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• Children in Abject Poverty in Uganda: A Study of Criteria and Status of Those in and out of School in Selected Districts in Uganda. This publication looks at poor children both in and out of school who live in Uganda. Since such children do not form a special social category in poverty eradication intervention programmes, their inclusion in Education for All efforts tends to be a hit-or-miss phenomenon. E-mail: w.gordon@unesco.org - Download • Developing Learning Communities: Beyond empowerment. The second volume in a series on ‘Developing Learning Communities’ examines an initiative for rethinking education and empowerment undertaken in Mussoorie, India. It illustrates how research on learning communities can challenge common beliefs about education, development, progress, backwardness, and empowerment. E-mail: m.sachs-israel@unesco.org - Download • Educating for Creativity: Bringing the Arts and Culture into Asian Education. This report presents the outcomes of two conferences: Asian Regional Symposia on Arts Education, Measuring the Impact of Arts in Education, Hong Kong SAR, China (9-11 January 2004) and Transmissions and Transformations: Learning Through the Arts in Asia, New Delhi, India (21-24 March 2005). Artists, educators, policy makers and experts in art and culture from across Asia prepared the papers for this report. E-mail: t.wagner@unesco.org - Download • The Evaluation of UNESCO Brazil’s Contribution to the Brazilian AIDS Programme by Elliot Stern. This publication is an evaluation of UNESCO’s large HIV/AIDS programme in Brazil. It highlights the lessons learnt from UNESCO’s Brazilian experience, which can be useful references for future projects throughout the rest of the world. - Download • Girls, Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching by Carol Benson. This publication argues that language, specifically the language used in schools, is one of the principal mechanisms through which inequality in education is reproduced. It shows how the learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making schooling more inclusive for all disadvantaged groups, especially for girls and women. - Download • Lifelong Learning and Distance Higher Education. This volume deals with distance higher education systems – especially those designed for lifelong learners – in the context of the changes surrounding globalization. As the world becomes more and more globalized, education is increasingly crossing borders – be they national, regional, sectoral or institutional. At the same time, educational systems must respond to other profound changes, such as the explosion of knowledge and the development of information and communication technology (ICT). E-mail: z.varoglu@unesco.org • Decentralization in Education: National Policies and Practices. The seventh volume in the series ‘Education Policies and Strategies’. The national experiences of ten countries are analyzed to reveal the complexity of educational reform and decentralization processes throughout the world. E-mail: gc.chang@unesco.org - Download • Interagency Secondary Education Virtual Library 1.0. This CD-Rom focuses on Africa and contains publications about critical issues relating to secondary education, including access, curriculum and teacher training. The self-copy feature of the CD-Rom is useful for distribution in developing countries as numerous copies can be made with little additional cost. Email: e.adubra@unesco.org - Download • Islands of Education: Schooling, Civil War and the Southern Sudanese (1983-2004) by Marc Sommers. This book examines the Southern Sudanese educational situation in three primary contexts: within southern Sudan, in refuge asylum countries and in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. It sheds light upon the disastrous consequences of underinvesting in education during conflict. Price: €12. - Download • ‘Scaling up’ Good Practices in Girls’ Education. This publication focuses on strategies for meeting international targets and national goals for universalizing girls’ access to, retention in and completion of quality education. This will be done through ‘scaling up’ successful interventions, or components of interventions that can be replicated. Email: l.buchert@unesco.org - Download • The UNESCO-AGFUND Cooperation: A Joint Force Serving Human Development. This publication gives a summary of the various projects sponsored by UNESCO-AGFUND (Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations) Cooperation. Over the past 25 years, AGFUND has enabled UNESCO to plan and implement sixty-nine projects, the majority in the field of education. Eighty-five countries have benefited from AGFUND’s contributions to the tune of $24 million. E-mail: e.dienes@unesco.org - Download • Winning People’s Will for Girl Child Education. This publication describes the process, outcomes and lessons learnt from a UNESCO project to educate girl children in two communities in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. E-mail: kathmandu@unesco.org - Download Unless otherwise indicated, all publications are available online at unesdoc.unesco.org