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• Overcoming Institutional and Governance Challenges in Environmental Management : Case Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean Region

  World Bank (Washington, DC, 2014-01-17)

  The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity and valuable crops, and also harbors the world s greatest carbon sink in the Amazon. The purpose of the series is to contribute to the global knowledge exchange on innovation in environmental and water resources management and the pursuit of greener and more inclusive growth. The series addresses issues relevant to the region s environmental sustainability agenda from water resources management to environmental health, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, pollution management, environmental institutions and governance, ecosystem services, environmental financing, irrigation and climate change and their linkages to development and growth. The author presents three successful case studies. The first case study describes how Colombia designed and implemented an air quality management program based on public awareness, evidence-based policy design, and political commitment to reform. The second case study examines how Brazil is promoting access to environmental justice through the public prosecutors model. A third case study shows how the modeling of climate change and monitoring of glacial retreat in the Andean countries is fostering decision making to address the increasingly important challenge of climate change adaptation.
• Turkey - Education Sector Study : Sustainable Pathways to an Effective, Equitable and Efficient Education System for Preschool through Secondary School Education, Executive Summary

  World Bank (Washington, DC, 2012-06-12)

  This Education Sector Study (ESS) is the
 World Bank's response to the need for a comprehensive
 study of Turkey's education system, in light of the
 dramatic changes that are sure to alter the country's
 social and economic landscape over the next decade. The
 study was prepared in association with the Education Reform
 Initiative of the Istanbul Policy Center on the basis of
 research and dialogue with a wide array of education
 stakeholders and actors. The overall objective of the ESS is
 to provide an assessment of current challenges to the
 education system in Turkey and identify policy options that
 can complement the country's existing pre-tertiary
 education strategy. Volume one provides a complete
 description of challenges, conclusions, and policy options
 for the reform of pre-school, primary, and secondary
 education. It includes an Annex that summarizes the research
 studies and policy notes commissioned to inform the report.
 Volume II is a collection of the complete research studies
 and policy notes commissioned for the ESS report.
• Higher Education Quality Assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa : Status, Challenges, Opportunities, and Promising Practices

  Materu, Peter (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012-05-31)

  This report maps and assesses the status
 and practice of higher education quality assurance (QA) in
 Sub-Saharan Africa. It centers on quality assurance in
 degree-granting tertiary institutions, but also
 incorporates, where available, information on other types of
 tertiary education. A main finding is that structured
 national-level quality assurance processes in African higher
 education are a very recent phenomenon and that most
 countries face major capacity constraints. The research for
 this report was conducted between November 2005 and December
 2006 through document and web reviews, interviews and six
 detailed country case studies covering Cameroon, Ghana,
 Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. This study
 has two main purposes, one being to establish a baseline on
 the status of quality assurance in higher education in
 Africa. A second is to provide information to education
 policymakers, stakeholders (including employers) and
 development partners involved in tertiary education in
 Africa that may assist them with identification and
 prioritization of capacity enhancement needs for quality improvement.