’ approach seeks to match supply and demand for the posts that need filling; a ‘pool’ strategy involves proactively identifying and ...
Toby Greany   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards community-based nursing: Mothers’ experiences caring for their preterm infants in an informal settlement, Gauteng

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2020
Background: Pregnant women who experience preterm labour rush to public hospitals closest to the informal settlement in which they reside. Preterm infants are discharged when they reach a certain weight.
Alida S. du Plessis-Faurie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community-driven sanitation improvement in deprived urban neighbourhoods: meeting the challenges of local collective action, co-production, affordability and a trans-sectoral approach. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There is an international consensus that urban sanitary conditions are in great need of improvement, but sharp disagreement over how this improvement should be pursued.
McGranahan, Gordon, SHARE
core   +1 more source

Operationalising global education in teacher education and training: A model for contextualising terminology

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

HIV-Prevalence in South Africa by settlement type: A repeat population-based cross-sectional analysis of men and women.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
To assess i) whether there is an independent association between HIV-prevalence and settlement types (urban formal, urban informal, rural formal, rural informal), and, ii) whether this changes over time, in South Africa. We draw on four (2002; 2005; 2008;
Andrew Gibbs   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health economic considerations for pharmacogenomic services in the United Kingdom: The Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics

open access: yes
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Dyfrig A. Hughes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Analyses of Informal Settlement and Determination of Effectiveness Coefficient for Each Parameter by Route Analysis Model (Case study: Shater Abbad Kermansha) [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2012
On of the problems related to the Metro police are the informal settlement the shortage of the land for making structures in high cost against the fast rate of population rise an highly, the increasing rate of the application for house in city caused to ...
Isa Ebrahimzadeh, Mostafa Sayedi
doaj  

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