Research in Regions
AFRICA

All Africa.com
news about the girl child as well as other topics, in French and English, covers all
regions in Africa, BBC link
JOKKOO
Annual magazine of the United Nations System in The Gambia (focus on Population and
development)
Radio Simba
Listen to Live Radio from Uganda (Has commercial features but a interesting site)
Union
for African Population Studies
SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR UNIOR
RESEARCHERS.GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION
2000 Edition Priority Research Themes THEME No 10 : GIRL
CHILD EDUCATION AND CHILDREN RIGHTS - Research needed
What effects would education have on the life of the
girl child?
How would education lead to be rising age at marriage,
high rate of contraceptive usage, decline in adolescent pregnancies and unsafe absortion,
etc. thus improving the health of the girl and lowering fertility?
In what ways would education of the girl child enhance
the status of the young girls in the short run of the women in the long run?
Does education per se enhance the status of the female
or are there other concomittment factors that must be changed in order to ensure
appropriate socio-cultural responses to changes in the society?
Asia & the Pacific

Asia/Pacific
Cultural Centre for UNESCO
GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION. Development of basic literacy learning materials for girls and women
in Asia and the Pacific
SAARC
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Working together in friendship to promote
social and economic support for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and
Sri Lanka
CANADA

World
University Service of Canada
Canada-Ghana
Girl-Child education Enhancement Project (1997)
INDIA

ASHA
To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children.
ASHA
Related articles on the girl child and education ()
The Hindu Online edition of India's National Newspaper on indiaserver.com
Girl child's education: efforts on to reduce dropout rate, Article for
research
Front Page
The Hindu Online National Newspaper for research
SAFE
Save a Female through Education ()
Help educate girl Children in India.(Link to The Progress if Indian States
a report from United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund-UNICEF.
Get Involved)
Vedams
Books from India
Urgency of Value Education and Primacy of Girl Child : National Agenda for
Educational Reforms/edited by Subhash C. Kashyap. 1998, 231 p., ISBN 81- 85565-95-3.
Primary Source material
International

G L O
B A L I S S U E S
Population at the Millennium
CAIRO PLAN OF ACTION -- PRINCIPLES The United States Perspective. The
principles of the Program of Action adopted by United Nations International Conference on
Population and Development, September, 1994, in Cairo, Egypt.
Pakistan and Kashmir

Unofficial web site of The
Kashmir Education Foundation
We are dedicated to the promotion of quality education in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir for
quality education for the girl child.

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