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01 January 2021

West and Central Africa Regional Report 2021

Ten years after the launch of the Global Initiative for Out-of-School Children (OOSCI), it should be noted that while progress has been made in the fight against school exclusion, the scale of what remains to be done is still considerable, in West and Central Africa in particular. Between 2010 and 2018 the rate of...

Learning Against the Odds

The fundamental right to education for every child is clearly acknowledged in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which marks its 30th anniversary this year. Thanks to the rapid advances in education provision over the past few decades in East Asia and Pacific, there has been considerable progress in ...

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...

01 November 2016

Understanding the Processes of Educational Exclusion within 15 to 20 Year Old Population

This document aims to study the educational exclusion of adolescents and young people between the ages from 15 to 20 in the Latin America and the Caribbean region; to know and understand these processes in order to back up the design and implementation of important public policies for the attainment of a full incl...

Development of Alternatives for Estimating Population Demand on the Educational System by Simple Age

During the last decades of the twentieth century most of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have approached – through diverse policies – the goal of universal primary education. Based on these achievements, they have progressively emphasized policies towards the extension of compulsory educati...

08 October 2015

Eastern and Southern Africa Out-of-School Regional Workshop

Globally, there are approximately 59 million children of primary school age and 65 million adolescents out-of-school. In the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), those figures are 12 million children of primary school age and 10 million of lower secondary school age out-of-school. To stimulate a substantial ...

03 September 2015

Education under fire

As the violence gripping Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Libya continues to deepen, and with no end in sight to other, more enduring conflicts in Palestine and Sudan, there is every reason to fear that the huge number of children already out of school across the region will continue to grow. With more than 13 million child...

Educate All Girls and Boys in South Asia

Getting children to school is only the start. The journey of completing a full cycle of basic education is as difﬁcult for many children in South Asia. Being in school is also not a guarantee that children are learning. This report highlights the progress that has been achieved since 1999 as well as outlining the ...

Effective Interventions Aimed at Reaching Out-of-School Children

This paper aggregates the academic literature reviewing and reporting interventions for out-of-school children (OOSC) around the world to serve as a guide for potential interventions in South Asia and elsewhere. August 2015

31 December 2014

Disabilities and Out-of-School Children

Due to demographic, health and environmental factors, the number of children affected disability appears to be on the increase, particularly in the most poor people of the world. This high concentration of children with disabilities in countries like those in the region of West and Central Africa as well as their ...

31 December 2014

Child Labour and Out-of-School Children

Based on an analysis of the latest household surveys conducted in countries in the region, the present study aims to conduct a detailed analysis of the situation in terms of educational exclusion, child labour and the relationship between the two. This will serve as a foundation for regional recommendations on how...

01 October 2014

Middle East and North Africa Regional Report 2014

These are the findings from studies carried out in nine MENA countries within the framework of the Out-of-School Children Initiative. They paint a complex picture of overlapping challenges that will require all of us – governments, the UN, NGOs and the international community, along with specialists in the fields ...