OLPC Rwanda/Background: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:50, 6 August 2010

List available data where easy to find; list but leave blank elsewhere.

Basic education stats (from the UNICEF state of the world's children report)
Census stats relating to children (cf. Wikipedia's country template & World Factbook data)
Government expenses and budgets
International aid investments (focused on education; break out by country/org where available)

Add the following for each of our countries: what major projects are run/sponsored by

UNICEF
WFP
WHO
UNESCO
UNDP
Red Cross/Red Crescent
the Catholic Church
World Vision (they publish stories from war-torn regions and related project data) - on the Mideast and Afghanistan
Save the Children (they're helping run the UN Education Cluster)
USAID
SOS Children's Villages
World Bank (and the Inter-American Development Bank, in LatAm)

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+==Wiki Background info==
+=== Relevant data ===
+List available data where easy to find; list but leave blank elsewhere.
+* Basic education stats (from the UNICEF state of the world's children report)
+* Census stats relating to children (cf. Wikipedia's country template & World Factbook data)
+* Government expenses and budgets
+* International aid investments (focused on education; break out by country/org where available)
+=== Lists of global orgs ===
+Add the following for each of our countries: what major projects are run/sponsored by
+* UNICEF
+* WFP
+* WHO
+* UNESCO
+* UNDP
+* Red Cross/Red Crescent
+* the Catholic Church
+* World Vision (they publish [http://meero.worldvision.org/frontline-focus/childrenofwar.html stories] from war-torn regions and related [http://meero.worldvision.org/documents.php project data]) - on the Mideast and Afghanistan
+* Save the Children (they're helping run the UN Education Cluster)
+* USAID
+* SOS Children's Villages
+* World Bank (and the Inter-American Development Bank, in LatAm)
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rwanda
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators