World Learning Publications
World Learning promotes international and intercultural
understanding, democracy, social justice and economic development through
education, training, and field projects around the globe. In the fulfillment
of this mission, we prepare individuals, institutions, and communities
to be inspiring and effective leaders of change.
Each of World Learning's four program units -- The Experiment
in International Living, School for International Training (SIT), World
Learning for International Development and World Learning for Business -- serves
an unique constituency with programs directed to the fulfillment of our
mission.
The publications listed below describe with clarity and focus the work
and people of the enterprise.
The World Learning Odyssey is an opportunity to look
at our worldwide efforts through our people and programs in Africa, the
Americas, Asia, and Europe -- and to thank our supporters for
helping make our work possible. We hope that as you read these pages,
you will develop a better understanding of the many ways we at World Learning
are working to change the world one person, one institution and one community
at a time.
The SIT Occasional Papers Series is dedicated to advancing
knowledge, skills, and awareness of theory and practice in the fields
of intercultural communication, language education, training, and service.
The Series presents items of interest to educators, trainers, practitioners,
researchers, and students. These include essays, articles, reports of
current research, and evaluations, as well as information about SIT, World
Learning, Projects in International Development and Training, The Experiment
in International Living, and the international federation to which they
belong.
SIT Faculty Publication
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- Challenging
Child Labor: Education and Youth Action to Stop the Exploitation of
Children
Editor: John Ungerleider, Ed.D.
School for International Training, 2004
Child labor is an issue that speaks to all young people. In 1999 the
Child Labor Education and Action Project (CLEA) was created as a statewide
pilot project in Vermont to develop models for education and youth action
in response to abusive child labor practices around the world. In CLEA,
students have transformed their concern into action, educating peers
and organizing aid and advocacy projects from New England to Central
and South America. CLEA has forged a model for blending social action
with classroom pedagogy that enables young people to become civic leaders
and agents for change.
World Learning for International Development publications
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World Learning for International Development by email at wlid@worldlearning.org.
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- The Partnership
Study - A study based on the PVO Initiative for the New Independent
States (205Kb)
Study Manager: Bonnie Ricci, Study Team: C. Stark Biddle (United
States), Alexander Borovikh (Russia), Katya Greshnova (Russia), Anastasia
Govidinova (Russia)
Posted 19-Feb-2004
Development agencies, especially bilateral and multilateral donors,
encourage the formation of partnerships between organizations. Perhaps
due to the undeniable potential of synergy, partnerships are valued
both as a means to achieving development objectives and as ends in themselves.
Several recent papers have theorized about the attributes of successful,
lasting partnerships. With the Partnership Study, World Learning contributes
experiential, empirical data on partnership relations. The Partnership
Study is based on relationships established between Russian and U.S.
organizations under the PVO Initiative for New Independent States (PVO/NIS)
Project. That project, managed by World Learning from 1992 to 1997 and
funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
funded 45 partnership grants. The post-project years presented a valuable
opportunity to examine how partnership relations developed or dissipated
over time. The Partnership Study further sought to gain participant
insight into various aspects of partnership dynamics.
- Hearing the Voices of the
Poor: Encouraging Good Governance and Poverty Reduction through Media
Sector Support (115Kb)
by Dr. Ann Hudock
Posted 22-May-2003
To participate effectively in policy formation, citizens and their representatives
need timely, relevant, and clear information and analysis of political
and economic issues. Among society’s institutions, an independent
media is best positioned to disseminate information, educate the public
and policymakers, create a platform for diverse views, and keep the
citizenry informed about socioeconomic developments, especially as they
relate to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process.
- Can the World Bank Enforce
its Own Conditions? (112kb)
The World Bank and the Enforcement Critique of Conditionality
by M. A. Thomas, Foreword by Dr. Ann Hudock
Posted 16-Jan-2003
In this paper, Thomas discusses one widely accepted challenge to conditionality,
which she calls "the enforcement critique." Enforcement critics
posit that conditionality has failed because borrowers do not comply
with conditions. They claim that borrowers do not comply with conditions
because the Bank's own drive to lend prevents it from enforcing conditions
at all. Accordingly, some enforcement critics argue that conditionality
must be abandoned in favor of selectivity, a strategy in which donors
would lend to governments that already have good policies and institutions
in place.
- Assessing the Impact of
Uganda’s Poverty Action Fund:
A Participatory Rural Appraisal in Kamuli District (164kb)
by Andrew Lentz
07-Nov-2002
The study, Assessing the Impact of Uganda’s Poverty Action Fund,
concludes that future iterations of Uganda’s PRSP (Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper) and PAF (Poverty Action Fund) will have a larger impact
on poverty alleviation if the poor are integrated more fully into the
process of policy creation. International and national policymakers
must be willing to temper macro-level assumptions about how people get
out of poverty with micro- or village-level realities. In Uganda, this
would entail investing in smallholder farmers to help them secure their
basic needs so that they can become full participants in promoting economic
growth.
- Feedback on the User's
Guide to Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) (224kb)
29-Aug-2002
World Learning welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the World
Bank on the User's Guide. The principles upon which the PSIA is founded
are commendable and the User Guide is quite thorough in its treatment
of analysis issues and its promotion of eventual local ownership over
the process. However, there are areas where clarification, strengthening
or further thinking may improve not only the product but also its position
in the overall PRSP process.
- Laying the
Foundation for Sustainable Development: Good Governance and the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Paper, by Dr. Ann Hudock (107kb)
28-Aug-2002
This paper argues that poverty reduction requires good governance, and
that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) could provide a strategy for achieving
both goals. To do so, however, international financial institutions
(IFIs) must be refocused to better uphold national democratic processes
and actively support domestically identified steps towards improved
governance.
- Democracy Network Program
in Romania: A Summary (576kb)
© 1999
A summary report highlighting the impact and lessons learned from the
first three phases of World Leaning's Democracy Network Program in Romania
(USAID-funded, 1995-1999)
- Democracy Network Program in Romania: A Summary
- Partnerships Across Borders (© 1997)
The final project report from World Learning's Private Voluntary Organizations'
Initiative for the New Independent States (PVO/NIS) Project (USAID-funded,
1992-1997)
- Building New Leadership in Central Europe (©
1996)
An overview of the achievements of the Participant Training Project
for Europe administered by World Learning as part of the Partners in
International Education and Training consortium (USAID-funded, 1992-1996)
- Non-Governmental Organizations and Natural Resources Management:
Synthesis Assessment of Capacity-Building Issues in Africa
(© 1996)
A review of the experience of the first phase of the PVO-NGO/NRMS Project
managed by World Learning, CARE, and World Wildlife Fund (USAID-funded,
1989-1995)
- Non-Governmental Organizations and Natural Resources Management:
An Assessment of Eighteen African Countries - Executive Summary
(© 1993)
A summary of natural resources management assessments of 18 African
countries conducted in 1992 under the aegis of the PVO-NGO/NRMS Project
managed by World Learning, CARE, and World Wildlife Fund (USAID-funded,
1989-1995)
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