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The Research Team For full details on the country and overview studies please see the appendix. <strong>Synthesis</strong> report Robert Palmer Ruth Wedgwood Rachel Hayman Kenneth King Neil Thin Country studies Robert Palmer (Ghana) Jandhyala Tilak (India) Kenneth King (Kenya) Rachel Hayman (Rwanda) Ruth Wedgwood (Tanzania) Salim Akoojee and Simon McGrath (S<strong>out</strong>h Africa) Overview studies Kenneth King Robert Palmer Jandhyala Tilak Coordination Kenneth King Robert Palmer Neil Thin The Research Team DFID i
<strong>Educating</strong> <strong>out</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Poverty</strong>? A <strong>Synthesis</strong> <strong>Report</strong> on Ghana, India, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and S<strong>out</strong>h Africa Preface and Acknowledgements This Research Monograph is one <strong>of</strong> the final <strong>out</strong>comes <strong>of</strong> a process <strong>of</strong> collaborative research conducted with the support <strong>of</strong> the Department for International Development (DFID) over the period from April 2004 to May 2006. A strong concern over the two year period has been with the dissemination <strong>of</strong> our findings into different research and policy constituencies, both in the North and the S<strong>out</strong>h. The researchers were anxious to ensure that this activity <strong>of</strong> engagement with end-users took place through<strong>out</strong> the whole period, and was not something that only happened once the project was finished. Thus, a first <strong>out</strong>come <strong>of</strong> the research was the organisation <strong>of</strong> a special panel on our research theme in the Annual Conference <strong>of</strong> the Development Studies Association, just seven months after the work had started. This panel provided a first translation <strong>of</strong> our initial research into a policy audience, since the other members <strong>of</strong> the panel included Desmond Bermingham <strong>of</strong> DFID, and Kevin Watkins, Editor <strong>of</strong> the Human Development <strong>Report</strong>. This first paper was published, in 2005, in a special issue <strong>of</strong> the Journal <strong>of</strong> International Development, supported by DFID, appropriately entitled ‘Bridging Research and Policy’, and also appeared in a book <strong>of</strong> similar title edited by Court and Maxwell (2006). The six country studies were all completed in near to final draft by March 2005. It was possible for them all to be available as background papers, by the time <strong>of</strong> the Centre <strong>of</strong> African Studies’ (CAS) International Conference in Edinburgh in April 2005. This CAS Conference was itself deliberately oriented around the key themes <strong>of</strong> the DFID project, and hence the published volume from the CAS conference, Revisiting Education, Training and Work in Africa (CAS, October 2005) set the DFID research on five African countries within a larger African context. Immediately after the CAS conference, there was an interaction with high level policy makers from Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and India, in order to get early feedback on the research from these senior members <strong>of</strong> the policy community. Over the summer <strong>of</strong> 2005, the lengthy, individual country studies were versioned into academic papers for what was a crucial panel <strong>of</strong> the UKFIET’s Oxford International Conference on Education and Development that September. This panel was entitled ‘<strong>Educating</strong> and Training <strong>out</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Poverty</strong>’, and thus was organised in large part around our DFID research theme. It attracted much interest from researchers and policy makers, and the panel eventually had some 20 papers addressing similar issues to our own. By good fortune, all the DFID country studies that were presented in Oxford were also accepted by the International Journal <strong>of</strong> Educational Development; which means that during 2007, the DFID country studies will be available in one <strong>of</strong> the most widely circulated comparative education journals, worldwide. 1 Conscious that most policy makers whether in agencies or in our six selected countries do not have the time to read lengthy country studies or academic papers, we versioned our country studies into short, sharp Policy Briefs. These are on our website (http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/research/projects.html) along with the country studies and the academic versions <strong>of</strong> the papers. But packages containing the Policy Briefs, the Executive Summaries <strong>of</strong> our country studies and the country studies themselves have been sent to carefully selected policy makers in each <strong>of</strong> our research countries. There has been a very positive feedback from this process. The same package was also sent to the DFID advisors’ meeting in Nairobi in early 2006. ii DFID
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