What are linear statistical models?

E-101 Thursday Section1Thursday, 11th October, 201211 12.30 p.m.Unit 0: Shopping Class Slide #1Roadmap for todayHouse keeping How do the pieces fit together?Close read of the GMREiE programingHow do we apply this stuff?Questions/AOB?

22Housekeeping3Paper I will be over soonNext 2 sections Mid-semester evaluation giving feedback thats useful & can improve practiceLate papers!!!Reading for Fri. divvied up 34

4Creating social value who defines social good? How do we judge impact then? Where are we-5

Source: UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (2010)Early Recovery and Response are together because they want ER to be thought of right from the start so that the interventions are sustainable and transitions are smooth

6Source: Brahm, E. (2003) Conflict Stages

Continuum of conflict Transitions arent always smooth and may repeat stages several times over dont follow a linear path as projected aboveDiff. agencies understand emergencies differently. E.g. Save the Children classifies them as Sudden-Onset Emergency: earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, cyclones, industrial accidents, and war or political reprisals. Slow-Onset Emergency: drought, desertification, deforestation, pest infestations, epidemics, pandemics, and war or political reprisals. Complex Emergency: internal and external dislocation, famine, war and civil breakdown.

7PreparednessResponseEarly RecoveryStock piling (emergency education kits)

Disaster Risk Reduction programs (for natural disasters)

Human Rights Education programsEarly Childhood Development Kits

School in a Box kit

Recreation kits

Temporary learning spaces (under trees, places of worship)

Child Friendly SpacesPeace Education /Human Rights Education

Accelerated Learning programs

Alternative Education programs (Non formal ed. vocational & life skill progs.)

Programs which leverage technology (e.g. Somalia Interactive Radio Instrn. Program)Click on links for more info. ChildAccelerated learning catalytic programs where children who have missed school for long periods of time are exposed to short dosage, high intensity literacy interventions to mainstream them back into the formal schooling system8EiE9Who determines aid strategies in individual countries? Are there explicit and implicit goals?

Why are they doing what theyre doing? What incentives do they have?

What are the practical barriers to development work in such contexts?

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10What is the lifeline of a conflict? What argument would you make for the provision of aid to some of the least supported countries?11

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12Some association based question?13Quality Issueshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H7Au_IG9u8Teacher qualifications education to provide or not? Official validation & accreditation of learning Disproportionate funding - $44 per student in refugee camps < 3% of total spent on a Thai primary school child (2008)Institutional barriers lack of access to quality schooling/labor market entryWhat is the role of education in preventing the proliferation of child soldiers? What is its role in re-integrating child soldiers into society?

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http://currentglobaleducationissues.blogspot.com/

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