EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)‚ is a skills development programme initiated by the Industrial Training Fund (ITF)‚ in 1973 to bridge the gap between theory and practice among students of engineering and technology in Institutions of Higher Learning in Nigeria. It provides for on-the-job practical experience for students as they are exposed to work methods and techniques in handling equipment and machinery that may not be available in their Institutions
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libraries and community programs and allow children to be decision-makers. All the world’s countries except for Somalia in Africa and USA have pledged to follow the convention. The 8 Millennium goals. In 2000‚ the leaders of the countries agreed on the Millennium Declaration. They set up 8 goals to be achieved by 2015. This is the chance for the world to become a better place. Extreme poverty and hunger must be halved. Universal primary education must be achieved Girls and women must be
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dangers posed by early pregnancies‚ and to inform them about reporductive health in general. She added that the teen pregnancy concern‚ if not given focus‚ can derail and affect the country’s program targets with respect to its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At 53 births per 1‚000 women aged between 15 and 19‚ the teenage pregnancy rate in the Philippines is the highest among Asean’s six major economies‚ the United Nations Population Fund’s 2011 annual report says. Government statistics
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In emergencies they provide urgent relief to communities and nations threatened by disrupted water supplies and disease. All UNICEF WASH (water‚ sanitation and hygiene) programmes were designed to contribute to the Millennium Development Goal for water and sanitation. The goal - to halve‚ by 2015‚ the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water - has been achieved globally‚ but the same target for sanitation is so far off track that it is unlikely to be met by 2015. 3. UNICEF’s first
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“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500‚000 for every enemy soldier killed‚ and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.” This is a famous quote said by Martin Luther King‚ Junior. This goes to show that there has been insufficient attention given to the pressing issue of poverty. Rich nations have always been giving aid to poor nations‚ but there have been arguments of whether rich nations should continue to provide aid for poor nations since it reap negative consequences and
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What is meant by developmentalism: what is its impact on global politics? Developmentalism Most global political agendas and concerns relate to development even if it is indirectly as these developing countries are so reliant on the policies and implications of decisions made on a global level. This essay will examine foreign aid in the current global political state. This is adapted from the question ‘What is meant by developmentalism: what is it’s impact on global politics?’. Throughout this
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its priorities. • With a population of 140 million‚ Bangladesh has only 1.4 million registered income taxpayers and 300‚000 businesses registered for value-added tax‚ with total tax revenue amounting to just 7.4% of GDP. In light of growing development spending needs‚ an extremely
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Bangladesh in 1973. Some nine years later the European Commission established an office in Dhaka‚ which was upgraded to a full-fledged Delegation in 1989. Under the EC-Bangladesh Co-operation Agreement of 2001‚ co-operation now covers trade and economic development‚ human rights‚ good governance and the environment. Today more than half of Bangladesh’s total exports go to the EU (56% in 2007). Bangladesh benefits from the most preferential trade arrangement granted unilaterally by the EU to LDCs‚ known as
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been adopted in at least 30 countries as of 2008‚ with further ones expected to follow suit in the coming years (WB‘s CCT Webpage). The map below shows these country-adopters. CCTs are grounded on the principle that human capital accumulation is a development vehicle which can be achieved by providing money to poor households‚ often to women‚ on conditions that they ensure children‘s regular attendance in school‚ accompany them to health clinics‚ and participate in classes and workshops on topics related
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