However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage of learning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.
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The Sibert report - as it became known - revealed a shortage of staff, lack of nursing support and poor access to medical records.
An unnamed worker said the shortage of toilets, a lack of a medical centre and water stations were an "absolute disgrace".
This shortage does not bespeak a lack of bold innovation among entrepreneurs.
The trend to quotas is most visible in countries where a legal leg-up can overcome prejudice, in the form of violence, shortage of cash, or lack of media attention.
Criticism also came from Glasgow SNP MSP Sandra White who lodged a petition at the Scottish Parliament which condemned "the shortage of information and severe lack of public consultation" over the proposals.
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Ricardo Sanchez wrote a memo in December 2003 in which he complained to top Army officials about a shortage of spare parts, lack of protective gear and poor readiness rates for Army weapons in Iraq.
But we will never know, since the shortage of American troops and the lack of postwar planning made disaster inevitable.
The top three reasons were a shortage of available applicants, a lack of the hard skills required among applicants and lack of experience among potential hires.
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Far scarier are the fountains of red ink spurting from thousands of small businesses plagued by lack of demand, shortage of credit and crushing health care costs.
In countries such as Tanzania, where nearly 4, 500 women die annually from the disease, the problem is exacerbated by an acute shortage of medical experts and a lack of quality screening services, especially in rural areas.
Government services are not immune to budget cuts, lack of resources, and shortage of funds.
There is plenty of competitive banter and no shortage of pace, albeit an endearing lack of the usual back-up.
Small businesses are hampered less by a lack of loans than a shortage of customers, argues Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a trade group.
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis says that the troika's diagnosis of the labor market is "utterly erroneous" and that the greatest challenge for employers is not a lack of cheap labor but a shortage of demand for their products.
As demand grows this lack of investment eventually leads to a shortage which improves pricing and leads to regained profitability.
And as for the lack of investment, the problem is not shortage of money, but keeping the plenty which exists from fleeing the country.
Even in an era marked by a lack of growth for dance, there is no shortage of dancers heading toward the field.
In Sirte itself the complaints are rife as its people try to get back to normal - from a lack of electricity and clean water, to a critical shortage of bank notes.
Both the distance from America and the lack of genuine innovators are exacerbated by a third obstacle: a shortage of venture capitalists.
Naturally, there is no shortage of rumors surrounding the next Apple iPhone, and given the handset's current lack of LTE connectivity, the iPhone 4S is certainly showing its age.
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