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01 February 2017

Improving Education Participation

This handbook was developed to support countries and stakeholders currently developing policies, strategies and initiatives at national, district, community and school levels to prevent and respond to the issue of out-of-school children and dropout. UNICEF believes that each and every child should enrol timely, le...

Out-of-School Children in Ukraine 2016

This report outlines the results of the survey “Out of School Children in Ukraine – A Study on the Scope and Dimensions of the Problem with Recommendations for Action”, which was conducted in January 2016 by GfK Ukraine, with the support of the UNICEF Country Office in Ukraine. The necessity of this study was dete...

01 January 2014

Education Equity Now!

All children and adolescents have the right to quality education. Yet this report finds that in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS), which is mostly home to middle income economies, 2.5 million children of basic school age and 1.6 million children of pre-pr...

01 December 2013

Tajikistan Country Study 2013

This report presents the background, methodology, findings, recommendations and conclusions of a study on out-of-school children in Tajikistan. The project was undertaken by UNICEF Tajikistan, between March and December 2011. The study is based on a comprehensive review of the literature, completed through consult...

01 December 2012

Romania Country Study 2012

Building on a joint report which introduced the typology of out-of-school children and disaggregated data analysis in 2005, UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) launched at the beginning of 2010 a Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children in order to stimulate more complex and more informed and m...

Turkey Country Study 2012

The reforms and efforts that brought basic education in Turkey to its current state, both in terms of access and quality, present valuable lessons for policy makers both in Turkey and in other countries. Today, the ratio of children who successfully complete basic education today is higher than it has ever been in...

01 January 2012

Kyrgyzstan Country Study 2012

This report is prepared for the Kyrgyz Republic as part of the Global Out-of-School Children Initiative (OOSCI). UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) launched a Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children at the beginning of 2010 with a goal to introduce a more systematic approach to address the pr...