Currently, countries across the world are applying policies designed to combat COVID-19 pandemic, such as lockdowns, international travel restrictions, subsectoral closures, and adjustments in public transportation. Although these restrictions can be effective controlling epidemiological dynamics, they also need assessed terms of their acceptability by populations. The preferences populations s...

There is a lack of consensus over fundamental issues in public mental health in England. A move away from poorly evidenced 'well-being' policy approaches is needed. The authors have developed a more inclusive model using the World Health Organization's approach to public mental health. Public mental health policy makers must acknowledge the importance of psychiatry within the field.

This qualitative study proffers ways of reframing the policy trajectory for inclusive education in Malawi. The involved a document review policies and strategies in-depth semi-structured interviews with mainstream teachers at secondary school results from show that framing regarding pedagogy as an educational practice is influenced solely by learners' cognitive proficiencies. However, analysis ...

This paper examines the implications for regional policy of new research on role played by a failure in ‘capacity to aspire’ [Appadurai, A. (2004), ‘The capacity aspire’, Rao, V. and Walton, M. (eds), Culture Public Action, Washington, DC: World Bank.] perpetuating disadvantage traps. After brief review magnitude challenge that needs confront, it provides summary theoretical empirical literatur...

This policy paper argues that school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a global concern preventing children, especially girls, exercising their right to a safe, inclusive and quality education. The paper calls for a systematic and harmonized approach to identify, monitor and understand SRGBV, as well as strong policy interventions to develop targeted solutions to address the problem effe...