However, our findings highlight that particularly the children who stay behind when conflict erupts suffer serious gaps in their education, which indicates that there is an additional need for educational support programmes that allow these children to catch-up with those who were not as affected by the war.
Accordingly, any educational programmes for former abductees in northern Uganda must be introduced in tandem with larger educational support programmes that include all war-affected young people.
This is a higher proportion of participants than was found for PGIR in inpatient treatment in schizophrenia in Germany [ 30] as well as for educational or support programmes for relatives of patients with schizophrenia in the United States of America [ 41].
A few studies have found that facility interventions providing routine ANC have minimal beneficial effects to maternal health outcomes, creating a rationale for community-based interventions for pregnant women where educational and support programmes have been successful in increasing/improving skilled delivery, breastfeeding practices and postnatal attendance [ 9- 12].
Each year, managers were required to draw up a plan consisting of practice- or policy-based research projects to be implemented, a number of student internships in practical settings, shared training programmes or educational support for the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes, and finally, new opportunities to meet each other.
Apart from offering psychological help to overcome the trauma of years of jungle warfare, the programme offers educational support.
UNICEF's intention is to assist in the disarmament and re-integration into civilian life of child soldiers, and to provide educational and vocational support programmes in support of a peaceful Liberia.
And they saw how social cash-transfer programmes – which provide educational support and counselling as well as cash – are giving vulnerable adolescent girls a chance to grow up empowered.
The present educational programme has been approved as a "Support Programme for Distinctive University Education" by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology MEXTT).
