This is the second case study in a three-part series from the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) examining household decision-making on the use of child labour in urban and rural Afghanistan. The research focuses on factors beyond poverty — such as debt, social relations, educational opportunities and gender roles — that lead some poor households to use child labour while others do not. The study is based on in-depth interviews with the households of ten village children that ex more...

Roma needs to overcome bureaucratic and discriminatory barriers that keep Roma out of main stream society by ensuring that public policies and services work for Roma. Education, health and employment policies need to be modified to reap the benefits of a prospering Europe.

To address these issues, Roma Education fund has been built and the Czech Republic government recently launched a Social Inclusion Agency, monitoring and evaluation how Roma is faring under such programs is difficult due t more...

This study examines American Indian parents’ perceptions of parent involvement in their children’s education and factors that may encourage or discourage involvement.

A better understanding of American Indian parent involvement was considered as a possible solution to narrow the achievement gap for American Indian students. Five focus groups, consisting of 47 self-selected parents, were conducted in one state in the Central Region. Factors perceived to encourage parent involvement include more...

The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2008 seek to identify the very best organizations rising to the challenges of supporting education across Africa, to highlight their models, and to reward their achievements. The competition offers 50 prizes of $1,000 for the most entrepreneurial education programs in every African country, a top prize of $10,000, and two runners-up prizes of $5,000. At Teach A Man To Fish we believe that if the huge demand for education t more...

The guidebook series aim at promoting safe and effective utilization of digital media for all levels of users including youth, their parents and teachers who are new to the digital media.  There is a growing recognition that digital media education is particularly important in the Information Age, as we increasingly hear about cybercrimes, online privacy risks, and harmful contents on the Internet.  It is no longer enough to develop ICT skills in technical terms. We also need to consi more...

During Sudan’s two decade–long civil war that ended in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, it was estimated that only 14 per cent of students enrolled in primary school were girls. In April 2006 the ‘Go to School’ initiative, a major campaign to rebuild the education system and bring 1.6 million children back to the classroom, was launched by the Government of Southern Sudan with UNICEF support. Although significant progress has since been achieved yet, for every more...

The 2006 edition of the World Bank Essay Competition invited young people from all over the world to reflect on the themes Education – HIV/AIDS – Conflict - Employment and answer the questions: (1) How do you contribute to solving community problems? (2) How do you influence decision-making? This report contains an overview of the competition as well as an analysis of the issues discussed by youth in their essays, key findings and proposals put forward by youth, conclusions and the text of t more...

Over 7,000 Tanzanians Give Their Opinions on livelihood, education, health, governance, infrastructure, well-being, citizen participation, and more. This report is the largest perception survey conducted in Mainland Tanzania to date. 7,879 Tanzanians, aged from 7 to 90 years, from ten mainland regions, were asked for their opinion on aspects of economic progress, their standard of living, quality of and access to economic and social services, and trends in governance.

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Dynamic Youth is a free online monthly magazine, dedicated to Global Youth Development. The framework of this magazine includes all the areas of interest (issues) identified by the UNO under the concept of Global Youth Development and a few additions of local interest. 
The magazine is addressed to the global youth and its main objective is to harness youth energy towards working for Global Peace and Prosperity. The monthly magazines are uploaded on the last working day of the earlier more...

Authors: Publisher: UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education, 2008. Education contributes toward the knowledge and personal skills essential for the prevention of HIV, and the mitigation of the impacts caused by AIDS. Education also helps to overcome the conditions that facilitate the spread of HIV, including poverty, ill health, violence and abuse, particularly against girls and women. Produced by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)'s Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Educa more...