Suchergebnisse

Published by the Population Council's Islamabad office, this is the first comprehensive survey of Pakistani youth. The report provides an unprecedented view of young people's experiences with and attitudes about education, employment, families, and marriage. The report findings confirm the large differences in the current situation of adolescents and youth, males versus females, from different strata of residence and economic status. Addressing these requires government intervention, changes in attitude, and input from the media, women and youth groups, and members of civil society.

The papers in this book emphasize the rapid social change in Ghana that is raising new questions about the household and the family. The unchanging high fertility rate, and the incidence of female-headed households, which is on the ascendancy, is forcibly brought out in the book, especially in the way it makes women's roles more burdensome, and increases the number of women who are maintaining families on their own even in active marital unions. The papers also seek to discuss the importance of intra-household inequality and resource allocation for targeting and to examine the legal, economic and socio-cultural parameters for investigating the quality and maintenance of the Ghanaian child. (DÜI-Hff)

The Government of Kenya is committed to providing equal education opportunities to all of its citizens. As a result, there has been rapid development in education since independence to ensure that as many children as possible enroll in schools and complete their studies. This study was carried out primarily to get a holistic picture of the school environment for adolescents and other relevant factors that might interfere with the whole learning/teaching process. Special attention was paid to the education of girls and the factors that might lead to their dropping out of school. The study was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Population Council in three districts in Kenya. Many aspects of school education were covered including physical facilities, financing of education, curriculum, teacher-pupil relationships, and teachers' attitudes. This report provides a balanced view of school education provided in the three districts that are representative of the situation elsewhere in the Republic of Kenya.