The European Union's Youth in Action Program website features descriptions of previously funded programs in order to facilitate the sharing of best practices and ideas. Featured projects range from peace-building to youth parliament documentaries, Roma inclusion and much more.

WHO's Global School Health Initiative, launched in 1995, seeks to mobilise and strengthen health promotion and education activities at the local, national, regional and global levels. The Initiative is designed to improve the health of students, school personnel, families and other members of the community through schools.
The goal of WHO's Global School Health Initiative is to increase the number of schools that can truly be called 'Health-Promoting Schools'. Although definitions will vary, de more...

Across the world children are denied their human rights, including for example, their right to education. They are recruited into armed forces. They are subjected to the death penalty, are disappeared, are punished by cruel and inhumane methods and suffer many other forms of violence. Child soldiers - Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of children under 18 have been affected by armed conflict. They are recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a variety of other a more...

The World Bank recognizes that child labor is one of the most devastating consequences of persistent poverty and has adopted a clear position to help reduce harmful child labor through its ongoing poverty reduction efforts and new initiatives. It is housed in the Human Development Hub's Social Protection Unit. Since its establishment, the Global Child Labor Program (GCLP) has functioned as the Bank’s focal point for child labor activities, training, capacity building and policy.

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November 20, 2008 -- In a first-ever joint statement, more than thirty winners of the Nobel Peace Prize today called for urgent action to implement quality education and build peace in conflict-affected countries. The Nobel Laureates, including President Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, urged world leaders to pay more attention to the educational needs of more the 37 million children who live in fragile states and are unable to go to school.

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The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children paints a detailed picture of the nature, extent and causes of violence against children and proposes recommendations on how to prevent and respond to it. The study was developed under the leadership of Prof. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, the independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General and with the support of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an more...

This is a campaign of Roots and Shoots, the youth program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Campaign Concept - This campaign will help Roots & Shoots members in Tanzania start five new tree nurseries while encouraging groups in the United States and other countries to take action by planting native trees in their own communities. Groups in the United States will seek sponsorships for every tree they plant. This sponsorship money will support the establishment of Roots & Shoots tree nurseries in Tan more...

'Roots creep underground everywhere and make a firm foundation. Shoots seem very weak, but to reach the light, they can break open brick walls. Imagine that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet. Hundreds of thousands of roots & shoots, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world, can break through these walls. We CAN change the world. ' Jane Goodall.
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The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and partners are requesting funding proposals from women’s rights and HIV/AIDS coalitions in southern and eastern Africa with the aim of developing submissions to the Global Fund that address the vulnerabilities of women and girls.

In recent years developing countries have expanded their government education systems in an attempt to meet the Millennium Development Goals on education by 2015. One consequence has been a dramatic growth in low-cost private education institutions, which are increasingly being seen as a popular alternative to the public education system.
Using independent first-hand research, this study investigates the low-cost private education sector in India, Nigeria and Uganda. The contributors explain t more...