General Resources

Strategies for Engaging Adolescents in Situation Assessment and Analysis

A toolkit for Policymakers and practitioners Andrew Robertson For UNICEF and the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) October 2001 Write to the Commonwealth Youth Programme at the Commonwealth Secretariat for a copy of this paper or look on the UNICEF Intranet site under Girls' Education.

Children as Community Researchers

Roger Hart (http://www.cerg1.org) - an internet book for teachers involved in completing research with children

http://www.unicef.org/teachers/

Seeing For Yourself - Research handbook for Girls' Education in Africa

Eileen Kane EDI Learning Resources Series 1995 - This handbook is designed for people with little or no training in social research who are concerned about important issues related to girls' education in Africa. The reader will learn how to gather data for identifying problems and possible interventions, assess resources for action, plan projects, and understand and evaluate the work of other researchers.

http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=200874

From Information to Action: Tools for Improving Community Participation in Education

Eileen Kane and Joyce Wolf, AED and AIR (ABEL document) - This is a computer programme in CD-Rom form, a toolkit that explains how to work with communities to create local involvement in basic education, targetted at planners, administrators and educators.

Order Number: PN-ACH-912

Also available at: http://www.dec.org

Planning for Community Participation in Education

Joyce Wolf, Eileen Kane and Bracd Strickland, AED and CAII, 1997 (ABEL document) - This manual and computer diskette presents information in an interlinked fashion to assist policy and program planners in making informed decisions about community participation in education, related to goals, strategies and context.

Order Number: English PN-ACA-364

Also available at : http://www.dec.org

Involving Communities: Participation in the Delivery of Education Programs

Andrea Rugh and Heather Bossert, CAII, 1998 (ABEL document) - This paper assesses the effectiveness of community participation in education delivery, around several well-know international community education projects/programmes from several continents.

Order Number: PN-ACC-721

Involving Communities: A Companion Guide

This document is a companion to "Involving Communities" and a summary of the process used in Ghana to apply community involvement concepts. The document helps educators involve local communities in improving education for their children. It includes suggested activities for community involvement sessions at the village, district and national levels.

CAII, 2000 Order Number: PN-ACH-065

Also available at: http://www.dec.org

You can order these documents free of charge from CDIE/DEXS in the US. E-mail: ocorder@dec.cdie.org