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Appiah-Agyekum, Nana Nimo; Kayi, Esinam Afi; Appiah-Agyekum, Josephine; Tetteh Nyanyofio, Joseph Gerald; Otoo, Desmond Dzidzornu – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: Resources as well as the capacity to employ them judiciously may well be the key to the attainment of the SDGs and other related health goals through primary health care (PHC). Within this PHC framework, however, the source of resources for PHC as well as the systems for managing these associated resources remain unclear, complex and lack…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Health Care, Financial Support, Human Resources
Marlana Salmon-Letelier; Bernard Thuo; Allison Park; Gabriel Sambo; Richard Stephen Tekdek – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
The educational crisis in Northeast Nigeria, deepened by conflict, economic challenges, and the COVID-19 pandemic, has significantly hindered access to quality education for millions of children. In response, EdTech solutions such as the Mavis Talking Books and Pens have shown potential in supporting education in conflict-affected and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Developing Nations, Community Involvement
Parfait Bihkongnyuy Beri; Logan Cochrane; Sarah Syed Fazlullah – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
This paper delves into the effects of public investment on primary school enrollment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across three decades, from 1990 to 2020. Autoregressive distributed lag models are employed to evaluate their long-term relationship for the whole sample and four distinct sub-samples while also probing the potential…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Expenditures
Khan, Maria Ishaq – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explores the allocation patterns of the official development assistance (ODA) by the World Bank (WB) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in eighteen developing countries of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and South Asia (SA) for the time-period, 1990-2015. Differing perspectives have been…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Technical Assistance, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Lewis, Blane D. – Education Economics, 2023
Education spending mandates are popular around the world, especially among central governments in large, decentralized nations, who find that they may be useful in influencing varied local fiscal behavior. I evaluate Indonesia's education spending mandate policy, which insists that district governments allocate at least 20 percent of their budgets…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
Internationalization at a Distance via Virtual Mobility in the Global South: Advances and Challenges
Simon Ngalomba; Faith Mkwananzi; Patience Mukwambo – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Internationalization of higher education (HE) has increasingly been a subject of interest among scholars, due to developments in the field, such as increased student and staff mobility, inter-university research and teaching partnerships, and rapid technological advancements. Internationalization efforts have mainly focused on the recruitment of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Global Approach, Higher Education, Multicampus Colleges
Kwauk, Christina – Commonwealth of Learning, 2022
The climate crisis presents an unprecedented global challenge, which can also be an opportunity for Commonwealth ministers of education to demonstrate what science-driven, justice-centred, and civic-minded climate leadership can do to help put small island developing states and climate-vulnerable countries on a path to climate resilience and…
Descriptors: Climate, Justice, Social Action, Environmental Education
Imchen, Achila; Ndem, Francis – UNICEF, 2020
Although more children than ever are enrolled in school, far too many are not learning. A key factor that affects quality of education is the availability of public funding. Underinvestment in education can result in several conditions that negatively impact how and what children learn. This advocacy brief presents data and analysis on education…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Poverty, Investment, Public Education
Alfred Simiyu; Stanley Omuterema; Juma Injendi; Philip Mukonvi – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
UNESCO, World Bank and different countries including Kenya have placed education and training as a central tool towards youth employability and realization of the industrialization agenda. Despite the dying industries and increase in demand for employability skill in training, TVET graduates lack employability skills. The study was tasked to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Undergraduate Students, Employment Potential
Okinyi, Rachel A.; Nyerere, Jackline K. A.; Kariuki, Samson I. – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The efficiency of educational institutions is critical in the justification of resource allocation and use. However, some developing countries like Kenya face efficiency challenges regarding resource utilisation and the flow of students through the school system at various levels of education and programs. Past research in Kenya has focused more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Developing Nations, Resource Allocation
Hayes, Anne M.; Elder, Brent C.; Bulat, Jennae – RTI International, 2020
The World Health Organization and World Bank (2011) estimate that there are more than 1 billion people with disabilities in the world. To address this population's diverse needs, the United Nations drafted their Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2006. Article 24 (Education) of the CRPD requires ratifying countries to…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Disability Identification, Change Strategies, Developing Nations
Hussaini, Nilofer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
South Asian economies has witnessed very slow growth over the years and the gap has widened manifold between other nations of Asia particularly East Asian nations and South Asian nations. This paper examines co-integration between the economic growth and reach of higher education in South Asian nations explaining this disparity. The research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Correlation
Cameron, Stuart – Global Partnership for Education, 2023
Many children in GPE partner countries remain out of school or are unable to complete even primary education. This working paper aims to bring attention to the ongoing challenges of reaching universal access to education and completion of at least primary education in many GPE partner countries. [This working paper was written with support and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational Attainment
Mensah, Justice – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
The objective of the paper was to provide an overview of strategic planning and how a Strategic Plan (SP) can be developed and implemented effectively in Higher Education Institution (HEIs) in developing countries for continuous quality improvement. Related literature was reviewed and analysed using the narrative synthesis approach. It was…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Control, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
Baroudi, Sandra – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
Education has become a high-stakes, big-budget item worldwide and is often a major contributor to the country's GDP. Each country's public expenditure on education differs but there is a general recognition that education is a catalyst for country growth and development. In Lebanon, public sector education is viewed by the government as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Budgets, Educational Finance